AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

engineers need to understand that their profession embeds ethical choices into products that make life-changing decisions,

Subtle psychological details are difficult to infer through mere logic and rationalization. To help fill in the emotional portrait of the characters in our stories, we looked to history and drew inspiration from similar world-changing events that have occurred in the past. To stimulate our readers’ imagination and capacity to conceptualize alternat

We wished to represent how individuals from disparate cultures and industries and with different identities would react to the future shock induced by AI.

I believe that, before setting pen to paper for each story, the key is always to orient the story in the history of its genre and a greater social context.

Kai-Fu’s analysis serves as the string that connects the soaring kite of imagination to the graspable reel of reality.

the greatest value of science fiction is not providing answers, but rather raising questions.

with every future we wish to create, we must first learn to imagine it.

AI engineers should be trained with a set of standard principles—like an adapted physician’s Hippocratic oath;

in order for deep learning to function well, the following are required: massive amounts of relevant data, a narrow domain, and a concrete objective function to optimize.