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Historian and bestselling author Yuval Noah Harari has called science fiction “the most important artistic genre” of our time.

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

While humans lack AI’s ability to analyze huge numbers of data points at the same time, people have a unique ability to draw on experience, abstract concepts, and common sense to make decisions.

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.

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

AI, like most technologies, is inherently neither good nor evil.

From the modern submarine to the laser gun, and from mobile phones to CRISPR, scientists will readily admit they got direct inspirations from fiction. Imagination indeed shapes the world.

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