A review by teenagelightning
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan

2.0

This is a good concept for a book and theoretically right up my alley; a blend of fiction and non-fiction, using short stories accompanied by non-fiction exploration of the topic to educate people about the potential and dangers of AI.

It's a shame then that the stories weren't good. The characters were shallow, the plots contrived - they were very obviously trying to Explore A Concept rather than being organically inspired from the concepts. Don't expect Ted Chiang here.

The non-fiction accompaniments didn't do much for me either, because I'm already pretty interested in AI so I was familiar with what they were saying. This book would be better for someone who doesn't know much about AI, and would probably be best as as a text to discuss in a course on AI Ethics.