AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

　　AI時代已經開啟。在我們面前，機遇與挑戰並存。
　　如AI與人性特質如何共存等諸多課題，都需要深入探索和思考。──李開復

　　想要創造什麼樣的未來，就從想像那樣的未來開始。──陳楸帆

　　．AI能否幫助人類從根源上預防疫情？
　　．如何應對未來的職場挑戰？
　　．在AI主導的世界中如何確保文化多樣性？
　　．如何教導下一代適應人類與AI共存的新社會？
　　．面對AI帶來的社會問題所隱含的人性拉鋸戰，我們如何抉擇？

　　AI能創造前所未有的財富與價值，能徹底改變醫學和教育，能提升人類的工作、娛樂和交流的品質，能把人類從日常工作中解放出來。

　　不過，AI也會帶來無數挑戰和風險，例如演算法偏見、安全隱患、深度偽造、對隱私資料的侵犯、對自主武器的使用，以及取代人類員工等。不過，這些情況並非AI主導造成的，其根源在於惡意或草率使用AI技術的幕後黑手。

　　全球AI領軍人物李開復最關切的是，AI正飛速發展，人類的未來將通往何方？他放眼20年後的新世界，架構10幅「技術藍圖」，再由科幻小說家陳楸帆據此構思10個故事。虛構的敘事與非虛構的科技評論完美結合，展現20年後被AI 技術深刻改變的未來世界。

　　歡迎來到2041！
 
(中文簡介來自天下文化出版《AI 2041：預見10個未來新世界》書籍介紹)

　　How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?
 
　　“This inspired collaboration between a pioneering technologist and a visionary writer of science fiction offers bold and urgent insights.”—Yann LeCun, winner of the Turing Award; chief AI scientist, Facebook
 
　　“Amazingly entertaining . . . Lee and Chen take us on an immersive trip through the future. . . . Eye-opening.”—Mark Cuban

　　AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment. In liberating us from routine work, however, AI will also challenge the organizing principles of our economic and social order. Meanwhile, AI will bring new risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up—both to AI’s radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it.

　　In this provocative, utterly original work, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. In ten gripping short stories, they introduce readers to an array of eye-opening 2041 settings, such as:

　　• In San Francisco, the “job reallocation” industry emerges as deep learning AI causes widespread job displacement
　　• In Tokyo, a music fan is swept up in an immersive form of celebrity worship based on virtual reality and mixed reality
　　• In Mumbai, a teenage girl rebels when AI’s crunching of big data gets in the way of romance
　　• In Seoul, virtual companions with perfected natural language processing (NLP) skills offer orphaned twins new ways to connect
　　• In Munich, a rogue scientist draws on quantum computing, computer vision and other AI technologies in a revenge plot that imperils the world

　　By gazing toward a not-so-distant horizon, AI 2041 offers urgent insights into our collective future—while reminding readers that, ultimately, humankind remains the author of its destiny.