AI 2041: Ten Visions for our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan pub. Currency Predicting the future has its (literary) risks. In his groundbreaking cyberpunk/artificial intelligence novel Neuromancer (1984), William Gibson wrongly foresaw such a great shortage of RAM that a mere 3MB would be motive for murder. This was several orders of magnitude wrong – but speculative fiction has also imagined sub­marines, wireless earphones and, as co-author Kai-Fu Lee points out, the Star Trek holodeck. AI 2041 is a collaboration between Lee, an investor, the former head of Google China and author of AI Superpowers (2018), and science...