Technologist and Author
Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese American computer scientist, venture capitalist, and former executive at Apple, Microsoft, and Google. He is the author of AI Superpowers and the founder of Sinovation Ventures, a leading Chinese technology venture capital firm.
by Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee, a former president of Google China and venture capitalist, draws on his unique experience in both American and Chinese tech ecosystems to argue that China is poised to overtake the US in AI deployment thanks to its vast data reserves, aggressive entrepreneurs, and supportive government policies. He warns that AI-driven automation could displace 40 percent of world jobs within fifteen years and proposes a human-centreed economic restructuring built around compassion and service.
The books Kai-Fu Lee references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Erik Brynjolfsson
Brynjolfsson and McAfee argue digital technologies are entering an exponential phase where machines complement and displace labour in new ways. More wealth but wider inequality defines the tension.
by Nick Bostrom
Bostrom warns that once artificial intelligence surpasses human cognition, controlling it becomes nearly impossible. The real danger isn't malice but misaligned goals pursued with superhuman competence.
by Max Tegmark
Tegmark explores how artificial superintelligence could reshape civilisation. The central question is not whether AI will surpass us, but whether we can steer it towards beneficial outcomes.
by Yuval Noah Harari
Harari argues that humanity's next project is upgrading itself - through bioengineering, AI, and data - into something post-human. The question is who controls that transformation.
Who Kai-Fu draws from, and who draws from Kai-Fu — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.