AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee

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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.

Published:: 2018
Pages:: 272

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In this collection, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order references 4 other books.

It draws on The Second Machine Age, Superintelligence and Life 3.0.

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Lee directly engages with Brynjolfsson and McAfee's thesis from The Second Machine Age about technological unemployment, arguing their estimates are too conservative given China's rapid AI adoption and the speed of deep-learning advances

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The Second Machine Age

by Erik Brynjolfsson

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Discusses Bostrom's existential-risk framing from Superintelligence but argues the more immediate threat is not superintelligent AI but narrow AI displacing workers at scale within one generation

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Superintelligence

by Nick Bostrom

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References Tegmark's Life 3.0 scenario taxonomy when distinguishing between near-term narrow AI applications driving the US-China race and longer-term artificial general intelligence concerns

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Life 3.0

by Max Tegmark

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Engages with Harari's Homo Deus argument about the rise of a useless class by proposing that displaced workers can transition to human-care service jobs that AI cannot replicate

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Homo Deus

by Yuval Noah Harari

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The Second Machine Age

Superintelligence

Life 3.0

Homo Deus

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The Innovator's Dilemma

Good to Great

Thinking, Fast and Slow

The Master Algorithm

The Selfish Gene

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