An afterthought to Lee Kai-Fu’s ‘AI Superpowers’

AI’s coexistence with humans and why we should all be concerned

How far are we from complete AI coexistence?

Note: This article is largely inspired by Lee Kai-Fu’s ‘AI Superpowers’, along with some of my personal thoughts. Many ideas are abstracted from his book and any similarities found are intentional.

As a student, practitioner and advocate of AI, I’m fortunate to get a glimpse into how the AI technology works beneath the surface, and to a certain extent also allows me to imagine what kind of possibilities we have with AI not only in the present but also in the future.

To the man on the street, AI is seen as a technology that has the possibility to replace humans in different areas of work, and some of this displacement has already begun. What they don’t see, however, is the extent at which humans and society at large will and can be affected by the AI revolution, just like how the industrial revolution and internet boom changed the way we lived dramatically.

What scares me is the possibility that Hao Jingfang’s dystopian world of the so-called ‘AI elites’ versus the rest of the world (what she deemed ‘useless’ people) [2] might become reality if people continue to be oblivious of what AI really is and what it can do.

As a futurist, here’s what I think everyone should be aware of when it comes to transitioning into an AI-driven…