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Kai-Fu Lee is CEO of Sinovation Ventures, and former president of Google China. He’s also the author of the New York Times bestseller AI Superpowers.

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Kate Darling works as a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. With a focus on ethics, law, and economics, she’s interested in how technology converges with society and the challenges lawmakers and the public will face in the future.

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Francis de Véricourt is a professor of management science and director of the Center for Decisions, Models, and Data at Berlin’s European School of Management and Technology.

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Genius Makers (2021) tells the story of the current race to develop artificial intelligence. This expansive report covers the sprawling history of AI, from its early development to today’s current controversies.

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Cade Metz is a reporter at the New York Times specializing in robotics, artificial intelligence, and other digital technology issues. Previously, he was a senior staff writer with Wired magazine.

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How to Future (2020) arms you with a structured approach to prepare for multiple futures, as a business and an individual. In a fast-moving world where so much seems unpredictable, we can orient ourselves toward plausible future scenarios by recognizing changing trends in information – and using these observations to inform strategic decisions. In a business setting, effective futuring can mean the difference between relevance and obsolescence.

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Scott Smith is the founder and managing partner of Changeist, a consulting company that conducts futures research for businesses, NGOs, and governments. Changeist’s clients include Nokia, NASA, UNICEF, and the UK government. This is his first book.

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Xiaowei Wang is a filmmaker, artist, and writer specializing in the intersection of technology and society. They are the creative director of Logic magazine and their work has appeared in the New York Times, and on the BBC, CNN, and VICE.

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Architects of Intelligence (2018) is a collection of interviews with researchers, scientists, businessmen, and thinkers at the forefront of digital technology and artificial intelligence. There isn’t much agreement to be found among them about how fast the technology is developing, how soon we’ll all be driving autonomous cars, or the possibility of a breakthrough in general intelligence. But we can rest assured that AI technology is destined to shake the core of society, the economy, and life itself in unimaginable and unprecedented ways.

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Martin Ford is a futurist, public speaker, and author who has written on AI and digital technology for many publications, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. His other books include The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future and the bestselling Rise of the Robots: Technology and Threat of a Jobless Future, which won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year.

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Ainissa Ramirez is a materials scientist and science communicator. She has written for Time, Scientific American, the American Scientist, and Forbes. She makes regular appearances on PBS's SciTech Now.

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New Dark Age (2018) investigates the fundamental paradox of our digital age: as new technologies allow us to gather more and more data on our world, we understand less and less of it. Examining the history, politics and geography of the complex digital network we are enmeshed in, James Bridle sheds new light on the central issues of our time, from climate change to wealth inequality to post-factual politics, and explains how we can live with purpose in an era of uncertainty.

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The AI Economy tackles the most pressing economic questions surrounding the rise of Artificial Intelligence. How will the development and spread of smart machines’ age affect our jobs, wages and work hours? How will it impact investment, interest rates and inequality? Acclaimed economist Roger Bootle applies his knowledge of history, technology and macroeconomics to investigate how the fourth industrial revolution will transform the global economy.

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Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, is the Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. In 2009, Time magazine named him as one of the world’s most influential people. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015, Christakis also runs the Human Nature Lab, where his team researches a wide variety of social behavior.

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Where Will Man Take Us? (2019) explores how, thanks to rapid technological advances, humanity has come to stand on the cusp of a great leap forward. In just decades, our economy, health and perhaps even our biology will be transformed; these blinks explore these developments and the difficult ethical and societal questions they pose.

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Atul Jalan is the founder of Manthan Systems, a successful AI data analytics software firm based in Bangalore, India. Long fascinated by technology, Jalan takes a passionate interest in artificial intelligence, big data analytics and the coming machine age.

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