AI Superpowers

By Kai-Fu Lee

Kai-Fu Lee, who led Google China from 2005 to 2009 and then founded the venture firm Sinovation Ventures, argues that China's rapid rise in artificial intelligence was a Sputnik moment for the United States. His 2018 book compares how the two countries build and use AI and describes four waves of the technology. Lee warns that AI will displace many jobs, and drawing on his own experience with cancer, he sets out a blueprint for how people can coexist with intelligent machines.

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Shane Parrish: “I love broad books like this one. One of the most interesting things in this book for me was the exploration of the differences between what’s culturally acceptable in China vs. the U.S. and how that environment shapes the people, technology, and companies that emerge.”