Kai-Fu Lee talks AI-driven unemployment: ‘Who says we need jobs?’

Kai-Fu Lee talks AI-driven unemployment: ‘Who says we need jobs?’

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With more than 1.7 million followers on Twitter , Kai-Fu Lee knows how to attract attention. As head of Beijing’s Sinovation Ventures (and former head of Google China), Lee is an often outspoken and controversial champion of artificial intelligence. Among his headline-making predictions are that 50 percent of all jobs will be replaced by automation, that China will become an AI superpower , and that Wall Street’s biggest banks will be overtaken by AI . But rather than fearing an AI apocalypse, Lee says we must accept the enormous changes ahead, especially those related to mass unemployment. […]

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