AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognisable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionise medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis and create brand new forms of communication and entertainment. However, AI will also challenge the organising principles of our economic and social order and bring ew risks in the form of autonomous weapons and smart technology that inherits human bias. AI is at a tipping point, and people need to wake up to both AI's radiant pathways and its existential perils for life as we know it. 

In this provocative utterly original work of 'scientific fiction' Kai-fu Lee, former president of Google China and novelist Chen Qiufan imagine our AI world in 2041 in ten gripping short stories offering an insight into our collective future and reminds us that we are the authors of our own destiny. 

Visit the In Other Worlds immersive exhibition between 21st May 2026 and 6th September 2026.