Ai Superpowers

I guess the book is meant for a lay audience so I didn't learn all that much. There was some cultural insight into China (helping me lose a few preconceptions), but not much new about AI. There's a lot of starry-eyed predictions of how AI and data will improve everything, but no details or original examples, just repeating the well-known ones. (Also, he's name-dropping companies a lot, which I can only assume are his investments).

Thankfully, the author is aware of the real issues (societal problems due to automation, not AGI and robot overlords). I kinda liked the summary of various predictions of jobs to be automated soon. His critique of universal basic income as just a patch that the Silicon Valley elite wants to use to keep the masses docile was the most original idea in the book for me. But again, when the author tries to give some ideas on solutions, they're vague (and naive?) ideas: a class of ethical investors should develop who are content with linear returns and government should somehow reward socially-beneficial activities.