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Where friends Ken Liu and Hao Jingfang differ and converge on AI
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(From left) Writer Felicia Low-Jimenez moderated a conversation between science-fiction writers Ken Liu and Hao Jingfang at the Singapore Writers Festival on Nov 9.
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SINGAPORE – Friends who stay together can sometimes differ on serious grounds like how artificial intelligence (AI) will shape the future, if the conversation between award-winning science-fiction writers Ken Liu and Hao Jingfang at the Singapore Writers Festival on Nov 9 is anything to go by.
At the Victoria Theatre, the American Liu, 49, diagnosed that the apprehension about AI technologies is often a red herring: “It’s almost always the fact that there are people who are trying to use AI as a tool to make things cheaper, faster, and to displace human craftspeople from their positions.
