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Books that try to predict the AI future: which one do you think gets it right?

A wave of recent books each stake out a different vision of where AI is headed over the next couple of decades — from utopian abundance and a human-machine merger, to outright human extinction if we're not careful. They can't all be right. Which author's prediction do you think comes closest to how things will actually play out, and why? Vote for the book whose case you find most convincing, or drop your own take in the comments.

AI 2041 (Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan) — ten short stories set in 2041, each paired with a nonfiction essay unpacking the real technology behind it, painting the most concrete, lived-in glimpse of how AI actually reshapes daily life.

Life 3.0 (Max Tegmark) — AI matches and then exceeds human intelligence, and the outcome ranges from a genuine utopia to a bleak dystopia depending on the choices we make now.

The Coming Wave (Mustafa Suleyman) — AI and synthetic biology are unstoppable, cheap, and spreading fast — the real challenge is learning to contain them, not stopping them.