SHANGHAI - The Yuan contributor Calum Chace received glowing endorsements from leading academics from the People’s Republic of China after his best-selling book Artificial Intelligence and the Two Singularities was republished and translated into Chinese. 

The book, published by CRC Press, an imprint of the leading academic publishing group, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, has been hailed a “masterpiece of thinking and innovation.”

First published in 2018, Artificial Intelligence and the Two Singularities argues that in the course of this century, the exponential growth in the capability of AI is likely to bring about two "singularities" - points at which conditions are so extreme that the normal rules break down. The first is the economic singularity, when machine skill reaches a level that renders many of us unemployable and requires an overhaul of our current economic and social systems. The second is the technological singularity, when machine intelligence reaches and then su