[New Book] Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World

[Financial News] Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the defining issue of our time. As people increasingly find themselves competing with AI, job seekers are facing a tougher labor market, even as the technology accelerates the solving of complex problems. This is especially true in medical research: tasks like analyzing the structure of biological proteins, which once took years, can now be completed in minutes by DeepMind’s AI system AlphaFold.
The new book "Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World" looks ahead to an era of superconvergence triggered by AI. Superconvergence goes beyond simple technological integration and describes a process in which previously separate domains blend together to create entirely new value systems.
The author presents a wide range of superconvergence examples: rice harvests more than tripled through gene editing, soils restored using synthetic microbes instead of chemical fertilizers, oil produced from bacteria, and spider silk developed into bulletproof materials.
rsunjun@fnnews.com Yoo Seon-jun Reporter