Kai-Fu Lee

The passage is presented as material from Lee’s book, so it is attributable to his written position; Nadella’s endorsement is separate and does not count as Lee’s view. Lee is unusually blunt that AI agents can perform entire white-collar workdays at a fraction of the cost, with no jobs-created, timeline, augmentation, or regulatory fantasy. The small residual cope score reflects the managerial “roadmap” framing and failure to explicitly name mass unemployment, not denial of the capability itself.