LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s.

In his new book, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman argues that fear-focused responses to AI ignore the incredible promise this technological revolution holds.

We’re producing vastly more information than any of us can possibly consume—artificial intelligence may be the key to effectively making use of that data.