[1][2][3] His first novel was The Waste Tide (2013), which "combines realism with allegory to present the hybridity of humans and machines".

His works have been translated into German, French, Finnish, Korean, Czech, Italian, Japanese and Polish and other languages.

That story won him a literary prize in a contest moderated by an AI judge, over Nobel laureate Mo Yan.

[7] Chen's collaboration with Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, was published in September, 2021.

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