The Coming Wave: AI, power, and the 21st century's greatest dilemma

Name: The Coming Wave: AI, power, and the 21st century's greatest dilemma
Author: Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar
ISBN: 9780593593967

Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar

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Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar

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#3295 of 3,809 books · #452 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award (2023).

The Coming Wave won the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award and was a New York Times bestseller. We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. None of us are prepared. As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control? How do we navigate the narrow path to a successful future? This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes "the containment problem"—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.

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