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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent alert regarding the unparalleled dangers that AI and other rapidly advancing technologies present to global stability, and how we might manage them while we still can—from a co-founder of the trailblazing artificial intelligence firm DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI
“An intriguing, well-articulated, and crucial read.”—Yuval Noah Harari
“A must-read.”—Daniel Kahneman
“My favorite book on AI.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes
A Best Book of the Year: CNN, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award
We are nearing a pivotal moment in the history of our civilization. Everything is on the brink of transformation.
Before long, you will be surrounded by AIs. They will manage your life, oversee your business, and operate essential government functions. You will inhabit a world of DNA printers, quantum computers, engineered pathogens, autonomous weaponry, robotic assistants, and abundant energy.
None of us are ready for this shift.
As co-founder of the groundbreaking AI company DeepMind, affiliated with Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the forefront of this transformation. He posits that the upcoming decade will be shaped by this surge of potent, swiftly proliferating technologies.
In The Coming Wave, Suleyman illustrates how these forces will generate significant wealth but also endanger the nation-state—the cornerstone of global stability. As our tenuous governments drift into calamity, we confront an existential quandary: unprecedented risks on one side, the possibility of oppressive surveillance on the other.
How do we guarantee the thriving of humanity? How do we retain control? How do we traverse the narrow path to a successful future?
This groundbreaking book from the foremost AI insider frames “the containment problem”—the challenge of maintaining oversight over powerful technologies—as the defining issue of our era.
