The Coming Wave Synopsis
Everything is about to change. This is the only book you need to understand this new world. From the ultimate AI insider, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, part of Google.
Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise 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 centre 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 and the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia? This ground-breaking 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.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781847927484 |
| Publication date: |
7th September 2023 |
| Author: |
Mustafa Suleyman |
| Publisher: |
The Bodley Head Ltd an imprint of Vintage Publishing |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Pagination: |
352 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Popular Science
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Mustafa Suleyman Press Reviews
'Heartfelt and candid … a serious exploration of what the future might hold for us all' - Observer
'Unusually thoughtful, expansive, historically rooted and engagingly written' - Washington Post
'A genuinely mind-boggling read, setting out the ineluctable forces soon to completely transform politics, society and even the fabric of life itself over the next decade or two' - Guardian
'Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing' - Stephen Fry
'A fascinating, well-written and important book' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens
'A stunning book by a man at the very centre of the AI revolution - realistic, tough-minded [and] charting a meaningful course between AI catastrophe and dystopia' - Rory Stewart
'Rich with interesting facts, arresting arguments, and compelling observations, it is essential reading' - Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast and Slow
'An extraordinary and necessary book ... one leaves energised and thrilled to be alive right now' - Alain de Botton, author and philosopher
'An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times' - Bill Gates
'Extraordinary ... utterly unmissable' - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and author of The Age of AI
'This vital book is inspiring and terrifying ... we need to read it and act on it' - David Miliband, former UK Foreign Secretary
'An erudite, clear-eyed guide both to the history of radical technological change and to the deep political challenges that lie ahead' - Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy
'Read this essential book to understand the pace and scale of these technologies' - Ian Bremmer, founder of Eurasia Group and author of The Power of Crisis
About Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI. Previously he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI companies. After a decade at DeepMind, Suleyman became vice president of AI product management and AI policy at Google. When he was an undergraduate at Oxford, Suleyman dropped out to help start a non-profit telephone counselling service. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
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