The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman; Michael Bhaskar
Language: English
Published by Bodley Head, 2023
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- Title
- The Coming Wave
- Author
- Mustafa Suleyman; Michael Bhaskar
- Publisher
- Bodley Head
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1847927491
- ISBN 13
- 9781847927491
A stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologies poses to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance-from a cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind
We are about to cross a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.
Soon we will live surrounded by AIs. They will carry out complex tasks-operating businesses, producing unlimited digital content, running core government services and maintaining infrastructure. This will be a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. It represents nothing less than a step change in human capability.
We are not prepared.
As cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution, one poised to become the single greatest accelerant of progress in history. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. Driven by overwhelming strategic and commercial incentives, these tools will help address our global challenges and create vast wealth-but also upheaval on a once unimaginable scale.
In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces threaten the grand bargain of the nation state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms arising from unchecked openness on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?
In this groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider, Suleyman establishes "the containment problem"-the task of maintaining control over powerful
technologies-as the essential challenge of our age.
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