The Coming Wave: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider

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The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider- the only book you need to read on this subject. AI. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. QUANTUM COMPUTING. 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. 'Fascinating, well-written, and important' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens 'Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing' Stephen Fry 'An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times' Bill Gates 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. The Coming Wave 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.

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Heartfelt and candid a serious exploration of what the future might hold for us all * Observer *
Thoughtful and persuasive * Sunday Times, *Books of the Year* *
Confused by the current furore about AI This book is a good place to start The Coming Wave is a sweeping account of the latest advances in AI and synthetic biology * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* *
A cogent look at the technologys potential to transform the economy and society, along with the risks of misuse and surveillance * Economist, *Books of the Year* *
The rise of AI has led to a rise in books about AI, among the most insightful of which is The Coming Wave * Prospect, *Books of the Year 2023* *

Author Bio

Mustafa Suleyman (Author) Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI. Previously he co-founded and was the CEO of Inflection AI, and he also 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. He tweets @MustafaSuleyman. Michael Bhaskar (Author) Michael Bhaskar is a writer and publisher based in the UK. He is the author of The Content Machine, Curation and Human Frontiers.