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The Coming Wave

Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman Michael Bhaskar

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Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc
05 September 2023
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind

“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”—Yuval Noah Harari

“Essential reading.”—Daniel Kahneman “An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times.”—Bill Gates

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 approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.    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, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.    Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?   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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Imprint:   Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 242mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 29mm
Weight:   590g
ISBN:   9780593593950
ISBN 10:   0593593952
Pages:   352
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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. Michael Bhaskar is a writer and publisher, author of The Content Machine, Curation and Human Frontiers.

Reviews for The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

“This important book is a vivid wake-up call . . . rich with interesting facts, arresting arguments, and compelling observations; it is essential reading.”—Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Thinking Fast and Slow   “An erudite, clear-eyed guide to both the history of radical technological change and to the deep political challenges that lay ahead.”—Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian   “Deeply researched and highly relevant.”—Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States “A persuasively argued tour-de-force.”—Nouriel Roubini, economist and bestselling author of Megathreats “An extraordinary and necessary book.”—Alain de Botton, author and philosopher “Nobody has been closer to the unfolding AI revolution than Mustafa Suleyman.”—Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Google, and author of The Age of AI “Read this essential book to understand the pace and scale of these technologies.”—Ian Bremmer, founder, Eurasia Group and bestselling author of The Power of Crisis “A much-needed dose of specificity, realism, and clarity.”—Martha Minow, professor, Harvard Law School “Incredibly compelling.”—Bruce Schneier, security technologist and bestselling author of A Hacker’s Mind “Thought-provoking, urgent and written in powerful, highly accessible prose.”—Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab “Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing.”—Stephen Fry, actor, broadcaster and bestselling author


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