The Coming Wave (Export Edition)

“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, • Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the 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 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....

Auteur

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.