The Coming Wave
A.I., Power and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
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Mustafa Suleyman
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Brought to you by Penguin.
**A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, Sept 2023**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**
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.
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.
©2023 Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar (P)2023 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
'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
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- Jonathon
- 28-09-2024
Time to act. Create a we.
Confronting but I think spot on there needs to be action on the global scale to consider what is happening and how we can best contain it so that everyone can benefit. Let’s not be ignorant.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-02-2024
My Enlightenment
The level of information of new information beautifully presented. was amazing.
most informative book I've listened too.will read this a second time soon.
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- Mark Farrow
- 14-05-2024
Recommend
A must listen for those running a business or an employee, I wish for a smooth transition to AI .. it could be ugly
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- Anonymous User
- 19-02-2024
It's actually a Tsunami that is coming.
Very interesting topic. Worth listening to. Mentions a lot of parallels, however, the power of this wave has no parallel.
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- Rosie
- 11-09-2023
Not for the feint of heart!!
Equally inspiring and terrifying. On the one hand AI sounds like the answer to all the worlds problems, and on the other hand, a totalitarian dystopian surely awaits. Suleyman is not afraid to lay out all the possibilities of the coming wave (that can sometimes read as a playbook for ‘bad actors’ to use the technologies against the masses). It’s a lot to take in. I am listening out of a sense of duty as I think it’s better to know what’s coming, but if you’re already anxious about the future, listen with care!
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- Stephen Foster
- 11-11-2023
Eye opening!
Loved it. This book is perfect for someone wanting to get a glimpse into the future… and gets you thinking about how your life will be changed in the years to come.
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- Anonymous User
- 21-05-2024
Depth and breadth … insightful
Detailed, personal account of what’s happened and what is to come. A valuable read, balanced but leaning toward a troublesome future.
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- Ashley
- 01-11-2023
Loved it
Probably the best book on AI in years with lots of new insights and how it will potentially affect our future.
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- L. SCHAPER
- 04-02-2024
Necessary reading
I bought copies of this for the teenagers in my life and am recommending it to everyone. If you want to start preparing for the near future, which will look very different from today, then read this book to help prepare, plan, and seize the opportunities.
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- Morcos M
- 09-09-2023
A great book
A great book, full of insights and very easy to read / listen to. Well written
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