The Coming Wave

AI, Power and Our Future

De: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar

Narrado por: Mustafa Suleyman

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.


'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

©2023 Michael Bhaskar & Mustafa Suleyman (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

Heartfelt and candid … a serious exploration of what the future might hold for us all

Thoughtful and persuasive

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

A cogent look at the technology’s potential to transform the economy and society, along with the risks of misuse and surveillance

The rise of AI has led to a rise in books about AI, among the most insightful of which is The Coming Wave

Unusually thoughtful, expansive, historically rooted and engagingly written

A genuinely mind-boggling read, setting out the ineluctable forces soon to completely transform politics, society and even the fabric of life itself over the next decade or two

Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing

A fascinating, well-written and important book

A stunning book by a man at the very centre of the AI revolution - realistic, tough-minded [and] charting a meaningful course between AI catastrophe and dystopia

For AI amateurs and experts alike

Brilliant read- from the incredible opportunities that AI brings to the potential risk - the author balances the excitement with measures that we must take to prevent intentional and possibly unintended negative outcomes.

Must-Read for Our Time

The Coming Wave is one of the most important books this decade. It captures the scale and urgency of what’s unfolding in technology and geopolitics with remarkable clarity. Deeply researched, sobering, and essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping our future. Everyone should read it.

Compelling & compulsory listening

An insider’s insights on the fearsome tools AI puts in the hands of saints and sinners alike. When your job collapses around you, as is likely, where will you look? This illuminating book may well be your pathfinder,

Brilliant!

Clear message...Containment! Containment! Containment!
It's great to hear of the concerns from some whom are leading the way, this is responsible AI design.

An important call to action for our future world

Mustafa Suleyman is uncovering the depths of the revolution that technology brings to our doorstep and offers some important lessons. This is Yuval Noah Harari wanna be book, with practical implications.