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The Coming Wave

AI, Power and Our Future

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The Coming Wave

Written by: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar
Narrated by: 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.


'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

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Critic Reviews

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
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An excellent in depth overview of the AI wave, its possibilities, and even more, its dangers if left unbridled. The dangers would range from synthetic biology to any aspects of AI. Government and corporate leaders should read this and take action towards proliferation of AI, not just by crude policing and control, but by investing in lots of AI experts in a global consortium and coming with guidelines for audit, compliance and enforcement, so that the world will be a better place.

Deep hope and shock

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This book is must read for everyone, not limited to AI enthusiast, It is thought provoking book. Book content clearly reflects the study, understanding and engagement of the authors. Highly recommended!

Thought provoking!

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I liked the past, present, and future of AI and the possibilities of what can be done.

The Coming Wave

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Book published in 2023 and the story is playing as he predicted till now.whatever gonna happen will happen you can only change your path .

Prediction view future

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In flood of information in the work related to diffusion of knowledge about AI this book is an excellent effort to make important note about containment of AI and calls for relevant solutions to solve this issue.

Very Concise and delightfully useful

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