An urgent exploration of the risks posed by rapidly advancing AI and technology to global stability is presented by a co-founder of DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI. The author highlights the potential dangers these innovations bring and emphasizes the need for proactive measures to mitigate their impact. Through insights and expertise, the book advocates for strategies to manage these challenges before they escalate, offering a timely perspective on the intersection of technology and global security.
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.'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 GatesSoon 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.'A stunning book by a man at the very centre of
the AI revolution' Rory Stewart'Essential reading' Daniel Kahneman
"The rise of AI must be better managed in the near term in order to mitigate longer term risks and to ensure that AI does not reinforce existing inequalities"--Publisher
