The Coming Wave
AI, Power and Our Future: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider
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4.0 • 17 Ratings
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Publisher Description
*An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*
Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year
This is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.
'If you want to understand the rise of AI, this is the best book to read' BILL GATES
'Important' YUVAL NOAH HARARI
'Astonishing' STEPHEN FRY
'Stunning' RORY STEWART
Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.
None of us are prepared.
Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The next decade, he explains, will be defined by a wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. These will create immense prosperity but also present risks.
How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control over these technologies? And how do we find the narrow path to a successful future? In this groundbreaking book we learn how to think about the essential challenge of our age.
Be prepared. Read The Coming Wave.
**CHOSEN AS ONE OF BILL GATES' BOOKS TO KEEP YOU WARM THIS HOLIDAY SEASON**
**A New York Times and Instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sept 2023**
Customer Reviews
Forget climate change, this is serious
The authors are British. Mr Suleyman is an AI researcher and entrepreneur. In 2010, he co-founded ‘DeepMind,’ then sold it to ‘Google’ for a motazah in 2014 and became their vice president of AI product management and policy. In 2022, he co-founded a new machine learning start-up called ‘Inflection AI’ with Reid Hoffman (of LinkedIn fame) and remains its CEO. Michael Bhaskar is writer-in-residence at ‘DeepMind.’ He looks human based on the picture on his website, but he might still be a computer. Deep Fake and all that. (Just kidding.)
Mr Suleyman is a BIG NAME in AI who knows technology and says we should be scared of what’s coming in machine learning and biotech, at least in part because of how quickly it’s coming. His knowledge of culture and history is less convincing. That makes for a lot of speculation and hyperbole leading up to a final chapter, which is all you really need to know: what to do about it. The authors provide a dot point list of 10 things I hate about you, no, of 10 things we can do to contain the risk of AI and synthetic biology. Whether all 10 are achieved seems doubtful. Fortunately, there seems to be a bit of overlap between them.