The Coming Wave (Hardback)

Mustafa Suleyman (author), Michael Bhaskar (author)

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Published: 07/09/2023

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Synopsis

The co-founder of DeepMind reveals his thoughts and concerns about the inexorable rise of Artificial Intelligence in this urgent and provocative volume that calls for better preparedness for the imminent technological onslaught.

Shortlisted for the Financial Times Book of the Year 2023

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?

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781847927484
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 573 g
Dimensions: 240 x 162 x 33 mm

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'Rich with interesting facts, arresting arguments, and compelling observations, it is essential reading.' - Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast and Slow

'An extraordinary and necessary book ... one leaves energised and thrilled to be alive right now.' - Alain de Botton, author and philosopher