the coming wave

 



An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind

We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. 

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, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. 

Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?

This groundbreaking 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.
Table of contents : 
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Glossary of Key Terms
Prologue
Chapter 1: Containment Is Not Possible
Part I: Homo Technologicus
Chapter 2: Endless Proliferation
Chapter 3: The Containment Problem
Part II: The Next Wave
Chapter 4: The Technology of Intelligence
Chapter 5: The Technology of Life
Chapter 6: The Wider Wave
Chapter 7: Four Features of the Coming Wave
Chapter 8: Unstoppable Incentives
Part III: States of Failure
Chapter 9: The Grand Bargain
Chapter 10: Fragility Amplifiers
Chapter 11: The Future of Nations
Chapter 12: The Dilemma
Part IV: Through the Wave
Chapter 13: Containment Must Be Possible
Chapter 14: Ten Steps Toward Containment
Life After the Anthropocene
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Authors

  


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