The Coming Wave : Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 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 and current CEO of Microsoft AI
"A fascinating, well-written, and important book."--Yuval Noah Harari
"Essential reading."--Daniel Kahneman
"My favorite book on AI."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes A Best Book of the Year: CNN, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor * Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award * Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 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 organize 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 center 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. How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control? How do we navigate the narrow path to a successful future? 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.
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"An extraordinary and necessary book . . . The wave is about to hit and this is the forecast." --Alain de Botton, author and philosopher
"Nobody has been closer to the unfolding AI revolution than Mustafa Suleyman. . . . An utterly essential guide to this unique moment in human history." --Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Google, and author of The Age of AI
"Read this essential book to understand the pace and scale of these technologies--how they will proliferate across our society and their potential to challenge the fabric of the institutions that organize our world." --Ian Bremmer, founder, Eurasia Group and bestselling author of The Power of Crisis
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"Incredibly compelling." --Bruce Schneier, security technologist and bestselling author of A Hacker's Mind
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Table Of Contents
| Glossary of Key Terms | vii |
| Prologue | 3 |
| Containment is Not Possible | 5 |
| Homo Technologicus | |
| Endless Proliferation | 23 |
| The Containment Problem | 35 |
| The Next Wave | |
| The Technology of Intelligence | 51 |
| The Technology of Life | 79 |
| The Wider Wave | 92 |
| Four Features of the Coming Wave | 103 |
| Unstoppable Incentives | 117 |
| States of Failure | |
| The Grand Bargain | 147 |
| Fragility Amplifiers | 160 |
| The Future of Nations | 183 |
| The Dilemma | 205 |
| Through the Wave | |
| Containment Must Be Possible | 225 |
| Ten Steps Toward Containment | 239 |
| Life After the Anthropocene | 281 |
| Acknowledgments | 287 |
| Notes | 289 |
| Index | 319 |
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 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 intel ...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 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 and current CEO of Microsoft AI
"A fascinating, well-written, and important book."--Yuval Noah Harari
"Essential reading."--Daniel Kahneman
"My favorite book on AI."--Bill Gates, GatesNotes A Best Book of the Year: CNN, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor * Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award * Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 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 organize 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 center 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. How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control? How do we navigate the narrow path to a successful future? 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.
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"An extraordinary and necessary book . . . The wave is about to hit and this is the forecast." --Alain de Botton, author and philosopher
"Nobody has been closer to the unfolding AI revolution than Mustafa Suleyman. . . . An utterly essential guide to this unique moment in human history." --Eric Schmidt, former CEO, Google, and author of The Age of AI
"Read this essential book to understand the pace and scale of these technologies--how they will proliferate across our society and their potential to challenge the fabric of the institutions that organize our world." --Ian Bremmer, founder, Eurasia Group and bestselling author of The Power of Crisis
"A much-needed dose of specificity, realism, and clarity." --Martha Minow, professor, Harvard Law School
"Incredibly compelling." --Bruce Schneier, security technologist and bestselling author of A Hacker's Mind
Table Of Contents
| Glossary of Key Terms | vii |
| Prologue | 3 |
| Containment is Not Possible | 5 |
| Homo Technologicus | |
| Endless Proliferation | 23 |
| The Containment Problem | 35 |
| The Next Wave | |
| The Technology of Intelligence | 51 |
| The Technology of Life | 79 |
| The Wider Wave | 92 |
| Four Features of the Coming Wave | 103 |
| Unstoppable Incentives | 117 |
| States of Failure | |
| The Grand Bargain | 147 |
| Fragility Amplifiers | 160 |
| The Future of Nations | 183 |
| The Dilemma | 205 |
| Through the Wave | |
| Containment Must Be Possible | 225 |
| Ten Steps Toward Containment | 239 |
| Life After the Anthropocene | 281 |
| Acknowledgments | 287 |
| Notes | 289 |
| Index | 319 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram Syndetics. All Rights Reserved. |
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