The Coming Wave
by Mustafa Suleyman
Technology & Engineering
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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The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman, a seminal work on the profound transformations brought about by rapidly advancing technologies, naturally forms a crucial nexus with other influential titles that explore human adaptability and responsible leadership. Its position within this cluster highlights a reader's deep engagement with the architecture of the future, encompassing both the emergent forces and the human capacity to navigate them. This book, fundamentally an urgent exposition on the unprecedented risks of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies, such as those detailed by Suleyman, finds a compelling parallel in Carol S. Dweck's *Mindset*. While *The Coming Wave* focuses on the macro-level existential dilemmas posed by technological acceleration and the imperative of societal control, *Mindset* offers a foundational understanding of how individual and collective capacity for growth and learning is paramount to adaptation. The bridge here is striking: Suleyman's call for foresight and control in the face of overwhelming change implies a need for individuals and societies capable of learning and evolving. Dweck's framework provides the very tools for cultivating this adaptability, suggesting that a fixed view of capabilities would be disastrous when confronted with the "wave" Suleyman describes. Your interest in both books signals an implicit recognition of this symbiotic relationship – that technological progress demands a corresponding evolution in our cognitive and adaptive frameworks.
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