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The Coming Wave
- A.I., Power and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma
- Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin.
**A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, Sept 2023**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**
AI. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. QUANTUM COMPUTING. Everything is about to change. This is the only book you need to understand this new world.
From the ultimate AI insider, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, part of Google.
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?
This ground-breaking 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.
Critic reviews
'Fascinating, well-written, and important' Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens
'Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing' Stephen Fry
'An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times' Bill Gates
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- Chefoir
- 15-09-23
An interesting and thought provoking view
Firstly, it is always a delight when an author is eloquent enough to narrate their own work. It adds nuance to the delivery which brings the subject to life. Especially valuable when the topic can be dry at times.
The thoughts and theories behind the body of the work are relevant but opaque to many, so it is valuable to have this accessible narrative on the potential pitfalls and risks of inaction.
The author pushes the completion and adoption of multiple disparate technical advancements to their ultimate (but I would argue not inevitable) conclusion and shows the potential impact that would have on society.
Well researched, only occasionally opinionated and controversial only where it serves to focus the mind, this is an interesting and thought provoking narrative on the potential risk of inaction and the need for attention from a broad range of observers.
As somebody with a role in the field, I found it to be a valuable and broad reaching discussion on the amplifying impact of multiple technical evolutions on our future.
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- Becki
- 17-09-23
Interesting and thought provoking
Well presented, reasoned and balanced observations and arguments on the potential benefits and risks of emerging technology.
Written in plain English (if not a little dry at points) well read with a good pace. Very timely and enlightening.
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- JOD
- 04-10-23
Informative and important.
I have read many books on AI by now and yet I found the coming wave highly informative, compellingly told and incredibly important. Read it and pass it on.
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- Mrs Virginia Ware-Sykes
- 19-03-24
Fascinating - scary but reassuring at the same time.
Well balanced (and interesting) presentation of AI opportunities and risks, from one of the industry's founding fathers.
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- Ged Martin
- 05-01-24
Love it! Even though it scares the crap out of me
Extremely well narrated. Warning of possible Armageddon situations but in a calm voice is weird but welcome. There is also hope here. Mustafa is no Cassandra but does put us on notice that we have to take this seriously. The benefits will be profound and wonderful if we do it right. Conversely, the potential to mess it up exists also and the consequences of that will be disastrous.
Lots of different aspects of the coming wave dealt with here, some obvious, others mind-blowing.
Highly recommended.
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- A W.
- 26-10-23
4 hours of repeating points take a toll
It is a great book don't get me wrong. But boy this guy loves to turn a sentence into a page of words. I think the book would be more hard hitting if it lost the waffle so the points could shine through.
Absolutely worth the listen as it has important areas covered but you have to hang in there.
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- Happy Annie
- 14-09-23
5 STAR excellent listen!
I found this book to be fascinating , from the historical facts and politics, the whole book was put together brilliantly with fascinating insight into the subject. raving about it to everyone that will listen!
thanks for writing it!
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- Abdimalik abdullahi
- 12-10-23
Incredibly insightful
An incredible read & very well narrated. Apart from the terribly liberal, red scare anti-communist takes on ‘muh authoritarianism’ this book, I feel, has prepped me for the genuinely enormous coming wave of pocket Ai tools. Highly recommended read!
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- Roy Veshovda
- 27-09-23
Very good state-of-the-art presentation
Very good overview of the field and state-of-the-art AI. I consider myself a technology-optimist, but this book pushes that part a bit too far. Also, the trust is state’s abilities to contain and regulate are a bit too ver the top. Maybe this is the auther’s views. Can also be pushed to provoke to action
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- H Newsam
- 01-10-23
Read this book to understand the risks of the future
The next decade or two the human race will need to make so big decisions about AI, automation and bio technology. The time to start is now. This book outlines the risks. This isn’t just new and more advanced technology it’s is about the ability to create systems that are more celebrities and dexterous than us. It’s is about at some point almost all of us having access to the kind of technology only States can have.
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