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The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar · 2023 · Crown
A DeepMind and Inflection AI co-founder's argument that AI and synthetic biology together represent a wave of technological power existing institutions aren't built to contain.
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Summary
This book explores the potential societal impacts of developing technologies, particularly artificial intelligence. The author argues that these advancements will bring prosperity but also pose threats to global stability, including challenges to the nation-state. The text indicates that these technologies could lead to an existential dilemma, presenting potential harms and the risk of surveillance. The book establishes the concept of the "containment problem," which involves maintaining control over powerful technologies, as a central challenge of the contemporary era.
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About the authors
Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI. He previously co-founded and served as CEO of Inflection AI, and was also a co-founder of DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company.
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Full Who's Who profile →Michael Bhaskar
Michael Bhaskar is a British writer, researcher and publisher. His first book, The Content Machine: Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network (Anthem Press, 2013), is an academic exploration of the past, present and future of the publishing industry. His second book Curation: The power of selection in a world of excess (Piatkus/Little, Brown, 2016) is business-oriented non-fiction, an analysis of how to prosper when facing information overload.
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