The Coming Wave

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From DeepMind co-founder and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman comes a bestselling and award-winning book warning of the profound risks artificial intelligence and other rapidly evolving technologies pose to global order. Suleyman argues that while these advancements promise immense prosperity, they also threaten foundational institutions, presenting an existential dilemma: unprecedented dangers versus pervasive surveillance. He identifies "the containment problem"—the essential task of controlling powerful technologies—and outlines a narrow path for navigating a successful future. Includes a new afterword.