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.
