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 “An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented
times.”—Bill Gates 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.