**A Sunday Times Economist Prospect and Financial Times Book of the Year** **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.
'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 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. 'A stunning book by a man at the very
centre of the AI revolution' Rory Stewart 'Essential reading' Daniel Kahneman 'Confused by
the current furore about AI? This book is a good place to start...' Financial Times Books of
the Year 2023 **A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Sept 2023**
