**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**
