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By (author) Suleyman, Mustafa; By (author) Bhaskar Michael
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*An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*
Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year
This is the only book you need to understand our new world – from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.
”If you want to understand the rise of AI, this is the bestbook to read” BILL GATES
”Important” YUVAL NOAH HARARI
”Astonishing” STEPHEN FRY
”Stunning” RORY STEWART
Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.
None of us are prepared.
Mustafa Suleyman has been at the centre of this revolution. The next decade, he explains, will be defined by a wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. These will create immense prosperity but also present risks.
How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control over these technologies? And how do we find the narrow path to a successful future? In this groundbreaking book we learn how to think about the essential challenge of our age.
Be prepared. Read The Coming Wave.
**CHOSEN AS ONE OF BILL GATES” BOOKS TO KEEP YOU WARM THIS HOLIDAY SEASON**
**A New York Times and Instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sept 2023**
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Heartfelt and
candid … a serious exploration of
what the future might hold for us all
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Thoughtful and persuasive
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Confused by the current furore about AI? This book is a good place to start… The Coming Wave is a sweeping account of the latest advances in AI and synthetic biology
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A cogent look at the technology’s potential to transform the economy and society, along with the risks of misuse and surveillance
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The rise of AI has led to a rise in books about AI, among the
most insightful of which is The Coming Wave
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Unusually thoughtful,
expansive,
historically rooted and
engagingly written
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A
genuinely mind-boggling read,
setting out the ineluctable forces soon to completely transform politics, society and even the fabric of life itself over the next decade or two
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Deeply rewarding and
consistently astonishing
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A
fascinating,
well-written and
important book
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A
stunning book by a man at the very centre of the AI revolution – realistic, tough-minded [and] charting a meaningful course between AI catastrophe and dystopia
Biographical note:
Mustafa Suleyman (Author)
Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI. Previously he was CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI. Before that he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world”s leading AI companies, and after a decade there, he became vice president of AI product management and AI policy at Google. When he was an undergraduate at Oxford, Suleyman dropped out to help start a non-profit telephone counselling service. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
He tweets @MustafaSuleyman.
Michael Bhaskar (Author)
Michael Bhaskar is a writer and publisher based in the UK. He is the author of The Content Machine, Curation and Human Frontiers.
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