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The Coming Wave

The Coming Wave

Summary

*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.

'Important' YUVAL NOAH HARARI
'Excellent' BILL GATES
'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.

**A New York Times and Instant Sunday Times bestseller, Sept 2023**

Reviews

  • Heartfelt and candid … a serious exploration of what the future might hold for us all
    Observer

About the authors

Mustafa Suleyman

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.
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Michael Bhaskar

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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