The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future

Two technologies, artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, are arriving at scale at the same moment, and Mustafa Suleyman argues that neither can be contained by the tools states currently hold. Writing from inside the industry as a co-founder of DeepMind, Suleyman sets out why powerful general technologies spread rather than stay put, what that proliferation means for employment, security and the authority of nation states, and which forms of containment might still be workable. The book has been named on several business and general book-of-the-year lists. Key things to know: • An insider account of frontier AI written for readers outside the field • Links machine learning and synthetic biology as parts of a single wave • Weighs the risks of heavy-handed regulation against those of unchecked release • Shortlisted for a major business book award and widely reviewed Suited to readers in technology, policy and business who want an argument rather than a forecast, stocked at Boipoka.