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Mustafa Suleyman, a co-founder of the AI company DeepMind, which is part of Google, argues that the coming decade will be shaped by a wave of fast-spreading technologies. Among them he names artificial intelligence that runs businesses and government services, quantum computers, DNA printers, autonomous weapons, engineered pathogens, robot assistants and abundant energy. Suleyman expects these forces to produce great prosperity while also threatening the nation-state, which he treats as the foundation of global order. The dilemma he sets out lies between unprecedented harms on one side and heavy surveillance on the other, and he asks whether a narrow path exists between catastrophe and dystopia. Michael Bhaskar is credited as co-author.
Steven Bartlett singled out its framing of the containment problem, the task of keeping powerful new technologies such as AI and genetic engineering under control, as the defining challenge of the era. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman endorsed it.
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In The Coming Wave he describes the risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, and establishes 'the containment problem' - the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies - as the essential challenge of our age. An incredible mind to delve into.
Daniel Kahneman (Nobel Prize Winner, Author)
Essential reading.
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