The Coming Wave

Heartfelt and candid a serious exploration of what the future might hold for us all * Observer * Thoughtful and persuasive * Sunday Times, *Books of the Year* * 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 * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* * A cogent look at the technologys potential to transform the economy and society, along with the risks of misuse and surveillance * Economist, *Books of the Year* * The rise of AI has led to a rise in books about AI, among the most insightful of which is The Coming Wave * Prospect, *Books of the Year 2023* * Unusually thoughtful, expansive, historically rooted and engagingly written * Washington Post * 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 * Guardian * Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing * Stephen Fry * A fascinating, well-written and important book * Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens * 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 * Rory Stewart *

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.