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The Coming Wave

AI, Power, and Our Future

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The Coming Wave

By: Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar
Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI

“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”—Yuval Noah Harari
“Essential reading.”—Daniel Kahneman
“My favorite book on AI.”—Bill Gates, GatesNotes

A Best Book of the Year: CNN, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor • Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.

Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy.

None of us are prepared.

As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.

In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.

How do we ensure the flourishing of humankind? How do we maintain control? How do we navigate the narrow path to a successful future?

This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes “the containment problem”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age. Computer Science Future Studies History & Culture Social Sciences
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Just before the coming wave, which we do not know how powerful and high it will be, the author draws our attention to many aspects that most of us do not even have on the radar and helps us grasp the impact or even to estimate their influence on our personal lives and humanity in general. The audio book is very well spoken and the language has a positive aura throughout.

A landmark publication

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Assumptions.. repetitions... impressions... Weird Connections...but no comprehensive storyline how the current changes differ from past one or in what they will impact us...na terrible listen.

Repetitive and meaningless

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Ich bin selber KI-Forscher und hatte aufgrund des Autors einen erfrischenden Blick auf KI erwartet. Leider bestätigt das Buch wieder einmal melne negative Sicht auf populärwissenschaftliche Literatur in diesem Fach.

Wie in fachfremden Medien üblich, wird auch hier ausgiebig vor den angeblich großen Risiken gewarnt. Das ist grundsätzlich durchaus wichtig - wie bei allen Technologien. Allerdings ist es bei KI so ausgelutscht und wird in einem Übermaß betrieben, dass es definitiv kein weiteres Buch gebraucht hätte.

Letztlich gibt es bei KI die gleiche Dual Use Problematik wie bei Mobiltelefonen, dem Internet oder dem Buchdruck.

Dass der Autor behauptet, dieses Thema finde in der öffentlichen Diskussion kaum Beachtung, lässt mich daran zweifeln, dass er diese wirklich verfolgt.

Ein Buch, das die Welt nicht braucht.

Leider nur ein weiteres Buch, das vor KI warnt

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