The Coming Wave

Resumen del libro

This important book is a vivid wake-up call. It carefully outlines the threats and opportunities associated with the exhilarating scientific advances of recent years. The Coming Wave is rich with interesting facts, arresting arguments, and compelling observations; it is essential reading.' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Thinking Fast and Slow. A cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, warning that the window to contain them is rapidly closing Imagine a world in which anyone with a 20,000 desktop DNA synthesizer can develop novel viruses that could wreak havoc on global public health. Such a nightmare is not so far off: the coming decades will be defined by a burst of innovation that brings with it unprecedented dilemmas. Technologies such as synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing will create wealth and surplus unlike anything ever seen-but the disruption, too, will be on an unimaginable scale, threatening the very idea of the nation state. As cofounder of DeepMind, the company behind a series of pioneering AI technologies and now owned by Google, Mustafa Suleyman has witnessed first-hand just how quickly our technological advances are accelerating-and just how flawed our approaches to grappling with them are. As we avert our eyes from the dramatic ways technologies are changing our reality, humanity is in an existential bind, with dystopian techno-authoritarianism on one side and even more catastrophic outcomes, like societal collapse, on the other. In this groundbreaking book, a clarion call to action from the ultimate AI insider, Suleyman interrogates these defining questions, establishing 'the containment problem'-or the challenge of maintaining human control over dangerous technologies-as the essential dilemma of our age and proposes radical ways forward, including the need for what he calls 'deep adaptation' if humans are to live with great changes ahead. Grounded in a rigorous, lively historical analysis as well as Suleyman's frontline insights, Containment Is Not Possible, written with Suleyman's long-time collaborator Michael Bhaskar, explores how humankind may still make it through the narrow corridor between dystopia and catastrophe.

Biografía del autor

Michael Bhaskar es escritor, editor digital, investigador y empresario. Es cofundador de Canelo, un nuevo tipo de editorial establecida en Londres; fue escritor residente en Deep-Mind, el principal laboratorio de investigación del mundo en IA. Ha escrito, entre otros, para The Guardian, The FT y Wired.