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**A Sunday Times, Economist, Prospect and Financial Times Book of the Year**
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023**

AI. SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY. QUANTUM COMPUTING. Everything is about to change. This is the only book you need to understand this new world.

From the ultimate AI insider, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, part of Google.

‘Fascinating, well-written, and important’ Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens
‘Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing’ Stephen Fry
‘An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times’ Bill Gates

Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organise 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 centre 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 and the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.

Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?

This ground-breaking 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.

‘A stunning book by a man at the very centre of the AI revolution’ Rory Stewart

‘Essential reading’ Daniel Kahneman

‘Confused by the current furore about AI? This book is a good place to start…’ Financial Times, Books of the Year 2023

**A Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, Sept 2023**

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Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing * Stephen Fry * A fascinating, well-written and important book * Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens * Rich with interesting facts, arresting arguments, and compelling observations, it is essential reading * Daniel Kahneman, author of Thinking Fast and Slow * An extraordinary and necessary book ... one leaves energised and thrilled to be alive right now * Alain de Botton, author and philosopher * An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times * Bill Gates * 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 * Extraordinary ... utterly unmissable * Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and author of The Age of AI * This vital book is inspiring and terrifying ... we need to read it and act on it * David Miliband, former UK Foreign Secretary * An erudite, clear-eyed guide both to the history of radical technological change and to the deep political challenges that lie ahead * Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Democracy * Read this essential book to understand the pace and scale of these technologies * Ian Bremmer, founder of Eurasia Group and author of The Power of Crisis * Honest, passionate and unafraid to confront what is clearly one of the great challenges our species will face this century * Andrew McAfee, author of the The Geek Way * A much-needed dose of specificity, realism, and clarity * Martha Minow, professor at Harvard Law School * Incredibly compelling * Bruce Schneier, author of A Hacker's Mind * Thought-provoking, urgent and written in powerful, highly accessible prose * Erik Brynjolsson, author of The Second Machine Age * Deeply researched and highly relevant * Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States * Suleyman proposes an urgent agenda of actions governments must take now * Graham Allison, professor at Harvard University * Calm, pragmatic, and deeply ethical ... enthralling reading * Angela Kane, Former UN Under Secretary General * Deeply thoughtful ... meticulously researched and packed with original insights * Jason Matheny, CEO of RAND * A fantastically clear, energetic, well-researched and readable book from the frontline of the greatest technological revolution of our times * Sir Geoff Mulgan, professor at UCL * The best analysis yet of what AI means for the future of humanity. Mustafa Suleyman [is] one of the most important voices on the coming wave of technologies that will shape our world * Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn * A practical and optimistic road map * Stuart Russell, author of Human Compatible * A brave wake-up call ... Indispensable reading * Tristan Harris, executive director of the Centre for Humane Technology * A panoramic survey and a clarion call to action ... Everyone should read it * Fei-Fei Li, professor at Stanford University * Can we control these new technologies before they control us? ... Mustafa Suleyman is the ideal guide to this crucial question * Jeffrey D. Sachs, professor at Columbia University and president of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network * Sharp, compassionate, and uncompromising * Qi Lu, CEO of Miracle Plus; ex-COO Baidu and ex-EVP Microsoft Bing * Suleyman has given deep thought about what needs to be done to ensure that emerging technologies are used for human good ... A must-read * Meghan L. O'Sullivan, director at Harvard University * A persuasively argued tour-de-force * Nouriel Roubini, author of Megathreats * A strikingly lucid and refreshingly balanced account of our current technological predicament * Kevin Esvelt, associate professor at MIT * Realistic, deeply informed and highly accessible * Jack Goldsmith, professor at Harvard University *