We are approaching a critical turning point in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.
Soon you'll be living surrounded by artificial intelligence. It will organize your life, manage your business, and operate essential government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robotic assistants and abundant energy.
None of us are ready.As one of the founders of Google's leading AI company, DeepMind, Mustafa Suleiman has been at the heart of this revolution. He believes that the next decade will be defined by this wave of powerful and rapidly growing new technologies.In his book “The Next Wave**,” Solomon shows how these forces will lead to massive prosperity, but at the same time threaten the nation-state, the foundation of the world order. As our fragile governments unconsciously slide toward disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented damage on the one hand, and the danger of excessive surveillance on the other.
How do we ensure the prosperity of humanity? How do we maintain control? How do we take the narrow path towards a successful future?This groundbreaking book, written by one of the world's leading AI experts, establishes the “containment problem”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the fundamental challenge of our time.
