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“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, • Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the 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 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....
About the author
Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI. Previously he co-founded and was the CEO of Inflection AI, and he also co-founded DeepMind, one of the world's leading AI companies.
Michael Bhaskar is a writer and publisher, author of The Content Machine, Curation and Human Frontiers.
