The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman

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DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman argues that a coming wave of AI and synthetic biology will be the most transformative and potentially dangerous technological development in human history, and that the central challenge of our era is containment: maintaining control over technologies that trend toward proliferation and misuse. He proposes ten concrete steps for containment spanning technical safety, corporate governance, and international cooperation.

Published:: 2023
Pages:: 352

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In this collection, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma references 5 other books.

It draws on Superintelligence, Life 3.0 and The Second Machine Age.

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Suleyman's bibliography directly cites Bostrom's Superintelligence, and he engages with Bostrom's capability control and motivation selection frameworks when developing his own containment problem thesis, arguing neither approach alone can achieve adequate safety

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Superintelligence

by Nick Bostrom

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References Tegmark's Life 3.0 in his bibliography and builds on Tegmark's scenario analysis to argue that the coming wave makes several of the most concerning scenarios increasingly plausible within decades rather than centuries

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Life 3.0

by Max Tegmark

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Cites Brynjolfsson and McAfee's The Second Machine Age in his bibliography when discussing how AI's economic disruption will compound as the technology matures from narrow applications to general-purpose capability

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The Second Machine Age

by Erik Brynjolfsson

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References Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism in his bibliography when analyzing how the proliferation of AI-powered surveillance tools amplifies the power asymmetries Zuboff identified between technology companies and citizens

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff

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Engages with Ord's The Precipice framework on existential risk, arguing that the convergence of AI and synthetic biology creates compounding risks that demand the kind of civilizational-level response Ord advocates

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The Precipice

by Toby Ord

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