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

by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar

A co-founder of DeepMind (and later CEO of Microsoft AI) makes the case that AI and synthetic biology are converging into a technological wave unlike anything before it: cheaper, faster, and more general-purpose than any prior innovation.

Suleyman does not traffic in optimism or doom. His central argument is the containment problem: the challenge of maintaining meaningful control over technologies that proliferate faster than institutions can adapt. He believes we can thread this needle, but only if we take the problem seriously now.

One of the most credible insider accounts of where AI is actually headed. Required reading for policy, technology ethics, and STS courses.