'Fascinating, well-written, and important' Yuval Noah Harari\n'Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing' Stephen Fry\n'An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times' Bill Gates\n'Essential reading' Daniel Kahneman\n\nWe are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.\n\nSoon 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.\n\nNone of us are prepared.\n\nAs 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.\n\nIn 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.\n\nCan we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?\n\nThis 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.