The Coming Wave⁠ (Suleyman, 2023) - Weekend Book Review

Welcome to Revise and Resubmit, your one-stop destination for insightful book reviews and academic explorations. This episode of Weekend Book Review takes a deep dive into a book that promises to reshape how we think about the future: The Coming Wave (www.the-coming...) by Mustafa Suleyman, co-written with Michael Bhaskar.
Let’s start with Mustafa Suleyman, a name synonymous with innovation in artificial intelligence. As the co-founder of DeepMind, the trailblazing AI company acquired by Google, Suleyman has been at the forefront of technological revolutions for over a decade. Today, he leads Inflection AI, further cementing his role as a visionary in this field. And then there’s Michael Bhaskar, a UK-based author and publisher, known for thought-provoking works like The Content Machine. Together, they bring a potent mix of insider knowledge and literary finesse.
The Coming Wave isn’t just a book-it’s a wake-up call. Suleyman takes us on a gripping journey into a future dominated by AI and synthetic biology. He paints a world where DNA printers, quantum computers, and autonomous systems are not science fiction but our daily reality. But here’s the twist: with great innovation comes great peril. This book is about navigating the narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia, and forging a future where technology works for humanity-not against it.
As I read, one thought kept lingering: How do we, as individuals, prepare for a world that seems both exhilarating and terrifying?
A big thank you to Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar for this groundbreaking work, and to Crown for bringing this book to the world. If you found this review insightful, subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify and check out our TH-cam channel, Weekend Researcher. You can also find us on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcast.
Here’s the question we leave you with today: Can we, as a society, contain the very technologies we’ve unleashed?
Reference
Suleyman, M. (2023). The coming wave: technology, power, and the twenty-first century's greatest dilemma. Crown. www.the-coming...
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