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

本書由 DeepMind 共同創辦人、現任微軟 AI 執行長穆斯塔法・蘇萊曼所撰寫，揭示快速發展的人工智慧與尖端科技，正以前所未有的速度改變人類社會。從量子電腦、DNA 印表機到自主武器、能源革命，這些變革既帶來繁榮，也威脅著全球秩序與人類自由。我們正處於歷史的臨界點，而我們尚未準備好。蘇萊曼提出關鍵問題：「人類該如何駕馭這波浪潮？如何在創新與監控之間找到平衡？」這是一本結合第一線經驗、深刻洞察與道德反思，為這個世代帶來提醒與思考方向。

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI

“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, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor • Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

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 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, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.
 
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.