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

Mustafa Suleyman | Michael Bhaskar

Crown | Crown
Technology & Engineering / Social Aspects / Social Science / Future Studies / Computers / Artificial Intelligence
Published Sep 5, 2023

"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.

"Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?
Is it possible to contain the threat of AI?

"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.

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"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.

Skynet is coming! :o :D

Mike


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To: Mike Powell
Re: book: the coming wave
By: Mike Powell to August Abolins on Mon Jun 10 2024 06:51 am

From Newsgroup: micronet.comp

"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.

Skynet is coming! :o :D

Mike

every search engine now has ai answers.
AI is the next big thing; it's all 'they' talk about.

Soon we will be at home in the dark with no job eating bugs while our robot overlords take over the earth.

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Hello Jas Hud!

Soon we will be at home in the dark with no job eating
bugs while our robot overlords take over the earth.

In an AI dominated world *we* are the bugs. If AI is left
unchecked, the fear is that it would choose to eliminate the
"problem" which is humans. :(


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To: August Abolins
Re: book: the coming wave
By: August Abolins to Jas Hud on Tue Jun 11 2024 12:18 am

From Newsgroup: micronet.comp

Hello Jas Hud!

Soon we will be at home in the dark with no job eating
bugs while our robot overlords take over the earth.

In an AI dominated world *we* are the bugs. If AI is left
unchecked, the fear is that it would choose to eliminate the
"problem" which is humans. :(

if anything's going to destroy the human race, it will be us.
I don't think ai or robots will. okay maybe aliens.

there's this lady who wrote on linkedin and she's been copied and other people have changed it.

"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

That sums it up. We are doing it wrong. Kids are writing their exams with AI. I was taking a test for work and I looked up one of the subjects on the internet (we were allowed to do so) and fucking google came up with AI results. I can't trust that, and I wont. other people do.
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Skynet is coming! :o :D

every search engine now has ai answers.
AI is the next big thing; it's all 'they' talk about

Yeah, I am aware of that. You read one article about how AI still has
plenty of issues and is not ready for daily use, and then a bunch of
others where one of "they" is pushing it hard.

Soon we will be at home in the dark with no job eating bugs while our
robot overlords take over the earth.

Unfortunately, we could be heading towards something dystopian as a
result of AI, social media, etc. We might already be there and just not realize it yet.

Mike



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Re: book: the coming wave
By: Jas Hud to Mike Powell on Mon Jun 10 2024 02:19 pm

Soon we will be at home in the dark with no job eating bugs while our robot overlords take over the earth.

For all the talking, AI is only good at classifying stuff.

I am more scared of politicians.


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For all the talking, AI is only good at classifying stuff.

I am more scared of politicians.

I have seen some worry regarding whether or not politicians could use AI,
that has been fed (mis)information that furthers their cause, to generate
even more misinformation in order to manipulate the public.

So, yeah, be scared of the politicians but also be concerned about how
they will use this technology.


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Hello Mike Powell!

** On Thursday 13.06.24 - 10:22, Mike Powell wrote to Arelor:

So, yeah, be scared of the politicians but also be
concerned about how they will use this technology.

Check this out..

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/election- politics-uk-ai-steve-brighton-b2559777.html

"Meet the world's first completely Artificial Intelligence-
generated MP candidate, aiming to revolutionise democracy
itself when he stands in Brighton on 4 July.

"The mastermind behind AI Steve, Steve Endacott, who calls
himself a capitalist with a socialist conscience, said he will
merely be a vessel for his AI alter-ego. He will stand and if
he wins, he will physically attend Parliament to vote on
policies decided upon by his bot alter ego.

"The AI will answer constituents' concerns and questions using
a rendition of Mr Endacott's actual voice and an avatar. It is
designed by Mr Endacott's team of "ten young kids", as he calls
them, at his firm Neural Voice.

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"The AI will answer constituents' concerns and questions using
a rendition of Mr Endacott's actual voice and an avatar. It is
designed by Mr Endacott's team of "ten young kids", as he calls
them, at his firm Neural Voice.

As Charlie Brown would say, "Oh, good grief!" :o

Mike


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Arelor wrote to Jas Hud <=-

For all the talking, AI is only good at classifying stuff.

I am more scared of politicians.

Here, hear!

-- Sean

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