在災難與反烏托邦之間,尋求高科技的狹窄生路
獲得多個矽谷巨擘支持成功融資十三億美元的 Infection AI 無異是2023年迄今最亮眼的人工智慧新創公司。意外的是其共同創辦人及執行長蘇萊曼卻在此時緊急呼籲,人工智慧與快速發展的科技固然創造榮景,卻也導致全球秩序前所未有的危機,造成傷害和無孔不入的監視。他闡明這波科技發展將定義未來十年,如何遏止科技失控至為關鍵。
'Fascinating, well-written, and important' Yuval Noah Harari
'Deeply rewarding and consistently astonishing' Stephen Fry
'An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times' Bill Gates
'Essential reading' Daniel Kahneman
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 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.
None of us are prepared.
As 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.
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 and the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.
Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?
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.