The Coming Wave

What it is about

Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar argue that increasingly capable AI and synthetic biology will be broadly accessible, economically irresistible, and difficult to contain. They explore the ‘containment problem’: how societies can capture benefits while limiting proliferation, misuse, concentration of power, institutional erosion, and catastrophic failure. It stays near me because the way intelligence is becoming a tool, a product, and a decision I still have to own should not become an idea I can praise from a safe distance.

Why I keep it

The wave is coming; I want to have read the warning before it lands.

Key ideas

Beside it on the shelf · AI & Technology