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Mustafa Suleyman publishes The Coming Wave

An AI lab founder argues the technology may outrun our ability to control it

Key facts

Date
5 Sep 2023
Era
The ChatGPT shock
Interest
Books
Threads
Safety & governance
Author
Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar
Publisher
Crown (US), 5 Sep 2023
Core idea
“The containment problem”

Suleyman, a co-founder of DeepMind, argues with co-author Michael Bhaskar that AI and other fast-spreading technologies such as synthetic biology will outpace the institutions meant to control them. He calls this “the containment problem” and sets out what containment would take.

Sources

  1. Penguin Random House, The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman, 2023-09-05