The Coming Wave

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        我們即將跨過人類歷史上的關鍵點。一切都將徹底改變。
 
        很快地，我們的生活中將充斥著人工智慧。它們將執行複雜的任務──從協助你的生活大小事，到營運企業、生產數位內容、甚至運行核心的政府服務。人類將邁向一個擁有DNA印表機、量子電腦、人造病原體、自主武器、機器人助理和充沛能源的世界。那代表了人類能力的大躍進。
 
        但，我們還沒準備好迎接這一切。
 
        穆斯塔法．蘇萊曼身處在這場變革的中心，他指出，這一波強大、急速成長的科技浪潮，將定義未來的十年。這股能量將有助於處理全球挑戰，並創造巨大財富──但同時也可能製造超乎想像的劇烈動盪，威脅全球秩序的基礎。當脆弱的政府不知不覺陷入災難，我們面對的將是兩難處境：一方面是放任開放所帶來的傷害，另一方面則是專橫的監控帶來的威脅。我們能夠在大災難和反烏托邦的夾縫之間，走出一條道路嗎？
 
        面對這些潛在、不容忽視的風險，蘇萊曼在這部充滿開創性的作品中，提出了「遏止問題(the containment problem)」──亦即對於強大的科技，維持一定控制能力的任務──作為這個時代人類最重要的挑戰。(文/博客來編譯)
   
“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”—Yuval Noah Harari
“Essential reading.”—Daniel Kahneman
“An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times.”—Bill Gates
 
        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 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, 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.
 

Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI. Previously he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI companies. After a decade at DeepMind, Suleyman became vice president of AI product management and AI policy at Google. Michael Bhaskar is a writer and publisher, author of The Content Machine, Curation and Human Frontiers.