A book-warning about the unprecedented risks and challenges brought by Artificial Intelligence and other rapidly developing technologies, from a co-founder of Google DeepMind, the world's leading AI company. We are at the dawn of a new era. The coming years will change everything around us: the way we live, work, and organize our societies.

Soon, Artificial Intelligences will not just be tools but will determine the flow of our daily lives, managing everything from our businesses to the most critical government services. We are already on the threshold of a world where the boundaries between the imaginary and the real become blurred: quantum computers, DNA printers, autonomous weapons, and genetically modified pathogenic foods will be part of our lives. And although these technologies promise unimaginable opportunities, none of us is prepared for the risks they bring with them.

Mustafa Suleyman, one of the pioneers in the field of Artificial Intelligence, has firsthand experience of this technological revolution. In The Coming Wave, he attempts to warn us: rapidly developing technologies will bring immense prosperity but at the same time threaten to undermine the very core of the global order: the nation-state. As governments, unprepared, remain inactive in the face of these radical changes, the world risks being led either into catastrophic crises or into a dystopian future of absolute control and surveillance.

The Coming Wave presents the most serious and decisive struggle of our time: managing technology to harness its potential without destroying what we have created. Combining deep knowledge with calmness and careful analysis, Suleyman guides us through this unknown and unstable path, proposing strategies to avoid disaster and create a sustainable, safe, and prosperous world. This book is essential reading for those who want to understand the coming technological storm and how we can chart a course between the Scylla and Charybdis that await us.