The Coming Wave : AI, Power, and Our Future

Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of the AI revolution, which is poised to become the single greatest accelerant of progress in history. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies. Driven by overwhelming strategic and commercial incentives, these tools will help address our global challenges and create vast wealth—but also upheaval on a once unimaginable scale. In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces threaten the grand bargain of the nation state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms arising from unchecked openness on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other. Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia?

In this "extraordinary, utterly unmissable" (Eric Schmidt) book from the ultimate AI insider, Suleyman establishes “the containment problem”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.