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Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
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Peggy Kurkowski
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Throughout history, technological progress has come in rolling waves, but the next "great wave"—embodied in the high-speed advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology—threatens humanity with as many dangers as opportunities, according to AI insider Mustafa Suleyman in The Coming Wave.
Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, is not chary with his words of warning regarding these history-shaking technologies, which makes The Coming Wave a timely (if not very reassuring) treatise on why and how containment should be the watchword of the day. The warning is well taken, as Suleyman outlines how AI and synthetic biology (defined as the ability to design and engineer new organisms or redesign existing biological systems) are "unleashing the power to engineer these two universal foundations: a wave of nothing less than ...
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