NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.” — Yuval Noah Harari
“Essential reading.” — Daniel Kahneman
“My favorite book on AI.” — Bill Gates, GatesNotes
A Best Book of the Year: CNN, The Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor
Winner: Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award
Finalist: Porchlight Business Book Award and Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the Year
An urgent call to confront the risks of AI and emerging technologies — from DeepMind co-founder and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman.
We are approaching a defining moment in human history. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, synthetic biology, and autonomous systems are advancing faster than governments or societies can manage. Soon, AI will organize daily life, run businesses, and influence global power structures — yet the world remains dangerously unprepared.
In The Coming Wave, Mustafa Suleyman draws on his experience at the forefront of AI innovation to reveal how this technological revolution will bring immense progress but also unprecedented threats. These fast-proliferating technologies could empower humanity — or destabilize it.
Suleyman warns that the very forces driving prosperity could also undermine the nation-state and global order. He calls this challenge “the containment problem” — the urgent task of maintaining control over technologies capable of transforming or destroying civilization.
With insight and clarity, Suleyman outlines how humanity can navigate this new era — balancing innovation with responsibility, freedom with safety, and progress with restraint.
This groundbreaking book is both a warning and a roadmap: a guide to understanding the technological forces reshaping our world and a call to act before it’s too late.
About the Authors
Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of both DeepMind and Inflection AI. One of the world’s leading voices in artificial intelligence, he has spent his career at the cutting edge of technological ethics and innovation.
Michael Bhaskar is a writer and publisher, author of The Content Machine, Curation, and Human Frontiers.
