Book · 2023 · Technology & Engineering
The Coming Wave
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The Coming Wave is just a wonderful breakdown of historic examples of new technology completely transforming humanity.
Duncan Trussell · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026 Listen at 9:19 What they say about it
- Discusses specific chapters“chapter 8 you talk about”6
The best things said about it
The coming Wave by Suliman I think does the most even-handed job of assessing the future of AI particularly by someone in the business.
Thank you so much for writing such a great book it's wonderful to read a book on this subject matter that does present solutions.
One book is called The Coming Wave. It's by one of the co-founders of OpenAI, and it's really fascinating.
Andrew Wilkinson My First Million · Dec 2023 The first chapter of your book The Coming wave is a is is a is titled appropriately to how I feel containment is not possible.
In chapter 8 you talk about unstoppable incentives at play here the coming wave represents the greatest economic prize in history.
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Why people recommend it
The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar is a critical examination of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, warning of the immense disruptive power these technologies pose to global stability and society. Duncan Trussell praised the book on The Joe Rogan Experience, calling it a wonderful historical breakdown of how new innovations transform humanity. Chris Sacca recommended it on The Tim Ferriss Show for providing the most even-handed assessment of the future of AI from someone directly operating within the industry. Steven Bartlett featured Suleyman on The Diary Of A CEO and strongly recommended the book for offering tangible solutions alongside its warnings. Jason Calacanis also discussed the book with Suleyman on This Week in Startups, encouraging listeners to preorder the text and audiobook to understand the coming technological shifts. Additionally, Stephen Dubner and Andrew Wilkinson discussed Suleyman's perspective on the book's podcast tour, exploring extreme predictions regarding the future cost of medical diagnosis and how emerging technologies will radically disrupt work and daily life.
Every mention
Jason Calacanis and the book's called the coming wave which is I didn't realize you had the book I'm going to read it this… 2
Recommended
“and the book's called the coming wave which is I didn't realize you had the book I'm going to read it this week and I'm going to order the audio book now”
Recommended
“look forward to reading the book uh comes out on September 5th everybody pre-order it tell me the name one more time of the book uh it's the coming wave the coming wave”
Steven Bartlett thank you so much for writing such a great book it's wonderful to to to read a book on this subject matter… 9
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“He was in the coming wave. I did. Yeah. And he speaks about about pessimism aversion.”
Discussed
“saw another term in your your book called ACI”
Discussed
“the first chapter of your book The Coming wave is a is is a is titled appropriately to how I feel containment is not possible”
Discussed
“as you write in your book in chapter 4 there seems to be no upper limit to ai's potential intelligence”
Discussed
“in chapter 7 you say line in your book that AI is more autonomous than any other technology in history”
Discussed
“You discussed this in Chapter 13 of your book where you which is titled containment must be possible”
Discussed
“in chapter 8 you talk about Unstoppable incentives at play here the coming wave represents the greatest economic prize in history”
Discussed
“page 284 of your book The Last Page think about how much of your day you spend looking uh screen”
Recommended
“thank you so much for writing such a great book it's wonderful to to to read a book on this subject matter that does present Solutions”
Chris Sacca the coming Wave by Suliman I think does the most even-handed job of assessing the future of AI particularly… 1
Recommended
“the coming Wave by Suliman I think does the most even-handed job of assessing the future of AI particularly by someone in the business”
Duncan Trussell He wrote this book, The Coming Wave. He uh he was one of the people who created Google's Deep Mind, right?… 1
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“He wrote this book, The Coming Wave. He uh he was one of the people who created Google's Deep Mind, right? And The Coming Wave is just a wonderful breakdown of historic examples of new technology completely transforming humanity.”
Andrew Wilkinson So, one book is called The Coming Wave. It's by one of the co-founders of OpenAI, and it's really fascinating. 1
Discussed
“So, one book is called The Coming Wave. It's by one of the co-founders of OpenAI, and it's really fascinating.”
Mustafa Suleyman yeah I mean I I have a whole section about that in the book which I really enjoyed writing I mean it's it's… 1
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“yeah I mean I I have a whole section about that in the book which I really enjoyed writing I mean it's it's about exactly that story because the costs of production are going through the floor”
Scott Galloway I was speaking to Mustafa Solomon who was the one of the co-founders of and Mustafa yeah yeah yeah one of t… 1
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“I was speaking to Mustafa Solomon who was the one of the co-founders of and Mustafa yeah yeah yeah one of the co-founders of m Deep Mind which sold to Google and in his new book The Coming wave he talks about how all of these breakthroughs in technology”
Stephen Dubner I heard him say that if AI proceeds as he sees it that the cost of medical diagnosis will eventually drop t… 1
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“I heard him say that if AI proceeds as he sees it that the cost of medical diagnosis will eventually drop to zero”
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Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“Of course, you know, guys like Elon Musk and a lot of the books written about this like the coming wave put the odds low because humanity hopefully intervenes.”
Plugged
“as I say in the book on the face of it it does look like containment isn't possible”
Passing
“I mean you've written a book about it”
Plugged
“that's really the essence of what I'm sort of trying to raise in my book is to frame the challenge of the next 30 to 50 years as around containment”
Plugged
“and I've basically written the book to say prove that I'm wrong”
Plugged
“but I've actually just written a book uh called the coming wave um and it basically looks at um all of the threats basically uh that AI might create over the next 10 to 15 years”