Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, discusses the transformative power of AI and its ethical challenges in society. He argues for proactive government involvement in AI, emphasizing the need for expertise in navigating its rapid advancement. Suleyman also addresses the sustainability of AI development and its potential in fields like education and healthcare. He highlights the importance of collaboration to harness AI's capabilities responsibly, while also tackling the threats posed by deepfakes and synthetic media.
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Government’s Role in AI
Governments should build technology themselves to understand and control it better.
They also need technical experts in cabinet positions and should take risks with regulation.
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Tech Industry Polarization on Government
Polarization exists in the tech industry regarding government’s role.
Some believe technology can thrive without government, while others see it as a necessary component.
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Public Fear and the Singularity
Public fear stems from powerful individuals shaping AI with disdain for the state.
The singularity is an unhelpful framing, focusing on distant concerns over practical near-term capabilities.
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The Coming Wave
Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman
The Coming Wave delves into the impending technological revolution driven by AI and synthetic biology, arguing that this wave will have a more dramatic impact on humanity than any previous technological advancement. Suleyman discusses how these technologies will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state and global order. He examines historical technological waves and their societal implications, proposing the 'containment problem' as the essential challenge of our age. The book explores the potential for catastrophic harms, overbearing surveillance, and the need to forge a path between catastrophe and dystopia. Suleyman offers 10 steps to contain the rapid expansion of these technologies, though he acknowledges the complexity and potential failure of such containment efforts[1][3][5].
This the second instalment of our three-part episode. Mustafa Suleyman is the ultimate AI insider. As co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, he is one of the pioneers of the artificial intelligence revolution, potentially the single greatest accelerant of progress in history. His new book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma, asks questions about whether society is prepared for such rapid change. In the first of a three-part conversation for this episode of Intelligence Squared, Suleyman joined Zanny Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, live at the Tabernacle theatre in London to explain how he believes we are approaching a critical threshold in the history of humankind.
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