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The Coming Wave review: How AI reshapes our world

How powerful is artificial intelligence? Where has it sprung from? Mustafa Suleyman's The Coming Wave is one of four disquieting books which set out to explore AI's hold on the world

13 September 2023

Close up of digital eye with layered graphics — A surveillance state is one of the extreme futures that may face us
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Mustafa Suleyman (with Michael Bhaskar) (Bodley Head)

David Runciman (Profile Books)

Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason (MIT Press)

Edward Geist (Oxford University Press)

A SORCERER’S apprentice decides to use magic to help clean his master’s castle. The broom he enchants works well, dousing the floors with pails full of water. When the work is finished, the apprentice tries to stop the broom. He can’t, so he tries to smash it. The broom splits and regrows, working twice…

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