The Coming Wave review: How AI reshapes our world


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A surveillance state is likely one of the excessive futures that will face us

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The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman (with Michael Bhaskar) (Bodley Head)

The Handover
David Runciman (Profile Books)

The Age of Prediction
Igor Tulchinsky and Christopher E. Mason (MIT Press)

Deterrence Beneath Uncertainty
Edward Geist (Oxford College Press)

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