The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
Sat, Apr 20
|Zoom 9:00amPST/12:00pmEST
With Moderator: Affan Kermani - This groundbreaking new book from AI entrepreneur Mustafa Suleyman is a must-read guide to the technological revolution just starting, and the transformed world it will create.
Time & Location
Apr 20, 2024, 9:00 AM PDT – Jun 08, 2024, 9:00 AM PDT
Zoom 9:00amPST/12:00pmEST
Guests
About the event
The Coming Wave will meet once weekly beginning on Saturday, 20 April
Meeting Time on zoom: 9:00AM PST/ 12:00 PM EST)
Though participants are not required to attend meetings each week, due to limited spaces in each group, please ensure the meeting day and time suits your schedule. We would ask that all participants be able to attend most of the meetings, thank you.
Reading Schedule is easy to remember!
WE WILL READ TWO CHAPTERS EACH WEEK
After completing this registration process, you will receive a confirmation email that your place in the group chosen is reserved. One week prior to our first meeting you will receive an email from Kathy, your moderator, with all necessary schedule information, links and connections.
About The Coming Wave
In The Coming Wave, author Mustafa Suleyman establishes “the containment problem”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age. This groundbreaking new book from AI entrepreneur Mustafa Suleyman is a must-read guide to the technological revolution just starting, and the transformed world it will create. This is a story of 21st century technology, why it matters so much and what we can do to make it work for everyone. Soon we will live surrounded by AIs. They will carry out complex tasks—operating businesses, producing unlimited digital content and running core government services. The coming wave will make this next decade the most productive in history. It represents nothing less than a step change in human capability and human society, introducing both risks and innovations on an awesome scale. This is what is coming.
WE ARE APPROACHING A CRITICAL THRESHOLD IN THE HISTORY OF OUR SPECIES.
EVERYTHING IS ABOUT TO CHANGE.
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About Mustafa Suleyman
Mustafa Suleyman is the co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI. Previously he co-founded DeepMind, one of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies.
After a decade at DeepMind, Suleyman became vice president of AI product management and AI policy at Google.
When he was an undergraduate at Oxford, Suleyman dropped out to help start a non-profit telephone counseling service. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
About the moderator!
Affan is a US tax professional within the financial services industry. He survived Polio as an infant of twenty-eight days in the early seventies. As a person with disabilities, Affan has been on a lifelong journey seeking ways to manage muscle weaknesses, bone loss, and contain progressive disability that comes with Post Polio Syndrome. He discovered the ‘Whole Foods Plant’ lifestyle during the thick of COVID-19 and adopted the lifestyle evidencing a positive shift in energy and mobility.
As a 6D member with a passion for reading, Affan will be moderating book clubs and focusing on books that will lead minds to contemplate the human ability of ‘mind over matter’ and the influence of modern-day technology and environment, on how each of us can best navigate life for our individual needs of health and wellbeing.
6D Book Club Connections
- Weekly emails with topics for discussion, thoughts about our reading as well as links to relevant articles and videos
- 6D Community meetings every Week via Zoom
- 6D What's App Chat Group keep the discussion flowing over multiple time zones (open to all groups; the Whole of the 6D Book Club Community)
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After completing the registration process, you will receive a confirmation email that your place in this course is reserved. One week prior to our first meeting you will receive a reminder email with all relevant links and information to begin our journey together. If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to balance@6dliving.com prior to registering for a group, thank you. See our TERMS AND CONDITIONS page for our credit policy.
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