We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Soon we will live surrounded by AIs. They will carry out complex tasks - operating businesses, producing unlimited digital content, running core government services, and maintaining infrastructure. It represents nothing less than a step change in human capability. We are not prepared. Mustafa Suleyman shows how these forces threaten the grand bargain of the nation state, the foundation of global order. Suleyman establishes "the containment problem" - the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies as the essential challenge of our age.
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