You will soon live surrounded by Ais, which will organize your life, operate your business and run core government services.  You will live in a world of DNA printers, and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weaponise, robot assistants and abundant energy.

South Korean  President Kim Dae-Jung who was previously jailed for two years in the early 1980s when he was a political activist, he read over 600 books while imprisoned. One book stood out was The Third Wave by futurist Alvin Toffler, who explained about the information revolution which could transform the world as profoundly as the preceding agricultural and industrial revolutions.

Kim referred the Third Wave several times in his drive to turn South Korea into a technological powerhouse.

In The Coming Wave Mustafa Suleyman, one of the three co-founders of DeepMind,  part of Google, the London-based AI research company set up in 2010, focuses on the twin revolutions of artificial Intelligence and synthetic biology.

Ultimate Ai insider, Suleymen  shines light into the extraordinary possibilities that the revolution in AI and Synthetic biology could bring about.

AI, might unlock the secrets of the universe, cure diseases, and stretch bounds of imagination. Biotechnology can enable us to engineer life and transform agriculture. “Together they will usher in new dawn for humanity, creating wealth and surplus unlike anything we have ever seen” Suleyman writes.

AI can empower disinformation and cyberwarfare on an industrial scale and direct swarms of killer drones against civilians.

As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: un precedented harms on one side and the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.

Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia

Suleyman reveals how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order.

However, Suleyman admits the tech industry has failed to pay due care  and attention to collateral damage caused by their products which has contributed to widening of economic inequality and erosion of trust in democracy and  fast-proliferating new technologies.

“ I regard the often dismal picture painted in the following chapters as a titanic failures of technology and a failure of people like me who build it”, he writes.

He asserts  solving the climate change, or raising living standards or improving education is apparently only going to happen if new technologies are part of the package.

The Coming Wave: AI, Power and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar, Bodley Head £25, Crown $32.50, 352 pages.