Mustafa Suleyman on the historic moment when AI, robotics and biotech unite. And what people have to do beforehand.
Mustafa Suleyman was co-founder of the company Deepminds in London, which made several epochal breakthroughs in the development of artificial intelligence possible. In 2016, their AI AlphaGo defeated the world board game champion Go Lee Sedol. The successor model AlphaGo Plus taught itself the game without entering any data and beat the previous version in 100 out of 100 games. With its AI AlphaFold, the company simulated the folding of all 200 million known proteins and made them available to science in 2021. In 2022 he founded the company InflectionAI, which develops the chatbot Pi.ai released, which is supposed to text more emphatically than Chat-GPT. In his book “The Coming Wave” (translated into German by Andreas Wirthensohn, CH Beck, Munich, 2024. 377 pages, 28 euros), Suleyman and his co-author Michael Bhaskar warn that future technologies such as AI, robotics and biotech will become one a big wave that humanity cannot handle. Suleyman responded to questions via email.