Daniel Goran's Key Ideas from The Coming Wave
by Mustafa Suleyman

AI has a ton of risks but there is no way we can put the genie back into the bottle. The incentives are such that once out there every company or government will take advantage of this.

The AI is reducing the barriers to entry to exercise power. AI will create an explosion in power not necessarily an explosion of intelligence. 

The power of AI lays in what it can do not just in what in can say. With this in mind the focus on AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is a distraction. Mustafa Suleyman proposes the term ACI (Artificial Capable Intelligence) as a way to evaluate AI based on capabilities. Can it:

• browse the web
• make API calls
• phone and speak with humans or AIs
• etc…

Artificial Intelligence is about the power coming from the:

• Ability to take action
• Ability to synthesise information
• Ability to make predictions
• Ability to affect the world around us

Everything around us is affected by intelligence. Scaling this capability haz enormous potential and risk. 

We should be able to demonstrate to ourselves that the tech we are building is serving us. Tech should not be allowed to get out of control. 

"Containment" was once the byword for an American foreign policy aimed at limiting the Soviet Union's expansion. Suleyman does not see AI as a Soviet-style adversary, but thinks retaining human control of AI will require the same kind of long-range master plan as the Cold War.