India, Feb. 21 -- OpenAI's Sam Altman and Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis have both indicated that we are poised to move beyond "narrow AI" in the next few years. Now is the time to anticipate what lies ahead -- promise and peril -- and plan. To do this, it is necessary to envision, to the furthest extent possible, what life ahead could look like. Against this backdrop, we recommend DeepMind co-founder and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's 2024 book, The Coming Wave. The book spells out the consequences of the push AI will give to human capacity and capability for unleashing unimaginable good, and untold harm: Imagine synthetic biology and AI being brought together to create a super-virus. Suleyman's prescriptions focus less on moratoriums on technological progress than on nebulous ideas of "non-proliferation", bans on specific use-cases, and increased safety research. Whether this can bring about the "containment" he urges is anybody's guess....