What Did They Read?

The Infinity Machine

Sebastian Mallaby

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First heard29 September 2026
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Feel the AGI: Kevin Roose on the Strange, Intoxicating Race to Superintelligence

The Next Big Idea, 8 October 2026. The book comes up at 39 min 1 sec in. Said by Kevin Roose.

Kevin Roose briefly cites Sebastian Mallaby's biography of Demis Hassabis while discussing the DeepMind founder's quasi-religious motivation for building powerful AI. Roose notes the biography goes into far more detail about Hassabis's background than he was able to cover in The AGI Chronicles, pointing listeners toward it as a deeper source.

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Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.

The Ezra Klein Show, 29 September 2026. The book comes up at 1 hr 17 min in. Said by Bill Gates.

Bill Gates says he read this AI book about a month before the interview. He describes it as a history of Demas Hacibus [sic] and DeepMind, saying it conveys the whole founding of the industry and "does an incredible job." It was the third of three books he recommended when asked by Ezra Klein.

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