The Thinking Machine

AI Has Gone Rogue. Here’s What We Should Do About It.

The Next Big Idea, 24 September 2026. The author is the guest. The book comes up at 2 min 47 sec in.

Host Rufus Griscom introduces guest Stephen Witt as the author of The Thinking Machine, a biography of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang (transcript transcribes the name as Jensen Wong), calling it "a fantastic biography" and "Just an extraordinary book, by the way, an extraordinary story." The book is referenced again mid-conversation to frame Huang's sceptical views on AI risk. Stephen Witt also refers to himself as "Jensen's biographer."

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