The Infinity Machine

An extraordinary portrait of our age – beautifully written, clear-eyed and engaged in the deepest ethical questions of our day – Rory StewartIn this deeply reported and profoundly insightful book, Sebastian Mallaby chronicles the brilliant Demis Hassabis and the company he cofounded … a colourful and engrossing tale but also a sophisticated description of how AI developed – Walter Isaacson, author of Elon Musk Sebastian Mallaby has tunnelled deeply into one of the most influential artificial intelligence projects of our time. It’s an entrancing and revealing journey … at once inspiring and terrifying – Steve Coll, author of The Achilles Trap Captures the extraordinary drama of the high-stakes AI arms race … a gripping story about ambition colliding with ethics at the frontier of machine intelligence – Chris Miller, author of Chip War A truly revealing window into the biggest business phenomenon of our age … a quest for superhuman intelligence that already has far outraced the ideals and imaginings of its human creators – Margaret O’Mara, author of The Code With his customary flair, Sebastian Mallaby relays the enchanting tale of how the British son of a Chinese Singaporean mother and Greek Cypriot father led google to pole position in the AI race and picked up a Nobel prize along the way – Michael Moritz, author of Leading The Infinity Machine will teach you a lot about AI, and how human ability, vision, and tenacity remake the world – Andrew McAfee, author of The Geek Way

Sebastian Mallaby is the author of several books including The Power Law, More Money Than God, and The Man Who Knew, which won the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. A former Financial Times contributing editor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.