The Infinity Machine

The highest praise for The Infinity Machine is to say that Mallaby has done full justice to his kaleidoscopically interesting subject … expertly structured and vividly reported, the book presents the most insightful portrait of Hassabis to date – Financial Times * John Thornhill *When it comes to recounting the scientific challenges, Mallaby captures wonderfully the tension, the excitement and the joy – Tom Whipple * The Times *With unprecedented access, Mallaby had a front row seat… what results is a rich and clearly written account – Gideon Lichfield * Economist *An extraordinary portrait of our age – beautifully written, clear-eyed and engaged in the deepest ethical questions of our day – Rory StewartGripping, absolutely of the moment… I loved it because it’s filled with really important ideas about how this wave of AI is changing our economy… but it’s also got the element of a thriller – Robert Peston * The Rest is Money *A hugely acclaimed recent book…a lot of people are talking about – Amol Rajan * Today Programme *Fascinating – Fareed Zakaria * CNN *In 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

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.