Sebastian Mallaby is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller: The Infinity Machine - Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.He negotiated unprecedented access to DeepMind in November 2022 , a week before ChatGPT launched. He spent 30+ hours in a pub with Demis Hassabis. He interviewed Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Mustafa Suleyman and Geoffrey Hinton among 100 people in AI.He's the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. A two-time Pulitzer finalist. The author of The Power Law and More Money Than God.In this episode we discuss:⚔️ The moment ChatGPT launched and Demis told him “they parked the tanks on my lawn”📉 Why OpenAI has a 50% chance of failing by the middle of next year🇪🇺 Why Bezos is opening an AI office in King's Cross and why the time to bet on Europe is now💰 The $1 billion offer from Reid Hoffman to spin DeepMind out of Google🚪 The Elon Musk, LA closet Skype call, that almost stopped the Google sale🔥 Who we should actually trust with superintelligence

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