The question everyone keeps asking is: Will AI save humanity or doom it? SEBASTIAN MALLABY goes to the heart of that question in his important new book, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence. Through his intimate portrait of Hassabis, one of the key players in the AI race, Mallaby provides a riveting and colorful story about how AI developed and how it is remaking the world with breathtaking—and sometimes alarming— speed. The author of six previous books, Mallaby will talk about Hassabis, his intellect, philosophy, and ambition and how the quest for superintelligence is driving a technological and profit arms race that is already surpassing the imaginings and ideals of its human creators, not to mention the rest of us.