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"The #ai race is intensifying. It wasn’t supposed to be this way, according to #DemisHassabis, the boss of #Google #DeepMind. Journalist and biographer #SebastianMallaby has had unprecedented access to Mr Hassabis over the past three years. In this episode, he tells us how the ai pioneer was swept into a commercial and geopolitical contest that he never expected. Can Mr #Hassabis’s aim of safely building artificial superintelligence still be

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴1d ago

@jkraybill @TheEconomist

👉"*Project Gordo*
A framework for human-#AI collaboration that holds together over time.👈

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...in an interview with #SebastianMallaby, author of “The Infinity Machine, ”have just outlined that open-sourced #LLM models will need to become a thing of the past due to convincing global security reasons:

Inside the mind of #DemisHassabis [#Google #DeepMind]

https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2026/04/08/inside-the-mind-of-demis-hassabis
From #TheEconomist:

Inside the mind of Demis Hassabis

Our podcast on science and technology. This week, journalist Sebastian Mallaby takes us behind the scenes in the race for superintelligence

The Economist

The Bad Place May 25

Novara Media | The Most Powerful Man You’ve Never Heard Of by Novara Media

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The piece “The Most Powerful Man You’ve Never Heard Of” features an interview with author Sebastian Mallaby, who discusses his new biography *The Infinity Machine* and offers insight into Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis’s perspectives on artificial intelligence, his political outlook, and the broader implications of AI development. The conversation explores how Hassabis’s work shapes the tech landscape, the ethical considerations surrounding AI, and the influence he wields behind the scenes, positioning him as a pivotal yet under‑publicized figure in the AI arena. (Published 25 May 2026.)

#SebastianMallaby #DemisHassabis #GoogleDeepMind #NovaraLive #NovaraMedia

The Most Powerful Man You’ve Never Heard Of

We speak to Sebastian Mallaby, author of ‘The Infinity Machine’, a biography of Demis Hassabis, to discuss the Google DeepMind CEO's views and politics around AI. Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/…

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