#870: Sebastian Mallaby, Biographer of Demis Hassabis — Lessons from 100+ AI Insiders on The Race to Superintelligence, The Religion of AI, and Spotting Breakthroughs Early

Uh boy. Hello, boys and girls, ladies and chairs. This is Tim Ferris. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris Show, where it is my job to re-record my intro seven million times every time I do an episode. Just kidding. It's my job to interview world class performers and the people who study world class performers. My guest today is one of my favorite nonfiction authors, Sebastian. Maliby. He is the Paul A. Volker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a two time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the author of six books. Including more money than God. Love it. The power law. Love it. The man who knew.

And the world's banker, I've not read the latter two. Previously a columnist at the Washington Post and The Economist, Sebastian now co-hosts the CFR podcast, CFR is Council on Foreign Relations podcast, The Spillover, which examines the ripple effects of global events across policy, geopolitics, economics, finance, and technology. His latest book is The Infinity Machine, Demis Hasabas, Deep Mind, and The Quest for Superintelligence. And in this conversation we get into a lot. We get into his op ed's Different. Predictions I would hesitate to call them, observations.

of the AI ecosystem, how we actually timed it to get started. before the launch of GPT three point five. And much more. You can find Sebastian on X. At S C Mali. So that's S C

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