Sebastian Mallaby on AI Safety and the Race for Superintelligence
The Good Fight
Yascha Mounk
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | It's like crazy. It's like, you know, it's kind of like, you know, 20 years of scenario |
| 0:34.7 | planning on the straight-of-form moves and you go and do it anyway, and it's on that level of idiocy. |
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| 0:46.3 | What makes the people who are inventing the most transformative technology of this moment, artificial intelligence, tick. |
| 0:58.7 | How is this technology going to influence the world? |
| 1:02.9 | How worry should we be about existential doom, which the founders of this technology themselves seem to take very seriously, and yet they are the |
| 1:13.2 | ones who are building the potential doomsday machine. What impact will artificial intelligence |
| 1:20.3 | have more broadly on our economy, on the job market, on our politics? And finally, how is the rise of the big AI companies transforming the power rankings in Silicon |
| 1:36.9 | Valley and in the United States? |
| 1:39.9 | Are they actually eclipsing in various ways the influence of venture capital, which ruled |
| 1:45.8 | supreme for the previous 15 years? Well, here to answer all of these questions is Sebastian Malaby, |
| 1:55.8 | one of the most distinguished writers about capitalism and the economy. He is the author among other distinguished |
| 2:05.1 | books of more money than God, hedge funds and the making of a new elite, and the power law, |
| 2:15.4 | venture capital and the making of the new future. His latest book, which we |
| 2:19.9 | focus on in this conversation, is called The Infinity Machine, and it both is a biography of |
| 2:26.8 | this technology and a biography of Demis Hasebis, one of the founders of Deep Mind. |
| 2:35.1 | In the last part of this conversation, we talked about the competition between the AI |
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