Aloha, Namaste, and welcome Tim Politic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey joint.

And if you are a sentient, news-consuming, cell phone toting, laptop-tapping human being in this Their of Our Lord, 2026, you are almost certainly familiar with

the following three names, Sam Altman, Dario Modi, and Elon Musk. You know that these are the poster

boys of the AI Revolution. You know that Altman, CEO of Open AI, is the industry's reigning

black hat, subject of a brutal deep dive in the New Yorker

a couple weeks back in which pretty much everyone he's ever worked with described him as a

pathological liar, power mad narcissist and borderline sociopath. You've also been reading

a lot, hearing a lot recently about Emote, the CEO of Anthropic and AI's new self-styled lone

ranger, donning a white 10-gallon Stetson as he battles the Pentagon over the deployment of

the firm's technology for mass surveillance and autonomous legal weapons. And then, of course,

there's Musk, about whom enough said. But even if you know all of that and more about Altman, Emote, Musk, and their race to rule

the AI roost, I'd be willing to bet a hefty wad of cash that you don't know much if you

know anything at all about Demis Hasabas, which is kind of curious for at least two reasons.

First, Asabas' story is pretty fascinating.

Born to immigrant parents in London,

childhood chess grandmaster and teenage video game design prodigy.

Asabas went on to found an early AI startup called Deep Mind and is now the field general in charge of all of AI at Google.

Which brings us to the second reason why you really ought to know about this guy and why it's such

an odd and inexplicable thing that he remains so obscure and undercovered. Given his role at what

remains arguably the most powerful tech company on the planet and the combination of qualities that caused one source to tell our guest today

that Hizabas would almost certainly be the first billionaire to also win a Nobel Prize,

which he did in chemistry in 2024.

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