"Experts may be the most likely source of incremental advances, but radical rethinks tend to come from outsiders."

Sebastian Mallaby is a journalist and author widely regarded as one of the world's leading commentators on global finance, economic policy, and the forces reshaping capitalism. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, he is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a longtime columnist for The Washington Post. Before that, he spent thirteen years at The Economist — reporting from Africa, Japan, and Washington — building a reputation for making complex systems legible and consequential.

He is the author of several acclaimed books, including More Money Than God, The Man Who Knew, and The Power Law. His most recent book, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, is a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller — and the product of rare, privileged access to the founder and inner workings of the world's most consequential AI laboratory.

"Thoroughly magnificent" — John Tammy, Forbes