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This is a recording of the AI Book Club discussion of Sebastian Mallaby's <i><a href='https://www.amazon.com/Infinity-Machine-Hassabis-DeepMind-Superintelligence/dp/0735222521'>The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence</a></i>. In the discussion, we talk about the complex character of Demis Hassabis (and comparisons to Ender's game), the idea of founders' personal morality acting as a final safeguard, and the relentless acceleration of AI development. We also talk about the historical rivalries between deep learning and reinforcement learning, the growing urgency around AI-driven job displacement, and what it means to train AI to automate our own work.