CEO of DeepMind
“Huge congratulations Natasha and @gmmds - thoroughly well deserved. The Game Changer book brilliantly explained #AlphaZero and really has changed the chess world!!”
— Twitter/X
“excited for this, Banks' Culture series is brilliant. Consider Phlebas is one of my favourite books, I read it back in the day when I was programming Theme Park, the cheat code for the game is 'Horza', the main character from the book...”
— Twitter/X
“Very formative for me and I read that while I was writing Theme Park and I still think it's the best this picture of a post-AGI future, an optimistic post-AGI future, where we're traveling the stars and dumanity sort of reached its full flourishing.”
— 14 books Demis Hassabis mentioned, ranked!
“Yes agreed, diaspora is amazing, but I think it’s best to read permutation city first. Same with player of games and consider phlebas, although maybe it’s just cos that’s the order I read them in.”
— Twitter/X
“books recommended by Demis Hassabis”
— Demis Hassabis's Book Recommendations (updated 2025)
“Yes agreed, diaspora is amazing, but I think it’s best to read permutation city first. Same with player of games and consider phlebas, although maybe it’s just cos that’s the order I read them in.”
— Twitter/X
“All about a physicist struggling to find a final theory of everything.”
— 22 Demis Hassabis Recommended Books
by Isaac Asimov
“books recommended by Demis Hassabis”
— Demis Hassabis's Book Recommendations (updated 2025)
“Some of the really formative things on me were Asimov's Foundation series, so interestingly, not the robotics books, I haven't really read any of his robot books, but the Foundation series was this really amazing series of sci-fi novels.”
— 14 books Demis Hassabis mentioned, ranked!
by Douglas Hofstadter
“books recommended by Demis Hassabis”
— Demis Hassabis's Book Recommendations (updated 2025)
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #475: 1. Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions Of Evolution by Nick Lane”
— Lex Fridman Podcast #475 - Demis Hassabis - Book List | LexLib
by Vishal Maini & Samer Sabri
“books recommended by Demis Hassabis”
— Demis Hassabis's Book Recommendations (updated 2025)
“There's not many times where I read a book and come out with 20 new ideas I hadn't thought about before, and [this book] made me think like that.”
— Demis Hassabis Recommended Books
by Benjamin Labatut
“Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #475: 2. The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut”
— Lex Fridman Podcast #475 - Demis Hassabis - Book List | LexLib
“Yes agreed, diaspora is amazing, but I think it’s best to read permutation city first. Same with player of games and consider phlebas, although maybe it’s just cos that’s the order I read them in.”
— Twitter/X
by Douglas R. Hofstadter
by Richard Dawkins