Sir Demis Hassabis & Sebastian Mallaby — The Quest for Superintelligence
Nobel Laureate and DeepMind founder discusses the future of AI with the author of 'The Infinity Machine.'
Why we picked this
A Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer in conversation about the most consequential technology of our era. Don't miss this one.
Demis Hassabis co-founded DeepMind, built AlphaFold (which predicted the structure of virtually every known protein), and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it. He is, by any measure, one of the most important figures in artificial intelligence alive today.
Sebastian Mallaby wrote “The Infinity Machine,” a deep-dive into DeepMind’s quest for artificial general intelligence. He’s exactly the right interlocutor — informed enough to ask hard questions, independent enough to push back.
City Arts & Lectures has a track record of hosting conversations that go beyond the usual tech-optimism talking points. This should be one of the most substantive public conversations about AI’s trajectory happening anywhere in 2026. Sydney Goldstein Theater is intimate enough that you’ll feel like you’re in the room for a private conversation between two people who understand the stakes.