Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-09-29
Books mentioned on Bill Gates’s Blunt Warning on A.I.
Bill Gates thinks A.I.
Bill Gates recommended The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, Into the Wood Chipper by Nicholas Enrich, and The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Correspondent
The Correspondent by Virginia Evans is a touching and upbeat contemporary fiction novel written in an epistolary format that captivated readers and dominated bestseller lists.
Recommended“well when i literally binged this weekend was the correspondent by virginia evans that's you know fiction very touching very upbeat”
Where to get it
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Into the Wood Chipper
Into the Wood Chipper by Nicholas Enrich is a book that examines a dramatic real-world scenario involving institutional policy, bureaucratic missteps, and technological implementation.
Recommended“apropos of what we just discussed there's one called into the wood chipper by nicholas enric which talks about how uh somebody somebody didn't go to a party one weekend and they decided instead to put usa id uh into the wood chipper”
Where to get it
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The Infinity Machine
The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby is a comprehensive history of the artificial intelligence industry, focusing specifically on Demis Hassabis and the founding of DeepMind in the quest for artificial general intelligence.
Recommended“about a month ago i read the infinity machine by sebastian maliby uh ai book uh yeah history uh of uh dean demas asibis and deep mind but you get a sense of the whole founding of the ai industry does a uh an incredible job”
Where to get it
