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Move 37: The Life of Demis Hassabis
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Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Paul D. Johnson
Published: Mar 13 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Demis Hassabis is the most consequential scientist of his generation - a chess prodigy, game designer, neuroscientist, and co-founder of DeepMind who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for teaching machines to predict the shape of life itself.
Move 37 is the story of how he did it.
Named for the moment in the 2016 AlphaGo match when an AI made a move no human would ever have played - and won - this biography traces the full arc of Hassabis's extraordinary life. From a childhood spent playing chess at international level and designing Theme Park as a teenager at Bullfrog Productions, to his PhD mapping the hippocampus at UCL, the founding of DeepMind in a secret London office, and the breakthroughs that followed - Atari, AlphaGo, AlphaFold, Gemini - Move 37 tells the human story behind the most ambitious scientific project in history.
At its centre is a single driving question, formed in the mind of an exhausted eleven-year-old watching chess grandmasters in a tournament hall near Liechtenstein: are we wasting our minds? What if all that intelligence could be aimed at something that actually mattered?
Hassabis spent three decades answering it. He built a company devoted to a five-word mission - solve intelligence, then use it to solve everything else - sold it to Google for 400 million, and then used the resources to predict the structure of every protein in the human body, opening a new era in drug discovery and disease research. Along the way he reshaped how the world thinks about artificial intelligence, consciousness, creativity, and what machines might one day become.
Written with the assistance of AI - and reviewed by competing AI systems in an act of adversarial fact-checking - Move 37 is itself a small piece of evidence for the thesis it describes. It is the biography of the man who may have started the most important technological transformation in human history, told with the urgency that story deserves.
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