In their new book Superagency, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and his coauthor Greg Beato argue for an ambitious and optimistic approach to AI, on

We’re producing vastly more information than any of us can possibly consume—artificial intelligence may be the key to effectively making use of that data.

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has been immersed in Silicon Valley since his August 1967 birth in Palo Alto, California, in the shadow of Stanford University, where he and fellow technology luminary Peter Thiel became friends as college students during the 1980s.