Demis Hassabis mentioned Culture by Iain Banks 3 times

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.

— Demis Hassabis

Ian Banks’ Culture Series, which is his sort of Space Opera about how the universe would look after humanity has built AI and co-exists with it.

— Demis Hassabis

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... https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/966312919079112705

— Demis Hassabis