Benjamin Labatut

Benjamin Labatut was born in the Netherlands in 1980 and raised in The Hague before settling in Chile, where he lives and works. His book “When We Cease to Understand the World” has been translated into over thirty languages: it was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, selected for Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List, and named a ‘Guardian,’ ‘New York Times,’ and ‘New Statesman’ Book of the Year. His most recent book, “MANIAC” (2023), explores the limits of reason by tracing the path from the foundations of mathematics to the delusions of artificial intelligence, following the figure of the most intelligent human being of the last century, the Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann.