Techno-optimist, investor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has written a new book, “Superagency,” outlining his vision of an AI-powered future. On Wednesday, Feb. 5  T, Hoffman joins The Post’s Bina Venkataraman to discuss how AI could help address the world’s most urgent problems and the future of human agency in the AI era.

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.

LinkedIn (MSFT) co-founder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman on Monday launched an AI startup aimed at discovering new treatments for cancer.