Genius Makers

In Genius Makers, technology journalist Cade Metz chronicles the fierce contest to develop artificial intelligence and place it at the centre of global technology. Drawing on extensive reporting and interviews, Metz follows the researchers, visionaries and corporate leaders who moved AI from the fringes of academic study into the heart of major global companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft.

The book traces the breakthroughs of key researchers—including a determined university professor and an ambitious neuroscientist and chess prodigy—whose ideas sparked a massive race among Silicon Valley giants and international competitors. As enormous resources flowed into AI laboratories, these innovators grappled with profound dilemmas surrounding ethical use, personal privacy, automated bias and the future of human society.

Providing an engaging, human perspective on the machines reshaping our lives, Genius Makers offers general readers, students and tech professionals a clear and gripping narrative of how our digital present was built and what its development means for the future.