Artificial intelligence’s unsung beginnings are found in power rather than computers, illuminating the dreams that underlie the hype that brought us to this point and our future. Ghost in the Machine approaches ubiquitous questions like “What is AI?”, “Who is building it?”, and “What will humans become?”

It is a welcome and necessary start to the hard conversations we need to have about AI, questioning the overriding narratives being told – should we really believe the people who stand to become the next trillionaires?