Wow! You won't know what you don't know about the deep roots of artificial intelligence in human consciousness until you read dream team Dave Bradley and Kelly Vero's Myth-Made Machines. From golems and Daoist automata to HAL 9000 and C-3PO, all the gods and monsters of our collective imagination are here. It turns out, we have been warning ourselves about the critical AI moment we now face for millennia. Open this Pandora's box of a book and prepare to have your mind blown.

Japhet Asher, creator, Liquid Television

Every generation seems condemned to relearn the lessons of the art and literature that came before it. In this nimble, accessible survey, Bradley and Vero remind us that contemporary debates about artificial intelligence are only the latest installments in a conversation that has been underway for centuries.

Alec Nevala-Lee, Hugo Award finalist, "Astounding"

AI has been in the human imagination for as long as we could conceive of making machines in our own image. Now that it is here and developing every day, we have largely forgotten the richness of our ideas that gave birth to the innovation to begin with. Dave Bradley and Kelly Vero remind us of what AI has meant to us in cultural memory, and in doing so gives us a window into what it still might be.

Rebecca Liao, CEO and co-founder, Saga

We humans swing between science and belief, and Myth-Made Machines brings to life our fascinating attempts to manifest these ideas in codified and physical form. Bridging the past and the future with panache, this book demonstrates that a deep understanding of history is essential for grasping what lies ahead. Bradley and Vero have given us a map from which we can navigate the complex future of AI, robotics and humankind's place within it.

Guy Gadney, CEO, Charismatic.ai

A grand tour of humanity's exponential obsession with machine intelligences, Myth-Made Machines deserves to be essential reading for everyone fascinated by AI's enduring role in popular culture.

Tom Hunter, director, Arthur C. Clarke Award

Blending cultural history with insights from games, film, and technology, Kelly Vero and Dave Bradley trace humanity's enduring fascination with artificial intelligence. Insightful, wide-ranging, and deeply thought-provoking, it explores what our imagined machines really say about us, humans.

Joana Lenkova, founder, Futures Forward