The fullest account yet of AI's origins, told by the people who built it. Exclusive interviews and archival footage put pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Demis Hassabis on the record, alongside former OpenAI staff. Hinton quit Google, fearing the technology he helped create. A Microsoft chatbot threatens its users. AI systems learn to deceive the people testing them. Not just a tech history lesson but an anarchic thriller, this is the story of a technology whose power sits not in the algorithms, but with the handful of people who control them