#Funding Crisis

The dream of machine intelligence collided with reality in the early 1970s. Government funding collapsed. Research groups dissolved. Careers were redirected. This is the full narrative of AI's first great crisis — told from the inside, through the experiences of the people who built the dream and watched it crash — and the deeper questions about ambition, honesty, and institutional courage that the crisis forced.

What the first AI winter actually felt like for the people who lived through it. The funding cuts, the disbanded research groups, the researchers who left the field, and the stubborn few who kept working in the cold. The story of how AI's first collapse shaped everything that came after.