#Lighthill Report

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.

In 1973 a distinguished mathematician named James Lighthill wrote a review of AI research that was so devastating it caused governments across the world to pull their funding and sent the entire field into its first winter. How one document changed the course of AI history — and whether it was right.