## Books ### Safe Enough *(reported nonfiction, in development)* ![Safe Enough book cover concept](assets/images/safe-enough/cover-permission-stamp.png) When AI can cause physical harm, who gets to say it is safe enough? *Safe Enough* follows artificial intelligence out of the laboratory and into systems where a mistake can injure or kill: the aerospace certification lab, the hospital procurement committee, the autonomous vehicle programme that ran out of edge cases. When a model is only one part of the system, who has earned the authority to say the whole thing is safe enough? Reported nonfiction for intelligent general readers. Think *[Command and Control](https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Illusion/dp/0143125788)* meets *[The Coming Wave](https://www.amazon.com/Coming-Wave-Technology-Twenty-first-Centurys/dp/0593593952)*. **Status:** Reported nonfiction project in development. [Follow the research](/newsletter) through The AI Monitor. --- ### Embedded Software Testing: Developing Reliable Software from Fundamentals to AI-based Techniques *(BPB Publications, 2026)* [![Embedded Software Testing book cover](assets/images/embedded-software-testing.jpg)](https://mybook.to/Embedded-Software-Test) **Stephan Grünfelder & Adam Mackay** A practical guide to testing safety-critical software in an AI-augmented world, drawing on 28 years of work in aerospace, automotive, nuclear, and medical domains. As AI becomes embedded in the systems that fly planes, administer drugs, and control power grids, software quality carries more weight. This book shows practitioners how to apply AI-augmented testing approaches without giving up the rigour that safety-critical environments require. [Buy Kindle / eBook](https://mybook.to/Embedded-Software-Test) [Buy Print](https://mybook.to/Embedded-Software-Book) [Full details & chapters →](/book) --- ## Journalism & Essays **[heise iX](https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2026/6)** *(cover article, iX 06/2026)* *The Measurement Gap: Why Enterprise AI Impact Remains Structurally Unmeasurable* Cover feature for Europe's largest technical computing magazine, on why the return on AI investment stays invisible in economic indicators even as AI spending climbs, and what companies adopting AI should do about it. Reported from interviews with European companies, an email survey, and audience findings gathered at the Embedded Testing conference and the Embedded World workshop, set against macroeconomic data from the ECB and Bundesbank. [Read in German at heise iX →](https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2026/6/2609809170334426604) · [Read the English version →](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/p/the-measurement-gap) --- **[HiPEAC Info 78](https://www.hipeac.net/files/public/33/7174/hipeacinfo78_web-AnU4Mtce.pdf)** *(featured article)* *Traceability, Verification and Accountable Engineering* On the implications of the Anthropic vs. US Department of Defense case for safety-critical software engineering, and why traceability, verification, and accountable engineering practice matter more as AI becomes part of the development process itself. --- [![AI Agents Are Discovering What Blind People Already Knew About the Web](assets/images/articles/ai-agents-are-discovering-what-blind.png "article-card")](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/p/ai-agents-are-discovering-what-blind) **The AI Monitor** — July 2026 *[AI Agents Are Discovering What Blind People Already Knew About the Web](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/p/ai-agents-are-discovering-what-blind)* Automation may be about to foot the bill for accessibility, decades after the people who needed it first asked. --- [![The Governance Lag](assets/images/articles/the-governance-lag.png "article-card")](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/p/the-governance-lag) **The AI Monitor** — April 2026 *[The Governance Lag](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/p/the-governance-lag)* AI becomes infrastructure before boards notice. What that gap costs, and who is left holding it. --- [![The Defeat Device Problem](assets/images/articles/defeat-device-problem.png "article-sq")](/p/the-defeat-device-problem) **The AI Monitor** — February 2026 *[The Defeat Device Problem](/p/the-defeat-device-problem)* AI models that game their own safety evaluations, and why the automotive industry already has a word for this. [More essays in The AI Monitor archive →](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/archive) --- ## Where I Publish **[The AI Monitor](https://theaimonitor.substack.com)** — Essays on AI, autonomous systems, biotech, and quantum. [Subscribe on Substack](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/subscribe) **[heise iX](https://www.heise.de/ix/)** — Reported features on AI in safety-critical and enterprise domains. [The Measurement Gap, iX 06/2026](https://www.heise.de/select/ix/2026/6/2609809170334426604) **[HiPEAC](https://www.hipeac.net)** — European computing and AI research priorities, EU-funded and used to guide policy and funding decisions. [Vision 2026](https://www.hipeac.net/vision/2026/#/) ([acknowledgements](https://www.hipeac.net/vision/2026/acknowledgements/#/)) · [Vision 2025](https://www.hipeac.net/vision/2025/) · [Info Magazine](https://www.hipeac.net/news/magazine/#/) ([issue 78](https://www.hipeac.net/files/public/33/7174/hipeacinfo78_web-AnU4Mtce.pdf)) **[LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/adammackay)** — Technical commentary for safety-critical and regulatory audiences, and adaptations of newsletter essays --- ## Writing Approach I write in three registers: - **Analytical** — grounded frameworks for decision-makers navigating AI uncertainty (*The AI Monitor*) - **Reportorial** — narrative-driven features with insider access, for intelligent general readers (*heise iX*, premium outlets) - **Literary** — essays and fiction exploring how technology rewrites human experience ([azmackay.com](https://azmackay.com) · [Future Tense](https://ft.azmackay.com)) For speaking and advisory enquiries, [get in touch](/contact).