## Books --- ### AI for Dinosaurs *(narrative nonfiction, in development)* [![book cover: AI for Dinosaurs](assets/images/ai_for_dinosaurs.png)](newsletter.html) What happens when the most powerful technology ever created meets the industries where failure isn't a bug report — it's a body count? *AI for Dinosaurs* follows engineers, executives, regulators, and patients through real situations where AI meets the physical world: the aerospace certification lab, the hospital procurement committee, the autonomous vehicle programme that ran out of edge cases. Narrative 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:** Sample chapters in development — [get updates via the newsletter](newsletter.html) --- ### 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.png)](https://mybook.to/Embedded-Software-Test) **Stephan Gruenfelder & Adam Mackay** The definitive guide to testing safety-critical software in an AI-augmented world. Distils 28 years of hard-won lessons from aerospace, automotive, nuclear, and medical domains. As AI becomes embedded in the systems that fly planes, administer drugs, and control power grids, the stakes around software quality have never been higher. This book shows practitioners how to apply modern AI-augmented testing approaches without sacrificing the rigour that safety-critical environments demand. [Buy Kindle / eBook](https://mybook.to/Embedded-Software-Test) [Buy Print](https://mybook.to/Embedded-Software-Book) [Full details & chapters →](book.html) --- ## Journalism & Essays **[heise iX](https://www.heise.de/ix/)** *(cover article, forthcoming)* *The Measurement Gap: Why Enterprise AI Impact Remains Structurally Unmeasurable* Reported feature on why enterprise AI productivity measurement is structurally impossible — drawing on industry interviews at Embedded World and Embedded Testing, macroeconomic data from the ECB and Bundesbank, and a named interviews. Europe's largest technical computing magazine. --- [![The Architecture of Control](assets/images/articles/architecture-of-control.png "article-sq")](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/architecture-control-adam-mackay-lzdne) *[The Architecture of Control](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/architecture-control-adam-mackay-lzdne)* — The AI Monitor The organisations that survive the collision with AI will not be the ones with the sharpest tools. They will be the ones with the steadiest hands. --- [![The August Problem](assets/images/articles/august-problem.png "article-sq")](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/august-problem-adam-mackay-kf8de) *[The August Problem](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/august-problem-adam-mackay-kf8de)* — The AI Monitor The EU AI Act's high-risk deadline arrives in six months. The industries that actually know how to do safety engineering are not ready. --- [![From Safety to Impact](assets/images/articles/from-safety-to-impact.png "article-sq")](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-safety-impact-adam-mackay-rnghe) *[From Safety to Impact](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-safety-impact-adam-mackay-rnghe)* — The AI Monitor A name change at the global AI summit follows a pattern every safety-critical industry has learned to regret. [More essays in The AI Monitor archive →](https://theaimonitor.substack.com/archive) --- ## Where I Publish **[The AI Monitor](https://theaimonitor.substack.com)** — Weekly 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 **HiPEAC** — European AI and computing research priorities. [HiPEAC Vision 2025](https://www.hipeac.net/vision/2025/) · [HiPEAC Magazine](https://www.hipeac.net/news/magazine/#/) **LinkedIn** — Technical commentary for safety-critical and regulatory audiences --- ## 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.html).