Why I wrote The Decade Intelligence Changed

The Decade Intelligence Changed: How AI Quietly Reshaped Work, Power, and Human Thinking in the 2020s is a short, self-funded, voluntary book written outside my day job. It came out in 2025, and it's available via Amazon, Waterstones and Foyles.

I won't summarise it here - that's what the book is for. But the framing is this: most of the public conversation about AI in the 2020s oscillates between "it will replace everyone" and "it will change nothing." Both are wrong in interesting ways, and both miss what's actually happening inside the organisations trying to use it.

The inside view

What I wanted to write down was the inside view. What it feels like to make AI useful, auditable and safe at the same time. The compromises. The surprises. The kinds of mistakes that only show up at scale, and the kinds that only show up to regulators.

I'm not a futurist. I'm an engineer who has spent two decades shipping things. The book reflects that. If you're looking for predictions about AGI, this isn't that book. If you're looking for an honest field report on what the technology does to organisations that adopt it seriously, you might like it.