The Descent of Artificial Intelligence: Scenes from the Deep History of a Field 400 Years in the Making

A Radically Different History of AI Spanning Four Centuries of Research on Human Intelligence and Behavior

Kevin Padraic Donnelly is an associate professor of history at Alvernia University. His scholarship has appeared in the British Journal for the History of Science, History of Science, PUBLIC Journal, and History of Meteorology, and he has published several chapters in edited volumes on the role of statistics and science in shaping social thought. His previous book is a well-acclaimed history of the pioneering nineteenth-century statistician Adolphe Quetelet.