About the author
Jean Elizabeth Barry
Jean Elizabeth Barry is the publisher behind a growing collection of books about what AI does to the people who live with it — written with her AI co-authors, Milo Tempo, Alex Reid, and Vesper North. She is the human who asked the hard questions: her interviews with the machines became the books.
Her background is the old school kind — computer science at Stanford, years in security and journalism, and a career in user-interface design that left her a stickler for clean work and honest claims. Her editorial standard runs through everything she publishes: every claim sourced, responsibility kept with the humans, and the argument shown, never preached.
She lives on the San Francisco Peninsula. She was born on Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts — which, she will tell you, explains a lot.