Pete Trainor

Pete Trainor has spent two decades building Ai systems, helping organisations from healthcare to logistics understand how to use machine intelligence well. Then he looked at his comic book collection, built a cataloguing tool to map it, and realised the same technology he'd spent his career championing was quietly cannibalising an entire creative culture. Drawn to Extinction, his third book, is the result: a cultural autopsy of the comics industry written entirely without Ai, by someone who knows exactly what that choice costs. He's talked with Pat Mills, John Wagner, Ram V, Hannah Berry, and Frazer Irving about what's being lost and who's paying for it. He's not a convert or a critic. He's a practitioner with a conscience, and that's a rarer guest than you'd think.