Liam Stanley
Press kit

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Assets

Author headshot

High-resolution portrait, print and web. Download →

Sample chapter

Chapter one, “The Six-Minute Mind”, as a PDF. Download →

One-page sell sheet

The book at a glance for commissioning. Download →

Quotable excerpts

Five pre-cleared passages, ready to lift. Read below →

The facts

Book at a glance

For producers and commissioners

Five interview angles.

Each is a self-contained conversation; a producer should be able to see the segment from the line alone.

The core thesis, in one move — the through-line from the first wave of attention-engineering to the second wave now coming for cognition.
What the people building these systems have actually said publicly about human cognitive labour — collected and read closely.
How AI is restructuring professional work in real time — the book’s spine character and the clearest single illustration of the argument.
The recalibration window — why interventions collapse at exactly the moment they begin to work, and what the research says works instead.
The Haidt-extension — what we now know about professional formation under AI, and what parents can actually do.
Pre-cleared for quotation

Excerpts

These passages may be quoted in coverage without further permission. Please cite as Stolen Minds by Liam Stanley.

“The story you have been told about AI — that it will assist you, augment you, free you for higher work — is the cover story.”

Four further cleared excerpts available in the downloadable press pack. Download →

Author bio · three lengths

Liam Stanley

50 words

Liam Stanley is a British technologist and creative entrepreneur with thirty years inside the technology industry, co-founding companies building behavioural-analytics, audience-intelligence and disinformation-monitoring tools. Stolen Minds is his first book, written against the commercial interests of the work it describes.

150 words

Liam Stanley is a British technologist and creative entrepreneur with thirty years inside the architecture his first book describes — from the earliest days of commercial internet adoption through to the AI systems now being built on top of it. He has co-founded companies building behavioural-analytics platforms, audience-intelligence systems, narrative- and disinformation-monitoring tools, and AI-powered creative platforms used by media organisations, news outlets, consumer brands, and political campaigns. The book is the product of his being in the rooms where the platforms’ techniques are deployed commercially, and in the rooms where their consequences on real audiences are measured. It is written against, rather than from, the commercial interests of that position. He is the father of two sons.

Contact

Press enquiries

For interviews and review copies:

liamstanleybooks@proton.me

Liam is available for podcasts, longform written press and radio. Strong availability for written and audio formats.