39 Books About AI
What should the 40th book be? | Edition #314
The past 39 book recommendations from my AI Book Club are listed below. If you are interested in diving deep into AI, start here:
“Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence” by Kate Crawford
“The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma” by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar
“Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines” by Joy Buolamwini
“The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI” by Fei-Fei Li
“Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI” by Urs Gasser and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
“AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future” by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
“Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code” by Ruha Benjamin
“The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology” by Nita Farahany
“The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future” by Orly Lobel
“Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI” by Madhumita Murgia
“Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI” by Yuval Noah Harari
“Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us” by Gary Marcus
“Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology” by Anu Bradford
“The Quantified Worker: Law & Technology in the Modern Workplace” by Ifeoma Ajunwa
“AI Snake Oil: What AI Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference” by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
“The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley” by Marietje Schaake
“Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology” by Chris Miller
“Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy” by Kashmir Hill
“On Privacy and Technology” by Daniel J. Solove
“A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains” by Max Bennett
“The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip” by Stephen Witt
“Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism” by Sarah Wynn-Williams
“The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want” by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
“Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI” by Karen Hao
“The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” by J. Haidt
“The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource” by Chris Hayes
“Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech” by Brian Merchant
“Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World” by Parmy Olson
“If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All” by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
“Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It” by Cory Doctorow
“Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future” by Dan Wang
“The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity” by Tim Wu
“This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web” by Tim Berners-Lee
“Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity” by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
“The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025” by Dwarkesh Patel and Gavin Leech
“The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence” by Sebastian Mallaby
“Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control and How We Can Take It Back” by Olivier Sylvain
“Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI” by Carissa Véliz
“The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” by Cory Doctorow
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The Memory Project, a science fiction novel which explores our future world in 2085 after societies have gone "all in" or "all out" on AI and emerging technology, and what it means for our society and our humanity.
The book references several books already included on the list including: AI 2041, The Battle for Your Brain, The Worlds I See, and other important books on data collection including Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff, and Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State by Byron Tau.
While the books on the list provide great background of where we have been and where we are going with our path to technology, data collection, and adoption, The Memory Project explores where we are headed in the future and what it means for our society and humanity.