Whenever I see a list of books about AI, I’m always surprised to see that Shannon Vallor’s The AI Mirror is never on any of them. It would be a very fitting 40th title
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.
Hi Luiza, your question about the 40th book caught my attention because I’ve just completed “Talking to AI, Listening to Myself: A Personal Experiment in Reflection, Conversation and Human Judgement”. It’s a first-person case study of using conversational AI for extended self-reflection, drawing on thousands of pages of pre-AI introspection, five earlier illustrated books and hundreds of subsequent conversations with ChatGPT. It explores both where AI helped and where its agreeableness and apparent psychological authority became problematic. It emphatically doesn’t argue that AI is therapy. I’d be very happy to send you a PDF if it sounds relevant to your collection. Best regards, Michael
The current 39 books are all important. At the same time, many/most are cautionary. I would recommend two books that focus on opportunity. "The Last Book Written by a Human" by Jeff Burningham is subtitled, "Becoming Wise in the Age of AI." My own book, "Leading into the Age of Wisdom: Reimagining the Future of Work" looks at how we can leverage wisdom at all levels of the organization to make work more human and more humane.
Is there a reason that you left “Dark Aeon” by Joe Allen off your list?
Curious why The Alignment Problem didn't make the list.
Whenever I see a list of books about AI, I’m always surprised to see that Shannon Vallor’s The AI Mirror is never on any of them. It would be a very fitting 40th title
Gödel, Escher, Bach.
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.
Oh! And I would substitute “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” with Cecilia Rikap’s “Rulers”, which is brilliant (and based on reality!)
The Mechanic and the Luddite,
A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism.
by Jathan Sadowski
Matteo Pasquinelli - The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
https://www.versobooks.com/products/735-the-eye-of-the-master?srsltid=AfmBOoqqE8YGio73LVVN6JuFoSQ8qPeRXOIV4Ms53PGK_zzGCwDrVRoN
How about Robert Wright's "The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning?" My long essay/review of it is here. https://medium.com/@jylterps/ai-and-the-coming-kosmic-reckoning-robert-wrights-god-test-640d6bbeceba
Is there any specific order you’d recommend reading these in?
Cognitive Carpentry by John L Pollock PhD , MIT Press & earlier book , How to Build a Person .
Hi Luiza, your question about the 40th book caught my attention because I’ve just completed “Talking to AI, Listening to Myself: A Personal Experiment in Reflection, Conversation and Human Judgement”. It’s a first-person case study of using conversational AI for extended self-reflection, drawing on thousands of pages of pre-AI introspection, five earlier illustrated books and hundreds of subsequent conversations with ChatGPT. It explores both where AI helped and where its agreeableness and apparent psychological authority became problematic. It emphatically doesn’t argue that AI is therapy. I’d be very happy to send you a PDF if it sounds relevant to your collection. Best regards, Michael
The current 39 books are all important. At the same time, many/most are cautionary. I would recommend two books that focus on opportunity. "The Last Book Written by a Human" by Jeff Burningham is subtitled, "Becoming Wise in the Age of AI." My own book, "Leading into the Age of Wisdom: Reimagining the Future of Work" looks at how we can leverage wisdom at all levels of the organization to make work more human and more humane.
MEMORYBOT: AI and the end of human memory
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=memorybot-ai-and-the-end-of-human-memory--9781509573738