Geopolitics, Power, and Global Impact
The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar, which examines how AI will create immense prosperity but also pose existential threats to the nation-state and the foundation of global order.
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Paul Scharre, detailing the great power rivalry and the struggle to control AI.
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford, which uncovers the hidden costs of AI involving labor, privacy, equality, and natural resources.
The Age of AI and Genesis by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and others, which explore how AI is transforming human society and empowering individuals while raising urgent questions about our future.
Economics, Business Strategy, and Management
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence and Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb. These books discuss how AI is shifting the cognitive load of prediction from humans to machines.
AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together by Nick Polson and James Scott, which helps listeners use intelligent machines to make better life and business decisions.
Several Harvard Business Review (HBR) publications, including HBR Guide to AI Basics for Managers, Generative AI, and HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, which are designed to help professionals run small experiments, navigate ethical issues, and implement AI strategies.
The Artificial Intelligence Contagion by David Barnhizer, which looks at the imminent transformation of work and wealth, questioning if democracy can withstand AI's societal impact.
How to Move Up When the Only Way is Down by Judah Taub, offering insights on overcoming local maximums in decision-making based on his experience guiding early-stage AI startups.
Philosophy, Ethics, and the Future of Humanity
The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian, a jaw-dropping exploration into what goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement attempting to fix them.
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat, which warns of the risks AI poses to humanity and urges individuals to take part in fixing it.
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI, edited by John Brockman, gathering insights from top scientific minds on the most crucial issues AI presents.
In Our Own Image: Savior or Destroyer? by George Zarkadakis, exploring humankind's long-standing love-hate relationship with artificial intelligence.
Our Next Reality by Alvin Wang Graylin and Louis Rosenberg, which provides a data-driven debate on whether spatial computing and AI will lead to a technological utopia or an AI-powered dystopia.
Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick, presenting the definitive playbook for living, learning, and working in the new age of AI.
Technology and Science
The Deep Learning Revolution by Terrence J. Sejnowski, explaining how deep learning is transforming sectors from language translation to driverless cars.
Why Machines Learn by Anil Ananthaswamy, offering a rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that drive machine learning.
The Fourth Transformation by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, exploring the impending intersection of AI and augmented reality.
Sci-Fi and Fiction Featuring AI
Infinity Born by Douglas E. Richards, a thriller revolving around a DARPA program to create artificial superintelligence that gets sabotaged.
Interview with the Robot by Lee Bacon, a story about an ordinary-looking 12-year-old girl who is actually a highly advanced robot on the run from a secretive organization.