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• Superintelligence

  Paths, Dangers, Strategies

  Bostrom, Nick, 1973-

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  One of the early works that explores what may happen if/when machines become more intelligent than humans. Author Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at Oxford University and was director of the Future of Humanity Institute.

• Empire of AI

  Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

  Hao, Karen

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  Building on hundreds of interviews with AI insiders and those affected by encroaching AI infrastructure around the globe, as well as her own research into the field and her experiences while embedded with OpenAI, journalist Karen Hao offers a deep…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Atlas of AI

  Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

  Crawford, Kate, 1974-

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  Author Kate Crawford, a scholar of AI who co-founded multiple research institutes that examine AI training and ethics, explores the hidden costs of modern AI in areas like the environment, the human labor market, and privacy.

• The Alignment Problem

  Machine Learning and Human Values

  Christian, Brian, 1984-

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  Modern AI models are trained on vast bodies of data, often collected from non-consenting human creators; the decisions they make and actions they take based on this data can be far-reaching and consequential. What risks and ethical considerations…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Coming Wave

  Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

  Suleyman, Mustafa

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  As AI models become increasingly powerful, and increasingly integrated into more vital aspects of human life and society, how will humans maintain control? Author Mustafa Suleyman co-founded the company DeepMind and became CEO of Microsoft AI UK &…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life 3.0

  Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

  Tegmark, Max

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  Join author Max Tegmark, MIT physics professor and co-founder of the Future of Life Institute, in this exploration of how emerging AI technologies may transform the future, impacting human jobs, the environment, war and peace, the justice system,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Age of AI

  and Our Human Future

  Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023

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  Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, Eric Schmidt, technology entrepreneur and philanthropist, and Daniel Huttenlocher, Dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, consider the profound ways AI may transform human society.

• Weapons of Math Destruction

  How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

  O'Neil, Cathy

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  Cathy O'Neil, a Wall Street data scientist and professor with a PhD in Mathematics, explains how increasingly pervasive algorithms not only describe the trajectories of human lives, but may come to determine them.

• Artificial Intelligence

  a Guide for Thinking Humans

  Mitchell, Melanie (Computer scientist)

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  Through real-world examples and storytelling, computer science professor Melanie Mitchell helps the reader separate fact from science fiction in the world of AI.

• The Worlds I See

  Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

  Li, Fei Fei, 1976-

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  This moving memoir follows the life of author Fei-Fei Li, who immigrated to the United States from China and ended up at the forefront of the AI revolution as a computer science professor at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• You Look Like a Thing and I Love You

  How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place

  Shane, Janelle

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  Janelle Shane, author of both this book and the website AI Weirdness, creates her own AI for whimsical ends to discover and convey the many ways modern AI systems can be right, wrong, poignant, and hilarious.

• AI Superpowers

  China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

  Lee, Kai-Fu

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  Both China and the United States are racing to achieve sophisticated AI systems and broad integration of this technology, but at what cost and to what effect? AI expert Kai-Fu Lee gives his thoughts on which industries in both countries may be at…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Human Compatible

  Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

  Russell, Stuart J. (Stuart Jonathan), 1962-

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  Is superhuman AI the answer to humanity's problems, or does it represent an existential pivot point, with humanity's very existence on the line? Stuart Russell is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Association for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Second Machine Age

  Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

  Brynjolfsson, Erik

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  Given all that AI is capable of doing, how can humans remain competitive, relevant, and even essential? Author Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business.

• Superagency

  What Could Possibly Go Right With Our AI Future

  Hoffman, Reid

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  Artificial Intelligence poses risks, certainly, but what about the great potential it has to solve problems, cure diseases, and create equity among users of all backgrounds?

• Robots and the People Who Love Them

  Holding on to Our Humanity in An Age of Social Robots

  Herold, Eve

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  Roombas, robotic pets, and large language models like Claude and ChatGPT are not human, and yet our deeply social nature leads us to find meaning in our relationships with these machines. Author Eve Herold takes us through a variety of joyful,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• AI Needs You

  How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own

  Harding, Verity, 1984-

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  Author Verity Harding, first Global head of Policy at DeepMind, discusses why it's important for all of us to think about the world we are creating through AI, and to play an active role in shaping that world

• Our Next Reality

  How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World

  Graylin, Alvin W.

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  Like the Industrial Age that came before, the "technological age" stands to revolutionize how we live, work, play, and relate to one another. Will this bring us together, fostering equity and abundance, or will it lead to a loss of privacy,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Code Dependent

  Living in the Shadow of AI

  Murgia, Madhumita

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  How has the emergence of AI, in so many areas of life, impacted individuals and society? Author Madhumita Murgia explores this question through interviews with several individuals whose lives appear very different, but who are impacted in strangely…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Artificial Intelligence

  Mueller, John, 1958-

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  If you're looking for a practical grounding in what Generative AI is, how it works, and how you may be able to harness it in your life, this book is a good place to start,