I’m still working on my AI book and part of that process is reading every other non-fiction, non-technical AI book (both to see what they say and see what else is out there).
Do you have any additions to the list below? Preferably from the past 5 years and I’m generally not seeking textbooks or books that have academics as the main audience.
I have short reviews of most of the first 40 but they are scattered so perhaps I’ll include them in a future post.
Book Title
Author
Year Published
The Singularity is Near
Ray Kurzweil
2005
Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
PW Singer
2009
Global Catastrophic Risks
Ed: Bostrom and Cirkovic
2011
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
2014
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Pedro Domingos
2015
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
2017
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee
2018
Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it
Martin Ford
2018
Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes
Richard Clarke and RP Eddy
2018
The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence
Amir Husain
2018
Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence
Jacob Turner
2018
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell
2019
The AI Does Not Hate You: The Rationalists and Their Quest to Save the World
Tom Chivers
2019
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust
Gary Marcus, Ernest Davis
2019
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
Carl Benedikt Frey
2019
Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind
Susan Schneider
2019
Who’s Afraid of AI?: Fear and Promise in the Age of Thinking Machines
Thomas Ramge
2019
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Brian Christian
2020
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
Toby Ord
2020
A Human Algorithm: How Artificial Intelligence Is Redefining Who We Are
Flynn Coleman
2020
T-Minus AI: Humanity’s Countdown to Artificial Intelligence and the New Pursuit of Global Power
Michael Kanaan
2020
The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI
(Eds) M Dubber, F Pasquale, S Das
2020
Deepfakes: The Coming Infocalypse
Nina Schick
2020
AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking about Intelligent Machines
Cave et al
2020
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Kai-Fu Lee, Chen Qiufan
2021
Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity
Steven Shwartz
2021
A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age
Andrew Stewart
2021
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Kate Crawford
2021
The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
D. P. Huttenlocher, Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger
2021
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Ananyo Bhattacharya
2022
The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance
Bullock et al (eds)
2022
Dignity in a Digital Age: Making tech work for all of us
Ro Khanna
2022
The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI
Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie
2022
What We Owe The Future
William MacAskill
2022
Ethical Machines
Reid Blackman
2022
Relationships 5.0: How AI, VR, and Robots Will Reshape Our Emotional Lives
Elyakim Kislev
2022
The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
Matthew Ball
2022
Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
2022
The Equality Machine
Orly Lobel
2022
Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
2022
Upcoming
Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Hardcover
Paul Scharre
Feb. 28, 2023
Possibilities
Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology: Caught in the Web
Edward H. Spence
2021
Evolutionary Digital Environment Net: A Unified Compromise for the AI Control Problem and Climate Crisis
TR Simmons
2021
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
2019
Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security
Edited by Roman V. Yampolskiy (Multiple authors included like Kurzweil, Max Tegmark, Nick Bostrom)
2018
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World (didn’t grab me)
Seeking input on a list of AI books for broader audience
I’m still working on my AI book and part of that process is reading every other non-fiction, non-technical AI book (both to see what they say and see what else is out there).
Do you have any additions to the list below? Preferably from the past 5 years and I’m generally not seeking textbooks or books that have academics as the main audience.
I have short reviews of most of the first 40 but they are scattered so perhaps I’ll include them in a future post.