Investigative 2025

Empire of AI

Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Karen Hao

Award-winning investigation into OpenAI's rise — exposing the human, environmental, and ethical costs behind building frontier AI models.

Critical 2025

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares

The scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course, as two of the field’s earliest researchers explain in this clarion call for humanity.

Critical 2024

AI Snake Oil

What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference

Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor

A rigorous debunking of AI hype — showing what AI actually does well and where it's being oversold, with tools to evaluate any AI claim.

Practical 2024

Co-Intelligence

Living and Working with AI

Ethan Mollick

A pragmatic guide to thriving alongside AI — arguing we're in an experimental phase and showing how individuals can harness AI to augment their own work.

Policy 2024

Genesis

Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Craig Mundie

As AI grows more powerful, it promises to solve major global problems and expand human potential, but also brings unprecedented challenges that could reshape human autonomy, beliefs, and evolution.

Technical 2024

Why Machines Learn

The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI

Anil Ananthaswamy

A rare book that traces the actual mathematics — linear algebra, calculus, probability — that gave rise to modern neural networks, without dumbing it down.

Investigative 2023

Supremacy

AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

Parmy Olson

Bloomberg journalist Parmy Olson goes inside the fierce rivalry between OpenAI and Google DeepMind — and what it means for civilization.

Policy 2023

The Coming Wave

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

Mustafa Suleyman

DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman argues AI and synthetic biology are an unstoppable wave — and lays out what must be done to contain it.

Memoir 2023

The Worlds I See

Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

Dr. Fei-Fei Li

The pioneer behind ImageNet tells her story — from Chinese immigrant to Stanford professor — and gives a firsthand account of the deep learning revolution.

Critical 2021

Atlas of AI

Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

Kate Crawford

A landmark critical work mapping the hidden infrastructures of AI — the mines, data centres, labor, and surveillance systems that power the industry.

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