Essential Reading
BOOKS & PAPERS
Essential reading...
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter by the Future of Life Institute
The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything by James Barrat
Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat
Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation by Émile P. Torres
Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart J. Russell
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow
Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity by Joe Allen
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
What We Owe the Future by William MacAskill
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
Technology vs. Humanity by Gerd Leonhard
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility by Waqas Ahmed
The Theory of the Avant-Garde by Renato Poggioli
The Theory of the Avant-Garde by Peter Bürger
The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century by Hal Foster
The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality by Michael Heim
Virtual Realism by Michael Heim
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord
Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life by Allan Kaprow
Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World by Kirk J. Schneider
Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive in an Era of Mass Extinction by Mark M. Siebel
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson
AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz
Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It by Mark Coeckelbergh
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom by Evgeny Morozov
How That Robot Made Me Feel by Ericka Johnson (editor)
Waiting for Robots: The Hired Hands of Automation by Antonio A. Casilli
The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley by Jacob Silverman
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor
The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention by David F. Noble
The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future by Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar
Religion and AI: An Introduction by Beth Singler
The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li
Simulation and Simulacra by Jean Baudrillard
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian
Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media by Sarah T Roberts
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
Scary Smart The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World by Mo Gawdat
The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio
Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence by Sara Imari Walker
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
Data Trash: The Theory of Virtual Class by Arthur Kroker and Michael A. Weinstein
The Will to Technology and the Culture of Nihilism by Arthur Kroker
This is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth
Our Own Devices: The Past and Future of Body Technology by Edward Tenner
The Ethical Governance of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Healthcare by Tina Nguyen
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism by Evgeny Morozov
A Narrow Path: How to Secure our Future by Andrea Miotti, Tolga Bilge, Dave Kasten, James Newport
Routledge Handbook of the Influence Industry by Emma L. Briant (editor)
Power and Technology: A Theory of Social, Technical and Natural Power by Jan van Dijk
Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI by Callum Cant, James Muldoon, Mark Graham
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gabby Wood
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey and Urs Gasser
The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality by Rachel Adams
An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks by Center for Ai Safety
Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age by Noreen Herzfeld
Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond by David J. Gunkel
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World by Bruce Schneier
The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor
Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Joseph E. Aoun
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
Mediating Plureality: Technology, Perception, and Ethics in a Divided Democracy by Morten Bay
Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman
Non-Computable You What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will by Robert Marks
Language and the Rise of the Algorithm by Jeffrey M. Binder
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences by Edward Tenner
The Culture of Technology by Arnold Pacey
Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier by Katie Hafner & John Markoff
A Hacker’s Mind How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend Them Back by Bruce Schneier
Situationist International Anthology by Ken Knabb (editor)
The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought by Mortimer J. Adler
A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas by Mortimer J. Adler
Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century by Mark Dery
Paracosm: Misadventures in Unreality by Andrew Spano
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan
In the Land of the Unreal by Lisa Messeri
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
Futureselves: Free Will, the Self, and the Science of Living Well by Paul Englert
The Psychology of Attitude Change and Social Influence by Philip Zimbardo
The Contemporary Posthuman by Leonardo Caffo
When Things Start to Think by Neil Gershenfeld
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch by Laura DeNardis
Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do by Jeremy Bailenson
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley by Marietje Schaake
Digital Revolution: New Social Challenges by Ladislau Dowbor
The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything by Eric Heinze
A New Theory of Privacy by James J. Ward
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
Cyborg by Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
The Future of Higher Education in an Age of Artificial Intelligence by Stephen Murgatroyd
A Gift of Fire: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing by Sara Baase
Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left by Eric Heinze
Nanolaw Ethics: A Janus Approach with Contemporary Human Rights by Andrei Twibell
The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age by Noreen Herzfeld
The Digital Cult: A New Theocracy Between Media and Memory by Guido Nicolosi
Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us by Nicholas Carr
In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Human Spirit by Noreen Herzfel
Dancing in the Distraction Factory: Music Television and Popular Culture by Andrew Goodman
Interception: State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks by Bernard Keenan
Artificial Intelligence and Universal Values by Jay Friedenberg
Mechanic and the Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism by Jathan Sadowski
Ethics in the Age of AI: Navigating Politics and Security by Leo S.F. Lin (editor)
How to Speak Machine: A Gentle Introduction to Artificial Intelligence by John Maeda
On Transhumanism by Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Personal Freedom: On Finding Your Way to the Real World by Arthur J. Deikman
Understanding the New Digital Masses: Mass Subjectivity Under Siege by Raymond L. M. Lee
Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age by Mike Holly
The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder
Artificial Intelligence: Crime, War, and Justice by Nathalie Rébé
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Dr. Joy Buolamwini
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
Ethics in Artificial Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary Approach by Steven S. Gouveia (editor)
Future Crimes: Inside the Digital Underground and the Battle for Our Connected World by Marc Goodman
Reclaiming the Future for Humanity: Perspectives on Progress by Margaret Majumdar
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires by Tim Wu
We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age by Wendy H. Wong
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon by Kim Zetter
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard
Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World by Bruce Schneier
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence by John Zerilli
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence by Matteo Pasquinelli
Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know by Ruth Aylett and Patricia A. Vargas
A Blueprint for the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Technologies by Frank Wolf
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked by Adam Alter
The Temporary Autonomous Zone: Ontological Anarchy and Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey
Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill
Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work by John Danaher
Cybernetics: Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray
Fake News: The Transformation of Propaganda in the Information Society by George Pleios
Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier
Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman
Consuming Life by Zygmunt Bauman
Culture in a Liquid Modern World by Zygmunt Bauman
Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman
Liquid Surveillance: A Conversation by Zygmunt Bauman with David Lyon
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
You and Your Profile: Identity After Authenticity by Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D'Ambrosio
Artificial Bodies: How Machines Replace People by Remelt Ellen
Postscript on the Societies of Control by Gilles Deleuze
The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger
The Theory of Positive Disintegration (TPD) by Kazimierz Dąbrowski
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society by Herbert Marcuse
Radical Man: The Process of Psycho-Social Development by Charles Hampden-Turner
Brainwashing: The Science of Thought Control by Kathleen Taylor
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism by Robert Jay Lifton
Neuroamancer by WIlliam Gibson
Betrayal of the Self by Arno Gruen
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Human Crisis by Albert Camus
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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