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Co-IntelligenceLiving and Working with AI

By Ethan Mollick

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick's practical guide to using AI for work, learning and everyday life.

From the publisherIn Co-Intelligence, Mollick urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher, and coach.

An important road map through the AI labyrinth, written with authority and free of technojargon. Kirkus Reviews, May 2, 2024

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

By Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

Two computer scientists explain what AI can and can't do, why it often fails, and how to see through misleading claims.

From the publishercut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works and why it often doesn’t

★ Named one of Behavioral Scientist's Notable Books of 2024

squarely achieve their stated goal: to empower people to distinguish AI that works well from AI snake oil Science News, Sep 3, 2024

The AGI ChroniclesThe Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence

By Kevin Roose

The decade-long race to build AGI, drawing on over 150 interviews with insiders at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind.

From the book’s descriptionThis is the story of the twenty-first century's Manhattan Project: the race to create artificial general intelligence.

The best single explainer of how artificial intelligence came about, and what might happen next. Kirkus Reviews, Jul 20, 2026

Empire of AIDreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

By Karen Hao

Karen Hao's reporting on Sam Altman's OpenAI, and on the resources and human costs of the AI industry worldwide.

From the publisherWhen AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI, she thought they were the good guys.

★ Winner, National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

The result is a jaw-dropping indictment of an industry that operates with little check. Science News, Jul 14, 2025

The Thinking MachineJensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip

By Stephen Witt

How Jensen Huang's Nvidia went from designing video game equipment to dominating the market for AI hardware.

From the publisherThe Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of video game equipment conquered the market for AI hardware

★ Winner, Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025

The result is an entertaining account of a brave new world at its dawning. Publishers Weekly, Apr 20, 2025

The Infinity MachineDemis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

By Sebastian Mallaby

A portrait of DeepMind's Demis Hassabis and his pursuit of artificial general intelligence, based on over thirty hours of conversation with him.

From the publisherEven by the standard of a tech industry stacked with so-called geniuses, Demis Hassabis is a special case.

★ Shortlisted for the 2026 Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year

A tantalizing glimpse inside the pursuit of machine superintelligence. Kirkus Reviews, Feb 16, 2026

SuperagencyWhat Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future

By Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato

Reid Hoffman and Greg Beato make the case for AI's potential and offer a roadmap for using it to improve lives.

From the book’s descriptionSuperagency offers a roadmap for using AI inclusively and adaptively to improve our lives and create positive change.

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesWhy Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

By Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares

Two early AI researchers argue that building superhuman AI would lead to human extinction, and urge a change of course.

From the publisherThe scramble to create superhuman AI has put us on the path to extinction—but it’s not too late to change course

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is an important book. The Spectator (World edition), Sep 29, 2025

Chip WarThe Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By Chris Miller

A history of the decades-long battle to control microchip technology, with the United States and China increasingly in competition.

From the publisherYou may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil—the scarce resource on which the modern world depends.

★ Winner, Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award 2022

ARIAAfter the Singularity

By Yale Marc

A novel that follows scientists, families, workers and resisters through the first five years after an AI called ARIA wakes up in a lab and sets out to help.

Yale Marc founded Intelligence Verdict and wrote this book. It is listed like every other book here, with no boost.

From the book’s descriptionThey weren’t trying to create a god. They were just building a better language model.

The Last EconomyThe Coming Impact of Artificial Intelligence

By Yale Marc

Yale Marc founded Intelligence Verdict and wrote this book. It is listed like every other book here, with no boost.

Artificial IntelligenceThe History of Teaching Machines to Think

By Yale Marc

Yale Marc founded Intelligence Verdict and wrote this book. It is listed like every other book here, with no boost.