You don’t have to be an engineer to understand how AI works and affects our world. Read these five books and you’ll know more than 90% of people.

1. The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits) by Maximilian Kasy

Read this short and to the point book and you’ll understand how AI works and how its builders shape the direction of their technology.

2. Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford

Learn about the long supply chain of extraction and logistics to run the LLM chatbot you interact with.

3. AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference

AI is normal technology. Understand what it can’t predict and what claims are fiction.

4. Reader Bot: What Happens when AI Reads and Why It Matters by Naomi S. Baron

What do we give up when we outsource our reading and writing to AI? This book will help you make informed and intentional choices for AI use.

5. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao

Who are these people (Altman, Amodei, Musk, and more) from the early days of OpenAI, what do they believe, and how do those beliefs shape the technology they build. 

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