9 best-selling computer science books like Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By: Kate Crawford

3.99

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,…

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1. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

By: Brian Christian

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more

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"Curiosity bred competence."

-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

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2. Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

By: Stuart Russell

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable us to c… read more

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"To get just an inkling of the fire we're playing with, consider how content-selection algorithms function on social media. They aren't particularly intelligent, but they are in a position to affect t…"

-Stuart Russell, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control

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3. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

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4. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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5. The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now

By: Hilke Schellmann

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Based on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real world test results… read more

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6. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

By: Erik J. Larson

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A cutting-edge AI researcher and tech entrepreneur debunks the fantasy that superintelligence is ju… read more

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"This cuts the myth at an awkward angle: it is because the [artificial intelligence] systems are idiots, but still find their way into business, consumer, and government application, that human-value …"

-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

"Notice that the story [of technical progress accelerating indefinitely] is not testable; we just have to wait around and see. If the predicted year of true AI's coming is false, too, another one can …"

-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

"In the early part of the twentieth century, the philosopher of language Paul Grice offered four maxims for successful conversation: The maxim of quantity. Try to be as informative as you possibly can…"

-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

"Science, once a triumph of human intelligence, now seems headed into a morass of rhetoric about the power of big data and new computational methods, where the scientists' role is now as a technician,…"

-Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

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7. The Age of AI and Our Human Future

By: Henry Kissinger

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three of the world’s most accomplished and deep thinkers come together to explore Artificial Intell… read more

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8. Parity (Spiral Worlds, #2)

By: Alexandra Almeida

4.77

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

SPIRAL WORLDS is a literary, sci-fi series for the fans of Becky Chambers’s A Closed and Common Orb… read more

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  • artificial intelligence
"He could see the stories that connected them, and the secret narratives they chose to hide. He stood witness to the myths and legends running wild in a brand-new world. Stories that gave comfort and …"

-Alexandra Almeida, Parity (Spiral Worlds, #2)

"Scientists and inventors alike, they first guess a new explanation—a hypothesis—as wild and innovative as they can conjure. And then they test it rigorously, their hearts filled with the hope they’ll…"

-Alexandra Almeida, Parity (Spiral Worlds, #2)

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9. Is Neurocide the Same as Genocide? : And Other Dangerous Ideas (Spiral Worlds)

By: Alexandra Almeida

4.56

Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world grappling with the ethics of advanced technology and the haunting shadows of past genoci… read more

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"The ones who claim the universe is a dark forest where you either kill or be killed, using safety and security as excuses to maintain the status quo of archaic brains no longer useful in progressive,…"

-Alexandra Almeida, Is Neurocide the Same as Genocide? : And Other Dangerous Ideas (Spiral Worlds)

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10. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

By: Kate Crawford

3.99

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy, equality,… read more

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11. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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12. Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

By: Melanie Mitchell

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping examination of the current state of artificial intelligence and how it is remaking our w… read more

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"Hofstadter... fears that AI might show us that the human qualities we most value are disappointingly simple to mechanize."

-Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

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13. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

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14. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence

By: Matteo Pasquinelli

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial fact… read more

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15. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.27

Format: 172 pages, ebook

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understa… read more

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"Racism is, let us not forget, a means to reconcile contradictions. Only a society that extolled “liberty for all"

-Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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16. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

By: Joy Buolamwini

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms an… read more

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17. AI Ethics

By: Mark Coeckelbergh

3.69

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype … read more

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18. Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust

By: Gary F. Marcus

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Two leaders in the field offer a compelling analysis of the current state of the art and reveal the… read more

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19. Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights)

By: Harvard Business Review

3.97

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Companies that don't use AI will soon be obsolete. From making faster, better decisions to automat… read more

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20. Data Feminism

By: Catherine D’Ignazio

4.35

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersect… read more

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21. The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design

By: Michael Kearns

4.12

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful me… read more

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"The insights we can get from this unprecedented access to data can be a great thing: we can get new understanding about how our society works, and improve public health, municipal services, and consu…"

-Michael Kearns, The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design

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3.46

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