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…
Want to Read $ 16.00"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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1. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.97
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling--a pervasive new force in socie… read more
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2. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era
By: James Barrat
3.77
Format: 342 pages,
In as little as a decade, artificial intelligence could match, then surpass human intelligence. Cor… read more
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3. Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience
By: None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Every designer has had to justify designs to non-designers, yet most lack the ability to explain th… read more
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4. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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5. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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6. A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
By: Daniel Susskind
3.84
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of ho… read more
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- technology
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"the future , they say ; holds both obsolescence and ever-greater relevance ; technology is a threat and an opportunity ; a rival and a partner , a foe and a friend"-Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
7. 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
8. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
9. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
By: Cade Metz
4.27
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more
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"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
10. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
By: Kai-Fu Lee
4.10
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee—one of the world’s most respected experts on AI and China—reveals that China has sud… read more
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- politics
- artificial intelligence
- nonfiction
- technology
"When I launched my AI career in 1983, I did so by waxing philosophic in my application to the Ph.D. program at Carnegie Mellon. I described AI as “the quantification of the human thinking process, th…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
11. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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12. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too
By: Ijeoma Oluo
4.46
Format: 256 pages, ebook
From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more
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13. 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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- technology
14. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
15. AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
By: Kai-Fu Lee
3.86
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a le… read more
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"Many people think smartphones and apps already know too much about us, but XR will take things to a whole new level."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"Imagine, a $1,000 political assassin! And this is not a far-fetched danger for the future, but a clear and present danger."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"autonomous weapons are already a clear and present danger, and will become more intelligent, nimble, lethal, and accessible at an unprecedented speed."-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
"More data leads to better AI (artificial intelligence), more automation leads to greater efficiency, more usage leads to reduced cost, and more free time leads to greater productivity. All of these w…"-Kai-Fu Lee, AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
16. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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17. Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus
By: Jennifer S. Hirsch
4.50
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. Resear… read more
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18. More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech
By: Meredith Broussard
4.14
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
When technology reinforces inequality, it’s not just a glitch—it’s a signal that we need to redesig… read more
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19. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
By: Virginia Eubanks
4.01
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and hum… read more
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20. Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection
By: Mimi Zhu
4.12
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
“Radical and revolutionary.” —Jonny Sun, New York Times bestselling author of Goodbye, Again A col… read more
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"Anger, like numbness, is another sacred protector of our survival. It is a loving act to protect yourself, a loving at to resist harm, and a loving act to allow yourself the sacred breath of anger."-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection
"I have tried to return to an "untainted" version of myself, one that was oblivious to the visceral natures of pain and loss. I obsess over an imagined place of "purity", where the ghosts of my past d…"-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection
"The excuses became an armor that pushed away he pain, but painful feelings do not relent even when faced with brute force. They linger in the ether and visit you, whether you are ready or not to conf…"-Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection
21. 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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- social justice
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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
22. 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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23. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
By: Safiya Umoja Noble
3.89
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Run a Google search for "black girls" - what will you find? "Big Booty" and other sexually explicit… read more
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"This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy..."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"If Google isn’t responsible for its algorithm, then who is?"-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"Google creates advertising algorithms, not information algorithms."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
"Where men shape technology, they shape it to the exclusion of women, especially Black women."-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
24. Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI
By: John Brockman
3.77
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Science world luminary John Brockman assembles twenty-five of the most important scientific minds, … read more
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25. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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26. 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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27. Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data
By: Carissa Véliz
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
As the data economy grows in power, Carissa Véliz exposes how our privacy is eroded by big tech and… read more
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28. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
By: Simone Browne
4.46
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surve… read more
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29. Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
By: Sara Wachter-Boettcher
4.07
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Buying groceries, tracking our health, finding a date: whatever we want to do, odds are that we can… read more
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30. Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it
By: Martin Ford
4.09
Format: 554 pages, Kindle Edition
Financial Times Best Books of the Year 2018 TechRepublic Top Books Every Techie Should Read Book … read more
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31. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
By: Sasha Costanza-Chock
4.19
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequal… read more
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