7 must-read artificial intelligence books like The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey

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The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

By: Carl Benedikt Frey

4.11

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political p…

If you liked the artificial intelligence plot in The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber

1. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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2. Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis

3.75

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselv… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson

3. The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

By: Andrew McAfee , Erik Brynjolfsson

3.60

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and I… read more

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  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • science

4. Travel as a Political Act

By: Rick Steves

4.22

Format: None pages,

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5. Scale: The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia

By: Geoffrey West

3.97

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the fi… read more

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Cover of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris   Miller

6. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple

7. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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8. 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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  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • science
"Curiosity bred competence."

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

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9. 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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  • science
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

10. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • business
Cover of What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz

11. What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

By: Ben Horowitz

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Ben Horowitz, a leading venture capitalist, modern management expert, and New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"Without trust, communication breaks. Here’s why: In any human interaction the required amount of community is inversely proportional to the level of trust."

-Ben Horowitz, What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

12. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
  • technology
Cover of Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle

13. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

By: James Bridle

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more

Similar categories in James Bridle's Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence book and Carl Benedikt Frey's The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

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14. Work: A History of How we spend our Time

By: James Suzman

3.85

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James … read more

Similar categories in James Suzman's Work: A History of How we spend our Time book and Carl Benedikt Frey's The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • science
"The equation of taxation and theft is as old as extortion"

-James Suzman, Work: A History of How we spend our Time

Cover of Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream by David Leonhardt

15. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By: David Leonhardt

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
Cover of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry  Farrell

16. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

By: Henry Farrell

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A deeply researched investigation that reveals how the United States is like a spider at the heart … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey

17. The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

By: Carl Benedikt Frey

4.11

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political p… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • technology
Cover of AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own by Verity Harding

18. AI Needs You: How We Can Change AI's Future and Save Our Own

By: Verity Harding

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A humanist manifesto for the age of AI Artificial intelligence may be the most transformative te… read more

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  • politics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

19. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

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  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science
Cover of MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact by Adaira Landry

20. MicroSkills: Small Actions, Big Impact

By: Adaira Landry

4.28

Format: None pages, ebook

The promise of this book is simple: if you buy this book on Friday, you will be better at your job … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World by George Serafeim

21. Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World

By: George Serafeim

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Are purpose and profit in conflict, or can both be achieved simultaneously with the right mindset a… read more

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  • business

10 Best history books like The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey

Transform Your Habits

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

David Graeber

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Common Sense

Thomas Paine , George Vafiadis

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

4.20

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Transform Your Habits

Nuclear War: A Scenario

Annie Jacobsen

4.47

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

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

Salman Khan

3.74

Transform Your Habits

What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

Bill Maher

4.27

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