21 Top nonfiction books like The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

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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…

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1. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
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2. Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

By: Tom Chivers

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A captivating and user-friendly tour of Bayes’s theorem and its global impact on modern life from t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen

3. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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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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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • technology
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5. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

By: Salman Khan

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • technology
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6. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You

By: Bill Maher

4.27

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan

8. Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

By: Venki Ramakrishnan

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson A groundbreaking exploration of the science of why and how we a… read more

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  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World

By: Nick Bostrom

3.90

Format: 536 pages, Hardcover

A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it? Has he given this any t… read more

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  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

10. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

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  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

11. 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

Similar categories in Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI book and Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

  • audiobook
  • science
  • futurism
  • singularity
  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • computer science
  • sociology
  • technology
Cover of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century by Dmitri Alperovitch

12. World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century

By: Dmitri Alperovitch

4.34

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A leading national security expert, who publicly predicted Vladimir Putin's intention to launch a f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World by Jamie Metzl

13. Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World

By: Jamie Metzl

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A bold, inspiring, and multi-disciplinary exploration of cutting-edge human knowledge and capabilit… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

14. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence by Sara Imari Walker

15. Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence

By: Sara Imari Walker

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law by Neil Gorsuch

16. Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law

By: Neil Gorsuch

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

America has always been a nation of laws. But today our laws have grown so vast and reach so deeply… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver

17. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

18. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
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  • sociology
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Cover of Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future by Jeremy Kahn

19. Mastering AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future

By: Jeremy Kahn

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Fortune magazine journalist draws on his expertise and extensive contacts among the companies and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • artificial intelligence
  • technology
Cover of Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World by Parmy Olson

20. Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World

By: Parmy Olson

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In November of 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was an AI chatbot calle… read more

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  • audiobook
  • science
  • artificial intelligence
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

21. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook

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David Brooks

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Charles Duhigg

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Cal Newport

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