21 best-selling nonfiction books like A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett

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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…

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1. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

By: Nick Bostrom

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intellig… read more

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  • technology
  • artificial intelligence
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  • science
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2. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By: None

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Audio CD

How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of be… read more

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3. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

By: Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more

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  • biology
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  • science
"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"

-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

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4. 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
  • history
  • biology
  • artificial intelligence
  • psychology
  • neuroscience
  • nonfiction
  • how to
  • education
  • technology
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5. 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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  • science
"Curiosity bred competence."

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

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6. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

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  • neuroscience
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  • psychology
  • science
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7. AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

By: Ronald M. Razmi

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the healthcare industry AI … read more

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"It’s true that AI can mimic the human brain, but it can also outperform us mere humans by discovering complex patterns that no human being could ever process and identify."

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"In short, physicians are getting more and more data, which requires more sophisticated interpretation and which takes more time. AI is the solution, enhancing every stage of patient care from researc…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"Pilots used to fly planes manually, but now they operate a dashboard with the help of computers. This has made flying safer and improved the industry. Healthcare can benefit from the same type of app…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

"It’s estimated that AI could free up to 25% of clinician time across different specialties. This increased amount of time could mean less hurried encounters and more humane interactions, including mo…"

-Ronald M. Razmi, AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors

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8. 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
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  • artificial intelligence
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9. 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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  • nonfiction
  • education
  • science
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10. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

By: Judea Pearl

3.95

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has re… read more

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"Scientists should seek shielded mediators whenever they face incurable confounders."

-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

"skepticism has its place. Statisticians are paid to be skeptics; they are the conscience of science."

-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

"Fighting for the acceptance of Bayesian networks in AI was a picnic compared with the fight I had to wage for causal diagrams [in the stormy waters of statistics]."

-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

"[T]he cultural shocks that emanate from new scientific findings are eventually settled by cultural realignments that accommodate those findings—not by concealment. A prerequisite for this realignment…"

-Judea Pearl, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

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11. 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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  • science
  • history
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  • technology
Cover of The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li

12. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • artificial intelligence
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13. 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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14. 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

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15. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
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16. Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World

By: Mo Gawdat

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Technology is putting our humanity at risk to an unprecedented degree. This book is not for enginee… read more

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  • education
  • science
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17. The Experience Machine

By: Andy Clark

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more

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Cover of Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan

18. 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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  • biology
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Cover of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini

19. 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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Cover of Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World by Nick Bostrom

20. 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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Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

21. 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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19 best-selling science books like A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett

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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

None

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

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

Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

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16 Best audiobook books like Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

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