9 Top politics books like A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind

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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…

"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

If you liked the politics plot in A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly

1. The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

By: Kevin Kelly

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading technology thinkers and writers, a guide through the twelve technological i… read more

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Cover of The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose

2. The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness

By: Todd Rose

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this ground-breaking book perfect for readers of The Power of Habitand Quiet, Harvard scientist … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
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3. Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest & Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

By: Henry Hazlitt

3.69

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A million copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lessonis a classic economic primer. But it … read more

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  • politics
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4. 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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  • artificial intelligence
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5. 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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  • technology
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6. What Technology Wants

By: Kevin Kelly

4.00

Format: 112 pages,

"Verbalizing visceral feelings about technology, whether attraction or repulsion, Kelly explores th… read more

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7. The Worldly Philosophers

By: Robert L. Heilbroner

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Worldly Philosophersnot only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better… read more

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8. Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

By: Garry Kasparov , None

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Audio CD

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in… read more

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9. 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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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

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

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10. 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

Cover of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoğlu

11. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

By: Daron Acemoğlu

3.90

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more

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  • science
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  • artificial intelligence
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12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • society
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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

Cover of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman

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

14. 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

Cover of Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) by Salman Khan

15. 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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Cover of Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal

16. Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

By: Ajay Agrawal

3.88

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

"What does AI mean for your business? Read this book to find out." -- Hal Varian, Chief Economist, … read more

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"During the shopping process, Amazon’s AI offers suggestions of items that it predicts you will want to buy. The AI does a reasonable job. However, it is far from perfect. In our case, the AI accurate…"

-Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

Cover of Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz

17. 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

Cover of AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee

18. 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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"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

Cover of The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives by Peter H. Diamandis

19. The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

By: Peter H. Diamandis

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for te… read more

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Cover of Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

20. 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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Cover of Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading by Chris J. Anderson

21. Infectious Generosity: The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading

By: Chris J. Anderson

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of huma… read more

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22. 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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Cover of AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee

23. 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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24. 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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Cover of The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention by Simon Baron-Cohen

25. The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention

By: Simon Baron-Cohen

3.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Pattern Seekers, Cambridge University psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case that autis… read more

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Cover of Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

26. 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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27. Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

By: Rebecca Henderson

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A renowned Harvard professor debunks prevailing orthodoxy with a new intellectual foundation and a … read more

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Cover of Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation by Kevin Roose

28. Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation

By: Kevin Roose

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

"While we need to rewrite the rules of the twenty-first-century economy, Kevin's book is a great lo… read more

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Cover of Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review (HBR Insights) by Harvard Business Review

29. 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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Cover of A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species by Rob Dunn

30. A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species

By: Rob Dunn

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand … read more

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"We were offered a deal by nature: if we gave up thousands of species of birds, plants, mammals, butterflies, and bees, in exchange we could have a handful of new kinds of mosquitoes and rats. It is a…"

-Rob Dunn, A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species

"The diversity-stability law, states that ecosystems that include more species are more stable through time... The law of dependence states that all species depend on other species. And we, as humans,…"

-Rob Dunn, A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species

"It is surprising that we as a species have been as successful as we have despite our ignorance of the biological world and our biased perspective on its dimensions. Einstein said that "the eternal my…"

-Rob Dunn, A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species

"In my experience, people who study climate change are planning for this last scenario in their own daily lives. At work, they write about the RCP2.6 path and how to get on it. At home, in their free …"

-Rob Dunn, A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species

Cover of All-in On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence by Thomas H. Davenport

31. All-in On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence

By: Thomas H. Davenport

3.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating look at the trailblazing companies using artificial intelligence to create new compet… read more

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