AI & Technology
The century's biggest story, on probation outside the 1,000. Turing to the transformer wars.
54 essential works
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Kate Crawford
2021 · Australia
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman
2023 · United Kingdom
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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
Joy Buolamwini
2023 · United States
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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Fei-Fei Li
2023 · United States
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Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI
Urs Gasser & Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
2024 · Switzerland/Austria
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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan
2021 · Taiwan
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Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Ruha Benjamin
2019 · United States
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The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology
Nita Farahany
2023 · United States
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The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future
Orly Lobel
2022 · United States/Israel
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Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
Madhumita Murgia
2024 · India / United Kingdom
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari
2024 · Israel
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Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us
Gary Marcus
2024 · United States
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Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Anu Bradford
2023 · Finland
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The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace
Ifeoma Ajunwa
2023 · Nigeria
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AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor
2024 · United States
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The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
Marietje Schaake
2024 · Netherlands
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
2022 · United States
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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Tale of AI, a Secretive Startup, and the End of Privacy
Kashmir Hill
2023 · United States
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On Privacy and Technology
Daniel J. Solove
2025 · United States
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A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains
Max Bennett
2023 · United States
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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Stephen Witt
2025 · United States
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams
2025 · New Zealand
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The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna
2025 · United States
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao
2025 · United States
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Jonathan Haidt
2024 · United States
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The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource
Chris Hayes
2025 · United States
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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Brian Merchant
2023 · United States
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
Parmy Olson
2024 · United Kingdom
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares
2025 · United States
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow
2025 · Canada
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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Dan Wang
2025 · Canada
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The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
Tim Wu
2025 · United States
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This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
2025 · United Kingdom
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson
2023 · Turkey/United Kingdom
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The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025
Dwarkesh Patel & Gavin Leech
2025 · United States
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The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence
Sebastian Mallaby
2025 · United Kingdom
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Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control and How We Can Take It Back
Olivier Sylvain
2025 · United States
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Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI
Carissa Véliz
2025 · Mexico
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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
Cory Doctorow
2025 · Canada/United Kingdom
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
2011 · United States
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
Andrew Hodges
1983 · United Kingdom
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A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman
2017 · United States
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The Soul of a New Machine
Tracy Kidder
1981 · United States
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy
1984 · United States
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
1985 · United States
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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
Tim Wu
2010 · United States
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O'Neil
2016 · United States
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
Brian Christian
2020 · United States
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
2014 · Sweden
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson
2014 · United States
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
2019 · United States
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr
2010 · United States
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
George Dyson
2012 · United States
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Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Max Tegmark
2017 · Sweden
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