Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie's Ladder of Causation, causal diagrams, and do-calculus — the framework for reasoning past correlation to real cause and effect, and why AI needs it too.
Harari's sequel to Sapiens: having tamed famine, plague, and war, humanity's next agenda is immortality, bliss, and divinity — as algorithms out-predict us.
James Barrat's Our Final Invention argues a smarter-than-human AI doesn't need malice to end humanity — it just needs to not need us. Our full breakdown.
Martin Ford argues AI is automating cognitive work, not just manual labor — threatening broader, faster job disruption than past waves, and making universal basic income a serious policy conversation.
Shoshana Zuboff's landmark book explains how Google and Facebook built a new economic logic around extracting and predicting human behavior, and what you can do about it.
Eric Topol's Deep Medicine argues AI's real gift to healthcare is time — freeing doctors to be more human. Key takeaways, risks, safeguards, and a 7-day action plan.
Karen Hao's Empire of AI reveals the hidden labor, data, and energy costs behind OpenAI's rise — and the November 2023 board crisis that exposed how thin its governance really was.
James Lovelock's final book argues AI won't replace humanity — it will inherit Gaia's job of keeping Earth cool and livable. A summary of Novacene's Anthropocene-to-Novacene argument.
Meredith Broussard's Artificial Unintelligence names "technochauvinism" — the belief that tech is always the answer — and makes the case for algorithmic accountability instead.
Kate Darling’s The New Breed argues our long history with animals — not sci-fi — is the best guide to living well with robots. Key takeaways, deep-dive summary, and a 7-day plan.
Kevin Kelly's 12 forces — Becoming, Cognifying, Accessing, Sharing and more — decoded into a practical framework for reading where technology is really headed.
AI 2041 pairs ten near-future stories by Chen Qiufan with technical essays by Kai-Fu Lee, grounding twenty years of AI speculation in real trends — from deepfakes to quantum computing.
