The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late – Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow has probably the most moderate opinion on this topic. I hope this is the last book on AI that I ever read.
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The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late – Judith Enck, Adam Mahoney
If I owned a bookstore there would be a whole bookshelf simply labeled “Doomerism non-fiction”
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI – Yuval Noah Harari
Kind of another book on AI, but Harari has interesting things to say
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires – Tim Wu
Companies that manage information will always try to be monopolies.
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If Anyone Builds it Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All – Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares
One can think that AI isn’t going to come alive anytime soon and still think that it is a very bad idea to build an AI
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do – Erik J. Larson
AI isn’t going to reach the Kurzweilian dream any time soon
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It – Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow should be required reading for anyone living through the tragedy that is modern times.
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning – Justin E. H. Smith
An argument that we should look at the internet in a slightly different way.
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World – Parmy Olson
Parmy Olson is talented, but not even she can make the AI race interesting to me.
read more Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World – Parmy Olson
