Artificial Intelligence Reading Path

Understand the AI revolution and learn how to harness artificial intelligence in business, product development, and daily work. From foundational concepts to practical applications, these books will prepare you for the age of intelligent machines.

Outcome: Understand AI capabilities and limitations, apply AI in business contexts, navigate the ethical and strategic implications.

Books in this path (5)

1

Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

Ethan Mollick, 2024

• AI is not a tool you use. It is a collaborator you work with.
• The question is not what AI can do, but what AI can help us become.

2

The Coming Wave

Mustafa Suleyman, 2023

• From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves.
• Invention is a cumulative, compounding process. It feeds on itself.

3

Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark, 2017

• The real risk with AGI isn't malice but competence. A superintelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren't aligned with ours, we're in trouble.
• AI is not good or bad by itself. It's a tool. It's up to us how we use it.

4

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Nick Bostrom, 2014

• Before the prospect of an intelligence explosion, we humans are like small children playing with a bomb.
• The first superintelligence may be the last invention humans ever need to make — provided we get it right.

5

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Yuval Noah Harari, 2024

• Humans have always lived in a dual reality: the objective reality of rivers, trees, and lions, and the imagined reality of gods, nations, and corporations.
• Information is not the same as truth. In fact, information has often been the enemy of truth.

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