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The first comprehensive history of the background, origins, and philosophical evolution of the Tech Right—the movement blending Silicon Valley futurism with reactionary politics that is now reshaping power in the US and beyond The alignment of Silicon Valley figures like Peter Thiel and Elon...

From a leading Harvard AI safety expert, an explosive vision, drawn from emerging new research, of the terrifyingly short road to cognitive diminishment, as humans have begun to be caught in the flywheel of domestication. This is not a book about AI. This is a book about the human mind in the...

A brilliant and important reckoning with the seismic shocks on our economy, our politics, and our society from the collapse of skilled work at a scale that has no historical precedent We have never been here before. Analogies to industrialization, or electrification, or the internet, are fine...

A completely original explanation for the inevitable rise of artificial intelligence—and a deeply human survival strategy grounded in four billion years of evolution. "The best-case scenario," an AI expert told D. Scott Phoenix, "is that an AI-related accident kills 50 to 100 million people in...

An insider’s gripping account of how today’s AI gold rush was driven by the biggest theft of creative work the world has ever seen. The Intelligence Heist tells the riveting story of how the world’s creative work was stolen to power the rise of artificial intelligence. Building AI systems...

A reflection on how to listen and pay attention amid the constant noise that saturates our public and private lives. From podcasts sounding through earbuds to talk shows blaring from televisions, from the continuous stream of social media on our phones to doctors’ waiting rooms with pumped-in...

You can't separate marketing, product, and AI anymore—The Algorithmic Shopper will help you win the next era. Marketing has always relied on human psychology—now that trillion-dollar ecosystem is becoming obsolete. For over a century, companies have tirelessly studied our aspirations and our...

A leading technology expert presents your guide to the next 25 years with a sweeping grand narrative about America’s current reinvention—one that makes the most of artificial intelligence and other transformative technologies and builds a world of abundance that works better for all. The...

“This may be the most important book written about technology, human flourishing, and what we need to protect to become fully ourselves.” —Lori Gottlieb, bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone A sobering look at how digital life is eroding our thinking, our freedom, and...

Blending personal narrative with critical analysis, Big Tech Dynasties reckons with the place of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon in modern life. It argues that while each company may be a product of platform capitalism, each is also historically familiar; Big Tech is familiar because...

From award-winning and bestselling science journalist Angela Saini, comes a groundbreaking exposé of the hidden harms of race and sex data across medicine, education, politics and society at large. ‘One of the world’s best science writers’ Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An...

A riveting narrative account of how prediction markets are changing our world and transforming the very nature of democracy. “In The Big Bet, Michael Auerbach explores the past, present, and future of the prediction market ... This is a dazzling and entertaining book ... But it is also an...

When Geoffrey Hinton, the pioneering architect of artificial neural networks, resigned from Google in 2023 following an epiphany about the dangers of artificial intelligence, it made headlines around the world. Smarter Than Us is his long-awaited call to arms. As he shows, only by fully...

The Nobel Prize–winning “godfather of AI” explains why the machines he helped create may soon surpass us—and what humanity can still do to shape the future. Geoffrey Hinton is one of the architects of modern artificial intelligence. For more than half a century, he has sought to...

Landlords are using software to band together and organise artificial rent hikes. Uber is spiking the price of rides when your phone's about to die. And without drivers' knowledge, car companies are installing software that reports your driving behaviour to insurance companies, so they can...

A guide to protecting your strategic thinking skills against an overreliance on automated thinking and AI by a Thinkers50 expert on leadership in the age of AI. When was the last time you really thought something through, all the way to the end, by yourself? For decades, we've been quietly...

A critical reexamination of techno-optimism’s empty promises, and how the lessons of the past can help us regain control of our future. For thirty years, Silicon Valley leaders have promised dramatic technological innovation as long as we—the public, journalists, regulators, and...

An eye-opening examination into a chilling paradox: our hunger for security—from border walls to video doorbells—is making us less safe and weakening democracies worldwide, for readers of Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff How much are you willing to give up to feel safe? Ruben Andersson argues...

Seeing fairness through a computational lens More and more of the decisions that shape our lives are driven by algorithms: what healthcare we receive, what loans we are offered, whom we date, the news we read, the schools we attend, and the jobs we get. These systems do not merely assist human...