What are some good books on AI ethics?
Last Updated: 01.07.2025 03:25

Marcus, G. (2024). Taming Silicon Valley.
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Compulsive reading is now challenged by chatbots, and literary stasis or equilibrium by language models trained on the totality. Newer books include the big news over the past couple of years such as machine learning after algorithms, GPT-4, generative and multimodal AIs, and the Nobel Prizes. The prior ones might have more reviews though which show up in search, that sponsorship often changing hands. Autonomous arms are actively split between East and West. Futurists can check off a couple of things, and still see more emerging tech as well as competition under constraints of climate. You can find many lit reviews in the papers on preprint engines now. This is for a public weaned on cyberpunk sci-fi and games. Philosophers still argue between speculation and analysis. Regulators are continent or country-specific—the moral being about individual values recognized by a common AGI sooner rather than later. Since Zeno, infinities have been something to avoid, but new fields are still built out of begging the question as a method, approximation, or proxy, e.g. quantum, computing, and simulation. Including what about human nature is revealed and its relationship to ideology. AI also assists in writing. So your follow-up questions to those in the books could produce another.
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Vallor, S. (2024). The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking.
Miller, C. (2022). Chip War.
Acemoglu, D. and Johnson, S. (2023). Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity.
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Rus, D. and Mone, G. (2024). The Heart and the Chip.
Scharre, P. (2023). Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
Schneier, B. (2023). A Hacker's Mind.
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Farahany, N. A. (2023). The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology.
Vinding, M. (2022). Reasoned Politics.
Jongepier, F., & Klenk, M. (Eds.). (2022). The Philosophy of Online Manipulation. Taylor & Francis.
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Chalmers, D. (2022). Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy.
Kyle, C. (2024). Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture.
Miller, S., and others. (2022). National Security Intelligence and Ethics.
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Kissinger, H. A., et al. (2024). Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit.
Lewis, M. (2023). Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.
Werthner, H. et al. (eds.) (2024). Introduction to Digital Humanism: A Textbook.
Bostrom, N. (2024). Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World.
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Kurzweil, R. (2024). The Singularity is Nearer.
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Broussard, M. (2023). More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech. MIT Press.