Keep the journey going.

Chip War

Chris Miller

Semiconductors as industrial policy, supply chains, and geopolitical power.

Co-Intelligence

Ethan Mollick

Practical ways students and managers can work with generative AI.

AI Snake Oil

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

A strong antidote to AI hype, explaining what current systems can and cannot do.

(Specific examples age, but its framework for evaluating exaggerated claims is durable.)

Empire of AI

Karen Hao

A deeply reported history of OpenAI, its ambitions, internal culture, and social consequences.

(Institutional history has lasting value.)

The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025

Dwarkesh Patel, edited by Gavin Leech

Edited interviews with leading figures including Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, Demis Hassabis, Mark Zuckerberg, and Eliezer Yudkowsky.

(Great firsthand interviews of the evolution of LLMs and companies in the AI space.)

The AGI Chronicles

Kevin Roose

A reported history of the race toward artificial general intelligence, drawing on interviews and documents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind.

(Similarly captures AI’s development to the present.)

The Algorithm

Hilke Schellmann

An examination of how AI is changing hiring, workplace evaluation, and management.

(Broad concerns about bias, transparency, and accountability will remain relevant over time.)