Automation & Robotics

From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI....

How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology....

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best....

Deepak Chopra invites us to transcend our limitations and explore a relationship with AI that elevates collective consciousness and personal evolution at the same time.

Written in an accessible style for all audiences, “How AI Will Shape Our Future” anchors listeners in the history and evolution of Artificial Intelligence, laying the groundwork for a deeper understanding of its trajectory.

The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein)....

Astrophysicist J. Craig Wheeler, former president of the American Astronomical Society, takes a critical look at the technological advances shaping our future

AI—including generative AI—is radically transforming business. Are you ready? Accenture technology leaders Paul Daugherty and Jim Wilson provide crucial insights and advice to help you meet the challenge.

Long dismissed as a technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence was a project consigned to the fringes of the scientific community. Then two researchers changed everything....

Christopher Mims goes deep, far, and wide to uncover how a single product, from creation to delivery, weaves its way from a factory on the other side of the world to our doorstep. Mims asks us to consider the system’s vulnerability and its resilience....

Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines to help humankind....

In this digital age, many people are surrounded by modern technologies. They have access to a world with a device as small as their palm....

Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and solving an extraordinary range of problems....

A comprehensive guide to understanding and utilizing AI effectively. This book provides listeners with a foundational understanding of AI and its potential applications, as well as practical insights and tools for implementing AI in their own work and personal lives....

What does it mean to be a human in a world that is increasingly built by and for machines? Technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out a hopeful, pragmatic vision of how people can succeed in the machine age....

Red AI: Victories and Warnings From China’s Rise in Artificial Intelligence is the definitive book on one of the most important topics of our time. It is the first thorough investigation of the Chinese AI industry....

The director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory provides an exciting introduction to the true potential of AI.

As lives offline and online merge, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine....

In I, Human psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic offers a guide for reclaiming ourselves in a world in which most of our decisions will be made for us. To do so, we'll need to double down on what makes us so special while relying on the lost virtues of empathy, humility, and self-control....

Artificial intelligence has become an inherent part of our everyday life. This book empowers you with the tools to discover and learn AI systems and languages to understand how they work and benefit today’s world, to let go of the fear that AI will outsmart the human race....

Shannon Vallor makes a wide-ranging, prophetic, and philosophical case for what AI could be: a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth, rather than lose ourselves in mirrors of the past.

This is the first reference book on intelligent automation (IA). Also called hyperautomation, it is one of the most recent trends in the field of artificial intelligence. IA is a cutting-edge combination of methods and technologies....

A military expert reveals how science fiction is fast becoming reality on the battlefield....

The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshaping our ideas of what it means to be human....

In a world of self-driving cars and big data, smart algorithms and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day....