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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late

by Cory Doctorow ...

As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the 'reverse centaur'. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machine. It could be a driver made to deliver nonstop, all day long; a warehouse worker packing shelves without bathroom or food breaks; or a programmer reviewing impossible amounts of AI-produced code.Don ... Read more

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As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the 'reverse centaur'. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machine. It could be a driver made to deliver nonstop, all day long; a warehouse worker packing shelves without bathroom or food breaks; or a programmer reviewing impossible amounts of AI-produced code.Don
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Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today

(and other lessons from history from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Power)

by Naomi Alderman ...

**'‘Exactly the book you need right now’ Stylist'You know how the best writers pinpoint something you’ve felt for ages but haven’t been able to articulate? This is like that. It’s so good. She should give Radio 4’s next Reith Lectures' Guardian**An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi ... Read more

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**'‘Exactly the book you need right now’ Stylist'You know how the best writers pinpoint something you’ve felt for ages but haven’t been able to articulate? This is like that. It’s so good. She should give Radio 4’s next Reith Lectures' Guardian**An electrifying, thought-provoking exploration of how the digital era is reshaping our world, by bestselling, Women's Prize-winning writer Naomi
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How to Talk to AI

(And How Not To), the must-read new book on artificial intelligence - the Sunday Times bestseller

by Jamie Bartlett ...

Discover how artificial intelligence thinks and reasons, and how we can make the most of their super-human abilities, in the must read new book from the prize-winning technology writer and author of The Dark Net and The People vs Tech.A BBC ‘BOOK YOU NEED TO READ IN 2026’THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘[An] essential read’ Emma Saunders, BBC Culture ReporterKnowing how to speak to AI – and how n... ... Read more

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Discover how artificial intelligence thinks and reasons, and how we can make the most of their super-human abilities, in the must read new book from the prize-winning technology writer and author of The Dark Net and The People vs Tech.A BBC ‘BOOK YOU NEED TO READ IN 2026’THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘[An] essential read’ Emma Saunders, BBC Culture ReporterKnowing how to speak to AI – and how n...
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Empire of AI

Inside the reckless race for total domination

by Karen Hao ...

A New York Times and Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2025Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearShortlisted for Foyles Non Fiction Book of the Year 2025An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman a... ... Read more

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A New York Times and Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2025Longlisted for the 2025 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearShortlisted for Foyles Non Fiction Book of the Year 2025An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman a...
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A Brief History of Intelligence

Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI

by Max Bennett ...

Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & SlowThe entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way ... Read more

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Bridges the gap between AI and neuroscience by telling the story of how the brain came to be.'I found this book amazing' Daniel Kahneman, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & SlowThe entirety of the human brain’s 4-billion-year story can be summarised as the culmination of five evolutionary breakthroughs, starting from the very first brains, all the way
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The Shortest History of AI

by Toby Walsh ...

Series Book 21 - Shortest History
'If your brain tends to seize up with fear or incomprehension at the mention of AI, this concise and entertaining history is for you' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDSince Alan Turing asked 'Can machines think?' artificial intelligence has grown from a pipe dream into a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this journey, from Ada Lovelace's visionary work to Deep Blue's shocking defeat of ... Read more

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'If your brain tends to seize up with fear or incomprehension at the mention of AI, this concise and entertaining history is for you' SYDNEY MORNING HERALDSince Alan Turing asked 'Can machines think?' artificial intelligence has grown from a pipe dream into a transformative force. The Shortest History of AI traces this journey, from Ada Lovelace's visionary work to Deep Blue's shocking defeat of
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The Atlas of AI

Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

by Kate Crawford ...

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedomWhat happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequality. ... Read more

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The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedomWhat happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequality.
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Nexus

The Sunday Times bestselling history about humans, technology and AI from the author of Sapiens

by Yuval Noah Harari ...

‘If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one’ TOM HANKS‘If there’s one book that I would urge everyone to read – it is Nexus’ STEPHEN FRYThe mind-blowing story of how information networks – from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books ... ... Read more

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‘If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one’ TOM HANKS‘If there’s one book that I would urge everyone to read – it is Nexus’ STEPHEN FRYThe mind-blowing story of how information networks – from the stone age to AI - have shaped our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SapiensStories brought us together.Books ...
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Co-Intelligence

The Definitive, Bestselling Guide to Living and Working with AI

by Ethan Mollick ...

The New York Times BestsellerThe urgent and definitive guide to working, learning, and living in the new age of artificial intelligence from the acclaimed Wharton Professor of Management and author of the One Useful Thing Substack.'The very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit ... Read more

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The New York Times BestsellerThe urgent and definitive guide to working, learning, and living in the new age of artificial intelligence from the acclaimed Wharton Professor of Management and author of the One Useful Thing Substack.'The very best book I know about the ins, outs, and ethics of generative AI. Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW' Angela Duckworth, bestselling author of Grit
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We Are Not Machines

The Fight for the Future of Work

by Sarah O'Connor ...

'Sarah is one of the few people who really understands how AI is changing the character of work already and what it means for all of us' David Runciman'Original and enlightening... Not many books about the labour market make you laugh and bring tears to your eyes' Emma Duncan, The TimesFrom award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O’Connor, a deeply reported investigation into how AI is ... Read more

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'Sarah is one of the few people who really understands how AI is changing the character of work already and what it means for all of us' David Runciman'Original and enlightening... Not many books about the labour market make you laugh and bring tears to your eyes' Emma Duncan, The TimesFrom award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O’Connor, a deeply reported investigation into how AI is
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The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect

by Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie ...

The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winner and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow'Correlation does not imply causation.' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking positions as to ... Read more

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The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read' Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winner and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow'Correlation does not imply causation.' For decades, this mantra was invoked by scientists in order to avoid taking positions as to
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Project Maven

A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare

by Katrina Manson ...

**One of the Economist's Best Books of 2026The dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare.**In 2017, a small crew gathered in a windowless Pentagon room to put AI at the heart of how America makes war. Led by Drew Cukor, an unyielding Marine Corps colonel driven by the deaths of US troops and the prospect of war with an AI-equipped ... Read more

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**One of the Economist's Best Books of 2026The dramatic story of the secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver America into the age of AI warfare.**In 2017, a small crew gathered in a windowless Pentagon room to put AI at the heart of how America makes war. Led by Drew Cukor, an unyielding Marine Corps colonel driven by the deaths of US troops and the prospect of war with an AI-equipped
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Mastering Claude Cowork

by Michael Kral ...

Mastering Claude Cowork: The Definitive Guidebook for Agentic Knowledge WorkYou didn't get into your career to rename files, chase down data, or spend Friday afternoon assembling the same weekly report for the forty-seventh time. But that's where the hours go — buried in the mechanical work that sits between you and the work that actually matters.Claude Cowork changes that equation. It reads your ... Read more

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Mastering Claude Cowork: The Definitive Guidebook for Agentic Knowledge WorkYou didn't get into your career to rename files, chase down data, or spend Friday afternoon assembling the same weekly report for the forty-seventh time. But that's where the hours go — buried in the mechanical work that sits between you and the work that actually matters.Claude Cowork changes that equation. It reads your
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Life Lessons from Game Theory

The Art of Thinking Strategically in a Complex World 'Wooldridge is like the teacher you wish you'd had' GUARDIAN

by Michael Wooldridge ...

**'Wooldridge is like the teacher you wish you'd had'GUARDIAN'This book is simply brilliant . . . I learned so much'SIR DAVID SPIEGELHALTER, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE'Fresh, clever and playful'MATT RIDLEY, AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINS OF VIRTUE**'Michael explains the complex, strategic structures of our world with masterful beauty'MILIND TAMBE, **HARVARD UNIVERSITY'Effortlessly covers a broad swath of cor. ... Read more

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**'Wooldridge is like the teacher you wish you'd had'GUARDIAN'This book is simply brilliant . . . I learned so much'SIR DAVID SPIEGELHALTER, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE'Fresh, clever and playful'MATT RIDLEY, AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINS OF VIRTUE**'Michael explains the complex, strategic structures of our world with masterful beauty'MILIND TAMBE, **HARVARD UNIVERSITY'Effortlessly covers a broad swath of cor.
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I Am Not a Robot

My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything

by Joanna Stern ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids?You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries ... Read more

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWhat happens when intelligent machines aren’t just in our pockets but are also driving our cars, making our decisions, folding our laundry, and educating our kids?You’ve heard the hype: AI will make us healthier, give every child a personalized tutor, run our businesses more efficiently, return hours of free time to our overworked brains, and make discoveries
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

The Case Against Superintelligent AI

by Eliezer Yudkowsky, Nate Soares ...

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The most important book of the decade'** MAX TEGMARK, author of Life 3.0'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster - we must wake up' STEPHEN FRY‘The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read’ YISHAN WONG, former Reddit CEOAI is the greatest threat to our existence that we have ever faced.< ... Read more

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**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'The most important book of the decade'** MAX TEGMARK, author of Life 3.0'A loud trumpet call to humanity to awaken us as we sleepwalk into disaster - we must wake up' STEPHEN FRY‘The best no-nonsense, simple explanation of the AI risk problem I've ever read’ YISHAN WONG, former Reddit CEOAI is the greatest threat to our existence that we have ever faced.<
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Mockingbird

From the author of The Queen's Gambit – now a major Netflix drama

by Walter Tevis ...

Series Book 162 - S.F. MASTERWORKS
The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world that people would rather burn themselves alive than endure.Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have - to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the ... Read more

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The future is a grim place in which the declining human population wanders drugged and lulled by electronic bliss. It's a world without art, reading and children, a world that people would rather burn themselves alive than endure.Even Spofforth, the most perfect machine ever created, cannot bear it and seeks only that which he cannot have - to cease to be. But there is hope for the future in the
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Frictionless

7 Steps to Remove Barriers, Unlock Value, and Outpace Your Competition in the AI Era

by Nicole Forsgren, Abi Noda ...

In an era where AI can generate code in minutes, why do software teams still struggle to deliver?While artificial intelligence transforms how we build software, most organizations remain trapped by friction that turns AI's promise of speed into bottleneck nightmares. Slow deployments, brittle systems, and frustrated developers create invisible drag on innovation—costing US companies $1.52 trillion ... Read more

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In an era where AI can generate code in minutes, why do software teams still struggle to deliver?While artificial intelligence transforms how we build software, most organizations remain trapped by friction that turns AI's promise of speed into bottleneck nightmares. Slow deployments, brittle systems, and frustrated developers create invisible drag on innovation—costing US companies $1.52 trillion
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The Proof in the Code

How a Truth Machine Is Transforming Math and AI

by Kevin Hartnett ...

The inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Leo de Moura. Then an unlikely crew of mathematical misfits caught wind of it and began to adopt it with messianic zeal. Their goal was to create a truth machine that could ... Read more

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The inside story of Lean, a computer program that answers the age-old question: How do you know if something is true?It began as an obscure bug-checking program at Microsoft Research developed by a lone computer engineer named Leo de Moura. Then an unlikely crew of mathematical misfits caught wind of it and began to adopt it with messianic zeal. Their goal was to create a truth machine that could
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The Age of AI

"THE BOOK WE ALL NEED"

by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, Daniel Huttenlocher ...

THE WAY HUMANS NAVIGATE THE WORLD IS ALTERING, FOREVER.THIS IS YOUR ESSENTIAL AI ROADMAP.AI is revolutionizing how we approach security, economics, order and even knowledge itself.It is changing how we experience reality, and our role within it.Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers explore what this means for our present and our future, tackling the questions that will affect as all ... Read more

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THE WAY HUMANS NAVIGATE THE WORLD IS ALTERING, FOREVER.THIS IS YOUR ESSENTIAL AI ROADMAP.AI is revolutionizing how we approach security, economics, order and even knowledge itself.It is changing how we experience reality, and our role within it.Three of our most accomplished and deep thinkers explore what this means for our present and our future, tackling the questions that will affect as all
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Agentic AI for Offensive Cybersecurity

Build and automate smarter penetration testing workflows using AI-driven agents

by Orhan Yildirim ...

Master offensive security with Agentic AI, MCP, and n8n. Build automated penetration testing workflows for reconnaissance, exploitation, reporting, and continuous threat intelligence.Key FeaturesBuild end-to-end agentic AI-driven penetration testing workflows using n8n and Model Context Protocol(MCP).Automate reconnaissance, exploitation, payload generation, and professional vulnerability ... Read more

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Master offensive security with Agentic AI, MCP, and n8n. Build automated penetration testing workflows for reconnaissance, exploitation, reporting, and continuous threat intelligence.Key FeaturesBuild end-to-end agentic AI-driven penetration testing workflows using n8n and Model Context Protocol(MCP).Automate reconnaissance, exploitation, payload generation, and professional vulnerability
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The Technological Republic

The Sunday Times bestseller from the great minds behind Palantir

by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W.Zamiska ...

The Sunday Times and #1 New York Times Bestseller‘The Technological Republic is far too important to ignore’ Times Literary SupplementSilicon Valley’s brightest minds once collaborated with governments to advance technologies, securing the West’s dominance on the global stage. But that relationship has corroded – with perilous repercussions for us all.Lifting the veil on tech giant Palantir and it ... Read more

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The Sunday Times and #1 New York Times Bestseller‘The Technological Republic is far too important to ignore’ Times Literary SupplementSilicon Valley’s brightest minds once collaborated with governments to advance technologies, securing the West’s dominance on the global stage. But that relationship has corroded – with perilous repercussions for us all.Lifting the veil on tech giant Palantir and it
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The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy

What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves

by Arik Kershenbaum ...

DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly biology' Richard Dawkins'Crawls with curious facts' Sunday Times_________________________We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as... ... Read more

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DISCOVER HOW LIFE REALLY WORKS - ON EARTH AND IN SPACE'A wonderfully insightful sidelong look at Earthly biology' Richard Dawkins'Crawls with curious facts' Sunday Times_________________________We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as...
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Enterprise AI Orchestration: A Field Guide for AI Orchestrators

by Sam Alderman ...

Most enterprise AI initiatives do not fail because the models are weak. They fail because the system around them was never designed to work.This book shows enterprise leaders how to move from promising pilots to AI systems that actually scale, govern, and deliver business value.Enterprise AI Orchestration is a practical guide for CTOs, CDOs, AI leaders, transformation executives, and business ... Read more

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Most enterprise AI initiatives do not fail because the models are weak. They fail because the system around them was never designed to work.This book shows enterprise leaders how to move from promising pilots to AI systems that actually scale, govern, and deliver business value.Enterprise AI Orchestration is a practical guide for CTOs, CDOs, AI leaders, transformation executives, and business
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