Further reading about AI

Here are a few books that JAAG members have found useful, interesting or inspiring.

Junaid Mubeen
Mathematical Intelligence
2022, Profile Books, London.
“What we have that machines don’t”

Simon McCarthy Jones
Free Thinking
2023, Oneworld Publications, London
“Protecting freedom of thought amidst the new battle for the mind”

Robert Elliott Smith
Rage Inside the Machine
2019, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London & New York
“The Prejudice of Algorithms and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All”.
We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology. Challenges the view that technology is an apolitical and amoral force.

Hannah Critchlow
Joined-Up Thinking 
2022 Hodder & Stoughton, London
“We’re at a pivotal moment in or evolution. The range and complexity of problems that we face, from the climate emergency to global water and food shortages and the threat of the next pansemic mean that we need all brains on deck. When we make the shift from ‘me’ to ‘we’ thinking our world view changes and every single one of us is able to contribute to humanity’s pool of intelligence.”

Susie Alegre
Human Rights, Robot Wrongs – Being Human in the Age of AI 
2024, Atlantic Books, Allen& Unwin, London
“A sharp legal brain who conjures up the wicked problems of AI – a thought – provoking and very humane book”

Dan Davies
The Unaccountability Machine
2024, Profile Books, London
“Why big systems make terrible decisions and how the world lost its mind”