AI Resources
LEARN THE BASICS
- AI basics – MIT
- How Does AI Work? A Beginner’s Guide – Caltech
BOOKS
- Empire of AI – Karen Hao
- Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It – Cory Doctorow
- Careless People – Sarah Wynn-Williams
- The AI Mirror – Shannon Vallor
- Wise Animals – Tom Chatfield
- God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning – Meghan O’Gieblyn
- AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference – Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor
- AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future – Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
EVENTS
PODCASTS
- Your Undivided Attention – Tristan Harris & Eza Raskin (philosophical, social, political impacts)
- Better Offline – Ed Zitron
- Cory Doctorow’s Craphound
- In Conversation – Nathalie Nahai
- The TED AI Show – Bilawal Sidhu (deep dive into key themes)
- The AI Daily Brief – Nathaniel Whittamoore (updates in AI and emerging tech)
- Last Week In AI – Andrey Kurenkov (weekly summaries of the AI news)
- Hard Fork (NYT) – Journalists Kevin Roose & Casey Newton (making sense of emerging tech)
- The Great Simplification – Nate Hagens (multipolar trap, metacrisis, systemic change)
NEWSLETTERS
- How To Survive The Broligarchy – Carole Cadwalladr
- Gary Marcus
- Where’s Your Ed At – Ed Zitron
- Axios AI+
- CogX (by Charlie Muirhead)
- Mindstream
- AI Snake Oil (by Sayash Kapoor)