What to read: A summer book list
A summer reading list features several books discussing artificial intelligence and its broader societal and geopolitical implications. One book examines the economic and political competition between the U.S. and China over AI development, predicting a fragmented global economy. Another explores how AI companions are transforming human relationships, intimacy, and connection. The list also includes titles on the history of technological rejection, the complex supply chains powering modern tech, and India's past struggles to develop its own computing industry. AI
- China
- U.S.
- Artificial Intelligence
- TSMC
- Eyck Freymann
- Nick Srnicek
- Dwaipayan Banerjee
- James Muldoon
- Nicolas Niarchos
- Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming our Relationships
- Thomas Dekeyser
- Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI
- Computing in the Age of Decolonization: India’s Lost Technological Revolution
- Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine
- Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War With China
- The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth