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Summer reading list explores AI's impact on geopolitics and relationships

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

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Summer reading list explores AI's impact on geopolitics and relationships

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    What to read: A summer book list

    Rest of World recommends eight books that cover the history of resistance to tech, our relationship with AI companions, the danger of our dependence on Taiwan chips, and more.