{"id":11428,"count":36,"description":"As artificial intelligence becomes more important in today's increasingly digitised world, here are some AI books to get you up to speed. Most of them are written for the general public and don't require specialist knowledge. For example, Stuart Russell, a professor at Berkeley and co-author of one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/artificial-intelligence-modern-approach-russell-norvig\/\">top-ranked computer science\/AI textbooks<\/a> (according to the Open Syllabus Project), has also written a popular book about AI: <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/human-compatible-stuart-russell\/\"><em>Human Compatible<\/em><\/a>.\r\n\r\nSome AI books focus on its huge potential; others warn of its pitfalls if it's not handled with sufficient caution and care. Several look at the ethical aspects of AI and digital technology in general, including anything from worries about large-scale surveillance by authoritarian states to tricks that get you spending too much time on your screen. Hovering over many of the debates is the prospect of 'superintelligence,' the day when AIs are smarter than humans, a moment which may have serious consequences for our well-being (and predicted to happen in 2045 in <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/the-singularity-is-near-when-humans-transcend-biology\/\"><em>The Singularity is Near<\/em><\/a> by Ray Kurzweil).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/the-best-ai-books-in-2025-chatgpt\/\">Best books on AI 2025<\/a> |","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/","name":"Artificial Intelligence\/AI Books","slug":"artificial-intelligence","taxonomy":"category","parent":11196,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11196"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=11428"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=11428"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=11428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}