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We read a lot of AI books so you don’t have to
Sunday, 23 November, 2025
It’s been approximately three years since the launch of ChatGPT vaulted “A(G)I” into public consciousness. No coincidence that, around the 2.5-3 year mark, a bunch of AI books have now hit the market…. Jasmine, Jacob, Shira, and I talk through as many as we can get to in this long(! sorry) podcast. In reverse chronological order:* The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019-2025 by Dwarkesh Patel and Gavin Leech (October 2025)* If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares (September 2025)* What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds by Blaise Aguera y Arcas (September 2025)* The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna (May 2025)* Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao (May 2025)An abridged transcript is below, or jump to the bottom of this email to get our “buy/borrow/skip” (spoiler: unfortunately, most people will probably only find around 1.5 books worth reading). As always, audio version is more than a little spicier than the transcript. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit joinreboot.org
