List: Top Books for Learning About Generative Artificial Intelligence

Kissinger, former Secretary of State in the Nixon & Ford administrations; Schmidt, former CEO of Google; Huttenlocher, an acclaimed computer vision research who is currently a dean at MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing. Why it's good: The book's trio of authors brings their expertise in statecraft, business, and academia to explore how AI is set to reshape society. "AI's promise of epoch-making transformations--in society, economics, politics, and foreign policy--portends effects beyond the scope of any single author's or field's traditional focuses," the authors contend in an online preview of the book. In the time since The Age of A.I. was published, a revolution in generative AI has brought us much closer to the promise of artificial general intelligence -- the representation of human cognitive abilities in software-- making the book's discussion of how society will change as machines increasingly perform human tasks all the more relevant.