5 Books to for Non-Technical Users to Better Understand AI

The proliferation of the deployment of algorithms in several areas of society brought big concerns when it comes to ethics and morality. AI models can be extremely harmful to a fair and just society as they may reinforce some bias that is already present in the data fed to the models. Cathy O'Neill's book is a very concise read on the dangers of blindly applying AI models to every aspect of our society. If you are just starting to understand the impact of AI in our daily lives, this book will give you a thoughtful perspective of how machine learning models should be deployed and why you need to be careful with certain AI "magical" solutions. As with most technological breakthroughs, artificial intelligence has the power to be applied to a majority of use cases -- some of them will probably make society extremely productive, while others may have extremely harmful caveats.