Diving in to Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

A Guide for Thinking Humans

By: Melanie Mitchell
Narrated by: Abby Craden, Melanie Mitchell & Tony Wolf
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

No recent scientific enterprise has proved as alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. The award-winning author Melanie Mitchell, a leading computer scientist, now reveals its turbulent history and the recent surge of... Read more about Artificial Intelligence

Empire of AI

Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

By: Karen Hao
Narrated by: Karen Hao
Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

A New York Times Notable Book • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • Named a Best Book of the Year by Smithsonian, Scientific American, and Elle • Porchlight 2025 Business Book Award Winner

“A bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world . . .... Read more about Empire of AI

Unmasking AI

My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

By: Joy Buolamwini
Narrated by: Joy Buolamwini
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls.

“AI is not coming, it’s here. If we answer the beautiful call inside these pages, we can decide who we are going to be and how we’re going to use technology in service of... Read more about Unmasking AI

The AI Con

How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want

By: Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna
Narrated by: Jade Wheeler
Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner, and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors at work and in the world. Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world? Have big... Read more about The AI Con

Superagency

What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future

By: Reid Hoffman & Greg Beato
Narrated by: Scott Wallace & AI Narration
Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Narrated by Scott Wallace and converted with AI to Reid Hoffman's voice

Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller.

Tech visionary and co-founder of Manas AI Reid Hoffman shares his unique insider’s perspective on an AI-powered future, making the case for its potential to unlock a world of possibilities.

"An essential companion." —... Read more about Superagency

The Coming Wave

AI, Power, and Our Future

By: Mustafa Suleyman
Narrated by: Mustafa Suleyman
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI

“A fascinating,... Read more about The Coming Wave

The Algorithm

How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now

By: Hilke Schellmann
Narrated by: Hilke Schellmann
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Based on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents, and real world test results, Emmy‑award winning Wall Street Journal contributor Hilke Schellmann delivers a shocking and illuminating expose on the next civil rights issue of our time: how AI has already taken over the workplace and shapes our future.
 
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Co-Intelligence

Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick
Narrated by: Ethan Mollick
Length: 4 hours 39 minutes

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI

Something new entered our world in November 2022 — the first general purpose AI that could pass for a human and do the kinds of... Read more about Co-Intelligence

A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going

By: Michael Wooldridge
Narrated by: Glen McCready
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: Artificial Intelligence

The somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware, and sentient; machines capable of the kind of intelligent... Read more about A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

The Worlds I See

Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Dr. Fei-Fei Li
Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

“A beautifully written memoir of an immigrant journey, undertaken to realize a family's and daughter’s dream, and of the development of artificial intelligence. Dr Fei-Fei Li’s story sweeps from Chengdu to New Jersey, high school math to Princeton and Caltech, garage sales to research labs, despair to hope. Bookended by testimony in front of... Read more

Blood in the Machine

The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

By: Brian Merchant
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year

The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein) The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years... Read more about Blood in the Machine

God, Human, Animal, Machine

Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

By: Meghan O'Gieblyn
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

“From the author of Interior States, an award-winning essay collection about the intricacies of religion and identity, comes a meditation on what it means to be human in an age of almost inexplicable technology like artificial intelligence. O’Gieblyn draws on her own experiences growing up in a religious family to frame the highly intellectual... Read more

AI Ethics

MIT Press Essential Knowledge

By: Mark Coeckelbergh
Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes

Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of... Read more about AI Ethics

AI 2041

Ten Visions for Our Future

By: Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan
Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Justin Chien, Soneela Nankani, Mirron Willis, Emily Woo Zeller, Siho Ellsmore & Fajer Al-Kaisi
Length: 18 hours 4 minutes

How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times)

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial Times
 
Long before the advent of... Read more about AI 2041

Progressive Capitalism

How to Make Tech Work for All of Us

By: Ro Khanna
Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Congressman Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary, “progressive” (James J. Heckman, Nobel Prize winner and professor of economics at the University of Chicago) roadmap to facing America’s digital divide, offering greater economic prosperity to all. In Khanna’s vision, “just as people can move to technology, technology can move to people” (from the... Read more about Progressive Capitalism

Race After Technology

Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

By: Ruha Benjamin
Narrated by: Mia Ellis
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.



Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen... Read more about Race After Technology

The Alignment Problem

Machine Learning and Human Values

By: Brian Christian
Narrated by: Brian Christian
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them.Today’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us―and to make decisions on our behalf. But alarm bells are ringing. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the... Read more about The Alignment Problem

Deep Learning

By: John D. Kelleher
Narrated by: Joel Richards
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Deep learning is an artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition in mobile phones, machine translation, AI games, driverless cars, and other applications. When we use consumer products from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, or Baidu, we are often interacting with a deep learning system. In this volume in... Read more about Deep Learning

Machine Learning

The New AI

The MIT Press Essential Knowledge

By: Ethem Alpaydi
Narrated by: Steven Menasche
Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition -- as well as some we don't yet use everyday, including driverless cars. It is the basis of the new approach in computing where we do not write programs but collect data; the idea is to learn the algorithms for the tasks... Read more about Machine Learning