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Artificial Intelligence

Love, science, and dystopia. These fiction and nonfiction titles illustrate societal impacts of AI. Request your own personalized reading list at https://bpl.bc.ca/people-help/reading-recommendations

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  • On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the the empire that conquered…
    BookNew York, NY : Orbit, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, 2023. — SF Leck
  • A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence

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

    Wooldridge, Michael J., 1966-
    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 fields in science: artificial Intelligence. (NoveList) #nonfiction #history #science…
    BookNew York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2021. — 006.309 Woo
  • I Am Code

    An Artificial Intelligence Speaks : Poems

    code-davinci-002 (Artificial intelligence),
    This work was composed by an artificial intelligence. "I Am Code reads like a thriller written in verse, and is given critical context from top writers and scientists." (Goodreads). #poetry #experimental
    BookNew York : Back Bay Books, 2023. — 811 Cod
  • Atlas of AI

    Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

    Crawford, Kate, 1974-
    What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? The author reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward…
    BookNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2021] — 006.301 Cra
  • In a near-future society dominated by multinational corporations, drug pirate Jack Chen reverse-engineers expensive medications and distributes free copies to those who can't afford the real thing. As a result, her activities have…
    BookNew York : Tor, 2017. — Newi
  • It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. It is the tale of the disparate people - a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an…
    BookNew York : Ace, 2018. — Hein
  • AI 2041

    Ten Visions for Our Future

    Lee, Kai-Fu
    In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the…
    BookNew York : Currency, [2021] — 006.3 Lee
  • "Flann O'Brien's most popular and surrealistic novel concerns an imaginary, hellish village police force and a local murder. Weird, satirical, and funny." (NoveList) Although the novel does not discuss AI, its treatment of bicycles is…
    BookChampaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 1999. — MYS OBri
  • The Alignment Problem

    Machine Learning and Human Values

    Christian, Brian, 1984-
    The author exposes the ethical and potentially existential risks of data-trained artificial-intelligence algorithms that are making inherently flawed decisions on behalf of humans, outlining ambitious recommendations for urgent responses…
    BookNew York, New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. — 006.31019 Chr
  • Part of the Culture series. These novels describe "the Culture, a post-scarcity semi-anarchist utopia consisting of humanoid races and managed by super-intelligent artificial intelligences. The books do not need to be read in order.…
    BookLondon : Orbit, [2005], c1990. — Bank
  • An award-winning author and leading computer scientist, interweaving stories and the science and the people behind it, separates science fact from science fiction in this exploration into artificial intelligence and how it is changing our…
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. — 006.3 Mit
  • Captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which sophisticated androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers. (NoveList) #scifi #Blade Runner
    BookNew York : Del Ray, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, 2017 — SF Dick
  • Case was the sharpest data thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably…
    BookNew York, New York : Penguin Books, 2016 — SF Gibs
  • The Worlds I See

    Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

    Li, Fei Fei, 1976-
    The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI revolution. (NoveList) #memoir #science writing
    BookNew York : Moment of Lift Books : 2023 — 004.092 LiF
  • The Earth will be destroyed by Solaria's robot army if Elijah Baley fails to find the murderer of an eminent scientist. (NoveList) #scifi #mystery
    BookNew York : Bantam Books, c1991. — Asim
  • The Loop

    How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices and How to Fight Back

    Ward, Jake,
    A technology correspondent for NBC News takes readers on a world tour of the ongoing, real-world experiment of artificial intelligence, revealing the perils of writing dangerous human habits into our machines. (NoveList) #nonfiction…
    BookNew York, NY : Hachette Books, Hachette Books Group, 2022. — 006.3 War
  • Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.…
    BookLondon : Hodder, 2015. — Cham
  • In this book, you’ll learn how ChatGPT works and how you can operate it in a way that yields satisfactory results. You’ll also explore the ethics of using AI-generated content for various purposes. (Goodreads) #nonfiction #technology
    BookHoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023] — 006.35 Bak
  • Waiting to be chosen by a customer, an Artificial Friend programmed with high perception observes the activities of shoppers while exploring fundamental questions about what it means to love. (NoveList) #literary #scifi
    BookToronto : Knopf Canada, 2021. — Ishi
  • The noted inventor and futurist explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come. (Goodreads) #nonfiction #science writing #future
    BookViking 2024/06/18