10 books to get dangerous at AI, from The Alignment Problem to AI Snake Oil
bigaiguy · x · 2026-09-18
A curated ten-book reading list with one-line takeaways: The Alignment Problem (why aligning AI is hard), Life 3.0 (scenario thinking), The Coming Wave (containment), Co-Intelligence (practical AI collaboration), Human Compatible (Russell's uncertainty approach), Atlas of AI (physical costs), The Worlds I See (Fei-Fei Li's ImageNet story), Superintelligence (AI risk vocabulary), AI Snake Oil (hype detection), and A Brief History of Intelligence.
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