• The best books on Machine Learning - Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity by Steve Shwartz
  • The best books on Machine Learning - Mining Your Own Business: A Primer for Executives on Understanding and Employing Data Mining and Predictive Analytics by Gerhard Pilcher & Jeff Deal
  • The best books on Machine Learning - Digital Decisioning: Using Decision Management to Deliver Business Impact from AI by James Taylor
  • The best books on Machine Learning - The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
  • The best books on Machine Learning - Handbook of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining Applications by Robert Nisbet, John Elder, Gary D. Miner

The best books on Machine Learning, recommended by Eric Siegel

Machine learning uses data to predict outcomes, explains Eric Siegel, a former professor at Columbia who now advises companies on deploying it in their business. Unlike artificial intelligence, it’s a real technology with a proven track record, he says. He recommends practical books on machine learning that are accessible to the layperson and useful to anyone looking to use it in their business or organization.

  • The best books on Artificial Intelligence - AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Chen Qiufan & Kai-Fu Lee
  • The best books on Artificial Intelligence - Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
  • The best books on Artificial Intelligence - Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Peter Norvig & Stuart Russell
  • The best books on Artificial Intelligence - The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos
  • The best books on Artificial Intelligence - Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

The best books on Artificial Intelligence, recommended by ChatGPT

Normally at Five Books we ask experts to recommend the best books in their field and talk to us about them in an interview, either in person, by phone or via Zoom. In January 2023, we asked the AI bot, ChatGPT, to recommend books to us on the topic of AI. Being an AI doesn’t necessarily make the chatbot an expert on AI books, but we thought it might have some ideas. This week we caught up with ChatGPT to find out if there were any new AI books it wanted to recommend in the year since we spoke. Read more nonfiction book recommendations on Five Books

  • The best books on Digital Ethics - Zed: A Novel by Joanna Kavenna
  • The best books on Digital Ethics - Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
  • The best books on Digital Ethics - Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World by Christopher Wylie
  • The best books on Digital Ethics - Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
  • The best books on Digital Ethics - AI Ethics by Mark Coeckelbergh

The best books on Digital Ethics, recommended by Carissa Véliz

Philosophers have a lot to add to debates about digital technology and the moral issues raised by its rapid rise, argues Carissa Véliz, a professor at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI. Here she talks us through books for the general reader that introduce some of the challenges of digital ethics, from concerns about privacy and bias to the threat to democracy and the future of humanity.  

  • Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Books - Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford
  • Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Books - The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design by Aaron Roth & Michael Kearns
  • Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Books - Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell
  • Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Books - The Technological Singularity by Murray Shanahan
  • Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Books - Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong by Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen
  • Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Books - 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Books, recommended by Paula Boddington

Advances in artificial intelligence pose a myriad of ethical questions, but the most incisive thinking on this subject says more about humans than it does about machines, says Paula Boddington, philosopher and author of a recent AI ethics textbook. We first spoke to Paula in 2017—a long time ago in a fast-moving field. This week we caught up with her to find out what’s happened since then and which new books have taken the conversation over ethics and AI further.