Books by Eric Schmidt
“What happens is that we look at things Google, or Facebook, and we see these big corporate enterprises. We don’t see the fact that there are people inside running them, and there have been hurdles.” Read more...
The best books on Personal Branding
Cynthia Johnson, Entrepreneurs & Business People
Interviews where books by Eric Schmidt were recommended
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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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How Google Works
by Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg -

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Extreme You: Step Up. Stand Out. Kick Ass. Repeat.
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World
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Propaganda
by Edward Bernays
The best books on Personal Branding, recommended by Cynthia Johnson
The best books on Personal Branding, recommended by Cynthia Johnson
We all have a brand, whether we want to or not, says Cynthia Johnson—the digital marketing expert and author of Platform: The Art and Science of Personal Branding. Here she selects five of the best books to help you build a better personal brand, and thereby boost your career.
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Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen Hao -

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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares -

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The AI Ideal: AIdealism and the Governance of AI
by Niklas Lidströmer -

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Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
by Craig J. Mundie, Eric Schmidt & Henry A. Kissinger
The Best AI Books in 2026, recommended by ChatGPT
The Best AI Books in 2026, recommended by ChatGPT
Five Books is all about human expertise—speaking to people, in person or via Zoom, about the best books in their field. Once a year, however, we make an exception and turn to a non-human interviewee: ChatGPT, to ask for its recommendations on the best books about artificial intelligence. Here are the five books the AI chose in 2026, along with its recommendation for the single book to read if you were to choose just one.









