ChatGPT
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI that is designed to understand and generate human-like text. It is powered by a large language model trained on vast amounts of data, allowing it to respond to questions, explain concepts, and assist with a wide range of tasks such as writing, coding, and problem-solving. ChatGPT works by analyzing the input it receives and predicting the most relevant and helpful response, making it useful for conversations, learning, and everyday assistance, although it does not think or have awareness like a human.
Interviews with ChatGPT
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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.
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Peter Norvig & Stuart Russell -
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
by Ray Kurzweil -
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The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
by Brian Christian -
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Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World
by Parmy Olson -
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari
The Best AI Books in 2025, recommended by ChatGPT
The Best AI Books in 2025, recommended by ChatGPT
It’s January and time for our annual interview with an AI chatbot. We asked ChatGPT for its latest recommendations for books on artificial intelligence.
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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Chen Qiufan & Kai-Fu Lee -
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Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
by Kate Crawford -
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Peter Norvig & Stuart Russell -
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The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
by Pedro Domingos -
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by Nick Bostrom
The best books on Artificial Intelligence, recommended by ChatGPT
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.
