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Books like Tools and Weapons
The best books like Tools and Weapons are Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. Tools and Weapons by Brad Smith & Carol Ann Browne is about technology policy, digital ethics, privacy. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom · Science
Superintelligence is Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom's systematic analysis of what might happen if artificial intelligence systems become more capable than humans — and why that transition might represent one of the most significant risks in human history.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stuart Russell · Science
Human Compatible is Stuart Russell's argument, from inside mainstream AI research, that the standard model of AI — build a system that optimizes for a fixed objective — is the wrong approach, and that the transition to much more capable AI systems requires a fundamental change in how AI is designed.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff · History
Shoshana Zuboff spent years researching what she calls surveillance capitalism — a new economic logic in which human experience is turned into raw material for prediction products that are sold to businesses wanting to influence behavior.
Both dig into privacy.
Read the summary → - The Alignment Problem
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Brian Christian · Science
Brian Christian's The Alignment Problem examines a fundamental challenge in machine learning: how do you ensure that an artificial system actually pursues the goals you intend, rather than a close but dangerous approximation?
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - AI Superpowers
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Kai-Fu Lee · Business
AI Superpowers is Kai-Fu Lee's argument that the geopolitical competition to lead in artificial intelligence is primarily a two-country race between the United States and China, and that the outcome will reshape the global economy in ways most people haven't started to reckon with.
Shares technology policy and artificial intelligence with Tools and Weapons.
Read the summary → - Co-Intelligence
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Ethan Mollick · Business
Co-Intelligence is Ethan Mollick's argument that large language models represent something genuinely new — not a search engine, not a simple automation tool — and that the right response is not fear or hype but active, informed experimentation.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - Competing in the Age of AI
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Marco Iansiti & Karim Lakhani · Business
Competing in the Age of AI is Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani's argument that artificial intelligence is not just another technology to be adopted, but a fundamental redesign of how firms operate — and that companies built from the start with AI at their core will eventually displace firms that try to bolt AI onto traditional operating models.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb · Business
Power and Prediction is the second book from Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb — the economists behind Prediction Machines — and it takes a more pointed look at what cheap AI-driven prediction actually disrupts.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Arthur C. Clarke · Science fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey begins with prehistoric man-apes encountering a featureless black monolith that somehow catalyzes their cognitive leap from prey to hunter.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - Atlas of AI
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Kate Crawford · Science
Atlas of AI is Kate Crawford's account of what artificial intelligence actually is — not a disembodied intelligence but a physical system built from extracted minerals, underpaid labor, vast energy consumption, and accumulated data taken largely without meaningful consent.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
Read the summary → - Deep Learning
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Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville · Science
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville is the standard graduate-level textbook on the mathematical and computational foundations of deep neural networks.
Both dig into artificial intelligence.
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Books like Tools and Weapons: quick answers
What are the best books like Tools and Weapons?
The best books like Tools and Weapons by Brad Smith & Carol Ann Browne are Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff, The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian, AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Tools and Weapons, such as technology policy, digital ethics, privacy.
What should I read after Tools and Weapons?
A natural next read after Tools and Weapons is Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom. Both dig into artificial intelligence. Other strong choices are Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff, The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian.
What books are similar to Tools and Weapons by Brad Smith & Carol Ann Browne?
Tools and Weapons centers on technology policy, digital ethics, privacy. Books with a similar feel include Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff, The Alignment Problem by Brian Christian, AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee, Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
