What Is Intelligence?

Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds

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What Is Life?

Evolution as Computation

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Who Are We Now?

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Ubi Sunt

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Contributed Chapters

  • Machine Decision Is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence

    “The Mother of Ten Thousand Things”

    Editors: Benjamin Bratton, Bogna Konior, Anna Greenspan, and Amy Ireland

    Urbanomic, 2025

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  • Collaborative Intelligence: How Humans and AI Are Transforming Our World

    “The Birth and Rebirth of AI”

    By Karen Chappell Arellano
    Editors: Mira Lane and Arathi Sethumadhavan

    The MIT Press, 2024

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  • The Good Robot

    “Good Technology Is Cooperative”

    Editors: Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney

    Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

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  • Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data and Intelligent Machines

    “Physiognomy’s New Clothes”

    Editors: Jude Browne, Stephen Cave, Eleanor Drage, and Kerry McInerney

    Oxford University Press, 2024

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  • Surrealism & Design Now: From Dalí to AI

    Editor: Kathryn Johnson

    The Design Museum, 2022

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Reading at the Moment

  • Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond

    David J. Gunkel

  • Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

    Cory Doctorow

  • Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

    Dan Wang

  • The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing

    Brink Lindsey

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  • Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company

    Patrick McGee

  • When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life

    Steven Pinker

  • Katabasis

    R.F. Kuang

  • How Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention

    Daniel Everett

  • Experiments in Mystical Atheism

    Brook Ziporyn

  • The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

    Oona A. Hathaway & Scott J. Shapiro

  • When Giants Ruled the Sky: The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship

    John J. Geoghegan

  • The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child

    Morgan G. Ames