What Is Intelligence?
Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds
What Is Life?
Evolution as Computation
Who Are We Now?
Ubi Sunt
Contributed Chapters
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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 SethumadhavanThe 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
Reading at the Moment
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Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond
David J. Gunkel
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Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow
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Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
Dan Wang
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The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing
Brink Lindsey
Recommended by Blaise
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Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company
Patrick McGee
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When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Steven Pinker
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Katabasis
R.F. Kuang
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How Language Began: The Story of Humanity’s Greatest Invention
Daniel Everett
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Experiments in Mystical Atheism
Brook Ziporyn
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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World
Oona A. Hathaway & Scott J. Shapiro
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When Giants Ruled the Sky: The Brief Reign and Tragic Demise of the American Rigid Airship
John J. Geoghegan
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The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop Per Child
Morgan G. Ames