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Technology, AI & Innovation books
Books on artificial intelligence, digital platforms and building products customers want. They include AI-focused titles such as The Coming Wave, Co-Intelligence and Prediction Machines, and product and innovation guides like Inspired, Continuous Discovery Habits and Creativity, Inc.
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Artificial Integrity
A book about steering artificial intelligence towards human-centred outcomes, built around the idea of integrity in how AI is designed and used. Written by Hamilton Mann for business leaders and others who are responsible for deploying AI in their organisations.
Co-Intelligence
Ethan Mollick offers practical guidance on working with generative AI as a collaborator, covering what it does well, where it makes mistakes and how it may change work and education. It suits managers, professionals and teachers who want to use AI thoughtfully.
Competing in the Age of AI
Makes the case that firms built around data, analytics and AI can scale and learn in ways traditional operating models cannot, and looks at what this means for competition, strategy and leadership. Suited to managers and executives rethinking how their organisations operate.
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres describes a way for product teams to stay in regular contact with customers, using frequent interviews and a visual map of opportunities to guide what they build next. Helpful for product managers, designers and engineers who want evidence behind their decisions.
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull, a co-founder of Pixar, describes how he tried to build and protect a creative culture, covering candid feedback, handling failure and managing people who make complex work together. Useful for leaders of creative or innovative teams.
Empire of AI
An investigative account of the artificial intelligence industry centred on OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman. Karen Hao, a journalist, examines the company and the race to build ever more powerful AI, for readers wanting a critical look at the sector.
Empowered
A guide to leading product teams so that they solve problems rather than simply deliver requested features. Cagan and Jones address the responsibilities of product leaders and the conditions that let teams make good decisions, for managers of technology products.
Exponential Organizations
Looks at organisations that grow far faster than their industry peers and argues that accessible technologies, flexible structures and a clear sense of purpose help them do so. Written for executives and founders who want to understand how fast-scaling companies operate.
Human Compatible
Stuart Russell argues that conventional AI, which optimises fixed objectives, becomes risky as systems grow more capable. He proposes designing machines that are uncertain about human preferences and learn them, so they remain controllable. For readers interested in AI safety.
Inspired
Marty Cagan explains how strong technology companies discover and build products that customers want and that work for the business, with emphasis on the role of product managers and the structure of product teams. Useful for product leaders and anyone building software products.
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark explores how artificial intelligence could reshape society, work and even the future of life, setting out a range of possible outcomes and the questions of safety, goals and consciousness they raise. A wide-ranging introduction for readers new to the AI debate.
Matchmakers
An economic account of multisided platforms, the businesses that bring distinct groups together, such as buyers and sellers, and earn money from the interaction. Evans and Schmalensee explain how such firms are built and run, for entrepreneurs, strategists and students of competition.
Platform Revolution
Explains how platform businesses create value by connecting users and producers, and why network effects and governance choices matter more than they do in traditional firms. Helpful for founders and managers weighing whether and how to build or compete with a platform.
Power and Prediction
Argues that artificial intelligence is best understood as cheaper prediction, and that its biggest gains come when organisations rebuild whole systems and decisions around it rather than adding tools to existing processes. Useful for executives judging where AI will change their industry.
Prediction Machines
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb apply basic economics to artificial intelligence, treating it as a technology that makes prediction cheaper. They explore how that affects decisions, business strategy and jobs, and why human judgement gains in value. For managers weighing AI adoption.
Sprint
Describes a structured five-day process for answering important business questions by sketching solutions, prototyping and testing them with real customers. Written by people who ran design sprints at Google Ventures, it suits teams that want to reduce risk before committing to development.
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom examines what might happen if machine intelligence surpassed human intelligence, considering possible routes to that point, the risks involved and the difficulty of ensuring such systems pursue goals we can accept. A serious, philosophical treatment of AI risk.
The AI-Savvy Leader
A leadership-focused book on AI by David De Cremer, offering guidance on how managers can steer the adoption of artificial intelligence in their organisations. Most relevant to executives and managers who are responsible for decisions about how AI is used at work.
The Coming Wave
Mustafa Suleyman and Michael Bhaskar argue that advances in artificial intelligence and synthetic biology are arriving together as a wave of powerful technologies that will be hard to contain. They discuss the risks and what governments and companies might do about them.
The Industries of the Future
A survey of the fields Alec Ross expects to drive economic change, including robotics, genomics, cybersecurity and big data, with attention to how nations and workers may be affected. Suits readers wanting an accessible overview of emerging technology and its commercial and geopolitical implications.
The Lean Product Playbook
A practical guide to finding product-market fit, built around testing assumptions with customers, releasing minimum viable products and iterating on what you learn. It draws on lean startup thinking and suits product managers, designers and founders building new products.
The Medici Effect
Argues that the most original ideas often arise where different disciplines, industries and cultures meet. Frans Johansson explains how people and organisations can seek out such intersections to generate new combinations, a useful perspective for those leading innovation or diverse teams.
The Second Machine Age
Examines how digital technologies are automating mental as well as physical work, and what that could mean for growth, jobs and inequality. Brynjolfsson and McAfee argue that organisations and policymakers need to adapt to a period of rapid, compounding technological change.
The Thinking Machine
A narrative account of Nvidia and its co-founder Jensen Huang, tracing how the company's chips came to underpin modern artificial intelligence. Stephen Witt tells the story of the business and its leader, for readers curious about the technology industry's direction.
What Matters Next
A guide for business leaders on making technology decisions with people in mind, written by Kate O'Neill, who writes on technology and its human effects. It is concerned with keeping human interests in view as technology and change accelerate.
Where Good Ideas Come From
Steven Johnson looks at the conditions that produce innovation and argues that ideas tend to emerge from connected networks, accidents and the recombination of existing material rather than from lone moments of inspiration. Of interest to anyone who wants to build more inventive teams or workplaces.
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- How many Technology, AI & Innovation books are on this list?
- This page lists 26 Technology, AI & Innovation books and 6 marked Recent / New thinking.
- Which Technology, AI & Innovation books should I start with?
- Good first reads are the featured picks: Artificial Integrity by Hamilton Mann, Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick, Empire of AI by Karen Hao, The AI-Savvy Leader by David De Cremer, and The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt.
- Who is this Technology, AI & Innovation reading list for?
- Executives, product leaders and technologists.
- Are there courses to go with these Technology, AI & Innovation books?
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