Book Reviews

And the winner by acclamation in the nonfiction ‘Holy Crap! I May Never Be Able To Sleep Again!’ category is Sandworm by Andy Greenberg. And, yes, Greenberg’s tale of cyberwar over the past decade is absolutely that terrifying. Here’s how his book begins: On June 27,...

American democracy has persisted for almost 250 years. This despite a couple of world wars, the Great Depression, multiple presidential assassinations and, of course, a civil war. Our democracy has been sufficiently robust to take these various disruptions, cataclysmic as they were, more or less in stride.

“What if we succeed?” Specifically, what happens if we, the AI scientists of the world, succeed in building ever-smarter, ever-more-capable machines, eventually rivaling or surpassing the intelligence of humans? Will the world be better off, or worse? That’s the...

Two buttoned-down AI scientists and a ‘can’t we all just get along?’ hippie walk into a bar . . .

OK, please forgive the click-bait opening sentence, but after reading these two very different books about the very same subject, I couldn’t help myself.

Leaders in both tech and government will be talking about this book, and grappling with it, for a very long time. And it often surprises — not because its opinions are startling, but because hearing them from a tech leader is so uncommon.