I highly recommend The Big Nine!

This book is a call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. 

Nine big corporations in the U.S. and China. The American portion of the Big Nine—Amazon, Google, Apple, IBM, Microsoft and Facebook—have big ideas about how to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges, but they’re beholden to the whims of Wall Street and have only a transactional relationship with Washington.

Meanwhile, China’s portion—Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent—are very much tethered to Beijing and the demands of the Chinese Communist Party.

All of us are caught in the middle, as our data are mined and refined in service of building the future of AI.

In the first part, you’ll learn what AI is and the role the Big Nine have played in developing it.

In Part II, plausible futures over the next fifty years as AI advances with scenarios ranging from optimistic, pragmatic and catastrophic.

In Part III, tactical and strategic solutions are given.

“The future is an endless cycle. It neither begins at a finite point nor ends once something has been accomplished. Likewise, the fluidity of time—not chronological time, but how we experience technological change—must stay at the forefront of our thought processes whenever we’re planning for the future.”