Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI and Writing

By Sidney Dobrin

Published: 2023

AI and Writing is an introduction to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and its emergent role as a tool for academic, professional, civic, and personal writing. Sid Dobrin examines GenAI from two the conceptual and the applied. The conceptual approach addresses the function of GenAI and the ramifications of its use as a writing tool – especially the ethical, social, and material issues it raises. The applied approach offers guidance to assist readers in using GenAI responsibly and authentically. In consideration of the rapid evolution of GenAI and the many unsettled questions about its role, Dobrin leaves room for readers to adapt to shifting technological and institutional conventions. This book is intended for composition and writing-intensive courses, and for any readers with a general or professional interest in the role of GenAI in writing. While it is primarily designed for first-year writing courses, it’s also applicable to courses in advanced writing, professional writing, technical writing, business writing, and writing across the curriculum, as well as writing-intensive courses in other disciplines. In other words, it can be used in any course in which students are required to produce texts.

AI snake oil: what artificial intelligence can do, what it can't, and how to tell the difference

By Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor

Published: 2025

Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works, why it often doesn't, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil—products that don't work, and probably never will. While acknowledging the potential of some AI, such as ChatGPT, AI Snake Oil uncovers rampant misleading claims about the capabilities of AI and describes the serious harms AI is already causing in how it's being built, marketed, and used in areas such as education, medicine, hiring, banking, insurance, and criminal justice. The book explains the crucial differences between types of AI, why organizations are falling for AI snake oil, why AI can't fix social media, why AI isn't an existential risk, and why we should be far more worried about what people will do with AI than about anything AI will do on its own. The book also warns of the dangers of a world where AI continues to be controlled by largely unaccountable big tech companies.

The art of prompt engineering with ChatGPT: a hands-on guide

By Nathan Hunter

Published: 2023

The Art of Prompt Engineering is the book that will help you start using ChatGPT to its full potential, and stay up to date.

Are you a professional, looking to start using ChatGPT? Or have you experimented with it but it hasn’t lived up to the hype?

Whether you’re seeking more creativity in your work or trying to optimize your workflow, mastering prompt engineering will allow you to use AI like a pro.

This easy and friendly guide will help you quickly build skills to use ChatGPT for your personal and professional needs at a much higher level than most of the people around you. And you don’t need any prior knowledge or a computer science background to be ahead of the game!

Why this book?

The Art of Prompt Engineering will take you on a step-by-step journey to master ChatGPT in the easiest way imaginable. Nathan Hunter has trained tens of thousands of people across 30+ countries, has given 2 TEDx talks, and is the founder of ChatGPT Trainings where he leads GenAI enablement programs for companies across the globe.

This book will help you:

• Learn 5 core techniques and tools to write better prompts
• Learn 4 advanced prompt engineering tools to take your knowledge to the next level
• Discover how GPT-4 is a game-changer and become an early adopter
• Explore 9 in-depth use cases to understand how to apply these techniques and tools
• Consolidate your learning with multiple exercises for each technique and tool

Welcome to AI: a human guide to artificial intelligence

By David L. Shrier

Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution.

Published: 2024

In schools and universities AI technology has forced a reevaluation of the way students are taught and assessed. Meanwhile, ChatGPT has become a cultural phenomenon, reaching a hundred million users and attracting a reputed $1 trillion investor interest in its parent company, OpenAI.

The race to dominate the generative AI market is accelerating at breakneck speed, inspiring breathless headlines and immense public interest.

Welcome to AI provides a rare view into a frontier area of computer science that will change everything about how you live and work. Read this book and better understand how to succeed in the AI-enabled future.

Introduction to generative AI

By Numa Dhamani, Maggie Engler, & Sahar Massachi

Published: 2024

In Introduction to Generative AI , AI engineers Numa Dhamani and Maggie Engler reveal both the power and limitations of AI tools and explore their impact on society, the economy, and the law. Our expert authors share best practices for responsibly using LLMs, drawing on years of experience in machine learning, data security, and ethical AI. You’ll learn strategies for getting accurate and useful responses, techniques for integrating generative AI in your workflow, and even how to handle misuse and adversarial attacks.

 

As if human: ethics and artificial intelligence

By Nigel Shadbolt & Roger Hampson

Published: 2024

A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being
 
Every day we are confronted with ethical challenges arising from machine-mediated decision-making. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the decisions proportionate, equitable, transparent, and accountable? How do we harness technology to empower rather than oppress?
 
Nigel Shadbolt and Roger Hampson argue that we can avert a disastrous and amoral future by assessing artificial-intelligence decisions, products, and calls for action as if they came from a human being. The authors go beyond the headlines about rampant robots to apply established moral principles, setting out seven “proverbs” for shaping this
 
● A thing should say what it is and be what it says.
● Artificial intelligences should show respect for human beings.
● Artificial intelligences are ethical only if they embody the best human values.
● Artificial intelligences should be transparent and accountable to humans.
● Humans have a right to be judged by humans if they so wish.
● Decisions that affect a lot of humans should involve a lot of humans.
● The future of humanity must not be decided in private by vested interests.

MORAL AI: and how we get there

By Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnot-Armstrong & Vincent Conitzer

Published: 2025

Can computers understand morality? Can they respect privacy? And what can we do to make AI safe and fair?

The artificial intelligence revolution has begun. Today, there are self-driving cars on our streets, autonomous weapons in our armies, robot surgeons in our hospitals – and AI's presence in our lives will only increase. Some see this as the dawn of a new era in innovation and ease; others are alarmed by its destructive potential. But one thing is this is a technology like no other, one that raises profound questions about the very definitions of human intelligence and morality.

In Moral AI, world-renowned researchers in moral psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence – Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer – tackle these thorny issues head-on. Writing lucidly and calmly, they lay out the recent advances in this still nascent field, peeling away the exaggeration and misleading arguments. Instead, they offer clear examinations of the moral concerns at the heart of AI programs, from racial equity to personal privacy, fake news to autonomous weaponry. Ultimately, they argue that artificial intelligence can be built and used safely and ethically, but that its potential cannot be achieved without careful reflection on the values we wish to imbue it with. This is an essential primer for any thinking person.

Artificial intelligence & generative AI for beginners: the complete guide

By David M. Patel 

Published: 2023

Amazon bestselling author & AI Consultant David M. Patel is going to show you everything you need to know become an expert user of artificial intelligence & generative AI. He is going to lead you step-by-step to discovering the foundations of artificial intelligence, understand how generative models work and how to tap into the full power of AI tools like ChatGPT, DALL-E 3 and MidJourney to skyrocket your productivity and scale yourself exponentially.

Is artificial intelligence racist?: the ethics of AI and the future of humanity

By Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Published: 2023

How did racism creep into the algorithms that govern our daily lives, from banking and shopping, to job applications? Connecting the legacy of enlightenment racism to forms of discrimination in modern day algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, this volume examines what data feeds into AI technology - and how this data will shape the future of humanity. Delving into the narratives enveloping the development of AI systems, with a particular emphasis on "tech-giants" and the ideas of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam explains how and why technology aids and abets various forms of extremism, entrenches social hierarchies and discriminatory boundaries and how this will impact international security and human rights in the future.

The algorithm: how AI decided who gets hired, monitored, promoted, and fired and why we need to fight back now

By Hilke Schellmann

Published: 2024

Schellmann takes readers on a journalistic detective story, meeting job applicants and employees who have been subjected to these technologies, playing AI-based video games that companies use for hiring, and investigating algorithms that scan our online activity to construct personality profiles— including if we are prone to self -harm.  She convinces whistleblowers to share results of faulty AI -tools, and tests algorithms that analyze job candidates’ facial expressions and tools that predict from our voices if we are anxious or depressed.  Schellmann finds employees whose every keystrokes were tracked and AI that analyzes group discussions or even predicts when someone may leave a company. Her reporting reveals in detail how much employers already know about us and how little we know about the technologies that are used on us.

Robots and the people who love them: holding on to our humanity in an age of social robots

By Eve Herold

Published: 2024

If there’s one universal trait among humans, it’s our social nature. Having relationships with others is a hard-wired need that literally shapes us and the lives we lead. The craving to connect is universal, compelling, and frequently irresistible. This concept is central to Robots and the People Who Love Them. This book is about socially interactive robots and how they will transform friendship, work, home life, love, warfare, education, and nearly every nook and cranny of modern life. It is an exploration of how we, the most gregarious creatures in the food chain, could be changed by social robots. On the other hand, it questions how will we remain the same, and how will human nature express itself when confronted by a new class of beings created in our own image?

Drawing upon recent research in the development of social robots, including how people react to them, how in our minds the boundaries between the real and the unreal are routinely blurred when we interact with them, and how their feigned emotions evoke our real ones, science writer Eve Harold takes readers through the gamut of what it will be like to live with social robots and still hold onto our humanity. This is the perfect book for anyone interested in artificial intelligence, robotics, and what they mean for our future.

The AI mirror: how to reclaim our humanity in an age of machine thinking

By Shannon Vallor

Published: 2024

For many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines.

Yet rather than open new futures, today's powerful AI technologies reproduce the past. Forged from oceans of our data into immensely powerful but flawed mirrors, they reflect the same errors, biases, and failures of wisdom that we strive to escape. Our new digital mirrors point backward. They show only where the data say that we have already been, never where we might venture together for the first time.

To meet today's grave challenges to our species and our planet, we will need something new from AI, and from ourselves.

These strange new minds: how AI learned to talk and what it means

By Christopher Summerfield

Published: 2025

For many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines.

Superagency: what could possibly go right with our AI future

By Reid Hoffman & Greg Beato

Published: 2025

Superagency offers a roadmap for using AI inclusively and adaptively to improve our lives and create positive change. While acknowledging challenges like disinformation and potential job changes, the book focuses on AI's immense potential to increase individual agency and create better outcomes for society as a whole. Imagine AI tutors personalizing education for each child, researchers rapidly discovering cures for diseases like Alzheimer's and cancer, and AI advisors empowering people to navigate complex systems and achieve their goals. Hoffman and co-author, tech and culture writer Greg Beato envision a world where these possibilities, and many more, become a reality. Superagency challenges conventional fears, inviting us to view the future through a lens of opportunity, rather than fear. It's a call to action - to embrace AI with excitement and actively shape a world where human ingenuity and the power of AI combine to create something extraordinary.

Feeding the machine: the hidden human labor powering A.I.

By James Muldoon

Published: 2024

Silicon Valley has sold us the illusion that artificial intelligence is a frictionless technology that will bring wealth and prosperity to humanity. But hidden beneath this smooth surface lies the grim reality of a precarious global workforce of millions laboring under often appalling conditions to make A.I. possible. This book presents an urgent, riveting investigation of the intricate network that maintains this exploitative system, revealing the untold truth of A.I. Based on hundreds of interviews and thousands of hours of fieldwork over more than a decade, Feeding the Machine describes the lives of the workers deliberately concealed from view, and the power structures that determine their future. It gives voice to the people whom A.I. exploits, from accomplished writers and artists to the armies of data annotators, content moderators and warehouse workers, revealing how their dangerous, low-paid labor is connected to longer histories of gendered, racialized, and colonial exploitation. A.I. is an extraction machine that feeds off humanity's collective effort and intelligence, churning through ever-larger datasets to power its algorithms. This book is a call to arms that details what we need to do to fight for a more just digital future.

Co-intelligence: living and working with AI

By Ethan Mollick

Published: 2024

From Wharton professor and author of the popular One Useful Thing Substack newsletter Ethan Mollick comes the definitive playbook for working, learning, and living in the new age of AI The release of generative AI-from LLMs like ChatGPT to image generators like DALL-E-marks a new era. We have invented technologies that boost our physical capabilities and others that automate complex tasks, but never, until now, have we created a technology that can boost our intelligence-with an impact on work and life that researchers project will be greater than that of steam power or the internet. Mollick urges us not to turn away from AI, and instead to invite AI tools to the table. He demonstrates how AI can amplify our own capacities, acting in roles from brainstorming partner to cowriter to tutor to coach, and assesses its surprising, positive impact on business and organizations. Marshalling original research from workers and teams who are leading the rest of us in embracing and leveraging AI, Mollick cuts through the hype to make a frank and eye-opening case for the real value of AI tools. Moreover, Mollick argues that the long-term impact of AI will be different from what we expect, advantaging English majors and art history experts more than coders, and impacting knowledge workers more than blue-collar workers. Co-Intelligence shows what it means for individuals and for society to think together with smart machines, and why it's imperative that we all master that skill. Co-Intelligence challenges us to utilize AI's power without losing our identity, learn from it without being misled, and harness its gifts to create a better human future. Thought-provoking, optimistic, and lucid, Co-Intelligence reveals the promise and power of generative AI.