The Alignment Problem
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
★★★★★Read
The clearest bridge between technical safety research and its human stakes.
Reading
Books shaping how I think about technology, governance, security, leadership, and society.
Atlas of AI
Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford
★★★★★Read
AI as an extractive industry — uncomfortable and useful.
Prediction Machines
Prediction Machines
Agrawal, Gans & Goldfarb
★★★★★Read
Sandworm
Sandworm
Andy Greenberg
★★★★★Read
Required reading on what state-grade cyber conflict actually looks like.
The Cuckoo's Egg
The Cuckoo's Egg
Clifford Stoll
★★★★★Read
Decades old and still the best incident-response narrative ever written.
Click Here to Kill Everybody
Click Here to Kill Everybody
Bruce Schneier
★★★★★Read
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
★★★★★Read
Long, but the vocabulary it established is now indispensable.
Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State
James C. Scott
★★★★★Read
Every governance framework should be tested against this book.
The Checklist Manifesto
The Checklist Manifesto
Atul Gawande
★★★★★Read
Deceptively simple; the best argument for lightweight controls.
Turn the Ship Around!
Turn the Ship Around!
L. David Marquet
★★★★★Reading
The Craft of Research
The Craft of Research
Booth, Colomb & Williams
★★★★★Read
The book I recommend to every new postgraduate researcher.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann
★★★★★Reading
Reading with distributed learning systems in mind.