AI Reading List: News
Below is a portion of my informal list of readings related to Artificial Intelligence (AI). This started out as a very short list created for use in conjunction with an academic presentation and has now grown much larger. Please let me know if you have any corrections, additions, suggestions, etc. It is very idiosyncratic and not meant to be comprehensive. Please feel free to share with others.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Reading List, by Philip Rubin
News:
Cade Metz. Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive. Called Project Prometheus, the company is focusing on artificial intelligence for the engineering and manufacturing of computers, automobiles and spacecraft. The New York Times, Nov. 17, 2025.
Jason Karaian and Joe Rennison. China’s A.I. Advances Spook Big Tech Investors on Wall Street. The New York Times, Jan. 27, 2025.
Metz and Meaghan Tobin. How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With Silicon Valley Giants. The New York Times, Jan. 23, 2025.
Joshua Rothman. Why the Godfather of A.I. Fears What He’s Built. The New Yorker, Nov. 13, 2023.
Jaron Lanier. There Is No A.I. There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it. The New Yorker, April 20, 2023.
Cecilia Kang and Adam Satariano. As A.I. Booms, Lawmakers Struggle to Understand the Technology. The New York Times, Mar. 3, 2023.
Sophie Haigney. AI’s Best Trick Yet Is Showering Us With Attention. The New York Times Magazine, Jan. 11, 2023.
David Marchese. An A.I. Pioneer on What We Should Really Fear. The New York Times Magazine, Dec. 21, 2022.
Cade Metz. How the Collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Has Disrupted A.I. The New York Times, Dec. 1, 2022.
Gil Press. AI Is A Mirror, Not A Master, Says Tim O’Reilly. Forbes, Nov. 28, 2022.
Eamon Javers. How Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt helped write A.I. laws in Washington without publicly disclosing investments in A.I. startups. CNBC.com. Oct. 24, 2022.
Nico Grant and Cade Metz. Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient. The New York Times, June 12, 2022.
Jonathan Chadwick. ‘The Game is Over!’ Google’s DeepMind says it is close to achieving ‘human-level’ artificial intelligence – but it still needs to be scaled up. DailyMail.com, May 18, 2022.
Daisuke Wakabayashi and Cade Metz. Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord. New York Times, May 2, 2022.
Tom Simonite. What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru. Wired, June 8, 2021.
Wikipedia. Artificial Intelligence.
Wikipedia. Deep learning.
Wikipedia. Ethics of artificial intelligence.
Wikipedia. Machine learning.
Wikipedia. Neural network.