A running list of interesting books, research papers, and essays that I’ve enjoyed consuming.

Books

  • Klara and the Sun, by Haruki Murakami

  • The Alignment Problem, by Brian Christian

  • Simulacra and Simulation, by Jean Baudrillard

  • Why Privacy Matters, by Neil Richards

  • A Hacker’s Mind, Bruce Schneier

  • Simulation by Nick Bostrum

  • The Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin

  • Exhalation, by Ted Chiang

  • Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

  • Statistical Evidence: A Likelihood Paradigm, by Richard Royall

  • The Exponential Age, by Azeem Azhar

  • The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, by Daniel Yergin

  • Prisoners of Geography, by Tim Marshall

Research and Essays

  • Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Product Innovation, by Aidan Toner-Rodgers

  • Attention is all you need, by Ashish Veswani et al.

  • Risk thresholds for frontier AI, by Leonie Koessler et al.

  • Measuring massive multi-task language understanding, by Dan Hendrycks et al.

  • Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models, by Jason Wei et al.

  • Evolving AI risk management, by Ravi Dotan et al.

  • Unique in the crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility, by Yves-Alexandre Montjoye et al.

  • Choice engines and paternalistic AI, by Cass R. Sunstein

  • Machines of Loving Grace, by Dario Amodei

  • Situational Awareness, by Leopold Aschenbrenner