Want to learn more about AI Ethics? These books provide a solid foundation for entry into the AI ethics conversation.
We often get requests for recommended reading on AI ethics, especially since the launch of the Master in AI Ethics and Society. As such, our Master’s programme team have compiled a list of books for anyone seeking to further their understanding of the field. We present these recommendations below in alphabetical order (not ranked).
- Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new Jim code
Ruha Benjamin - Polity - AI: Its nature and future
Margaret Boden - Oxford University Press - AI ethics
Mark Coeckelbergh - MIT Press - The costs of connection – How data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism
Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias – Stanford University Press - Design justice - Community-led practices to build the worlds we need
Sasha Constanza-Chock – MIT Press - Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford - Yale University Press - Data feminism
Catherine D’Ignazio, & Lauren F. Klein - MIT Press - Automating inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor
Virginia Eubanks - St. Martin’s Press - AI superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the new world order
Kai-Fu Lee - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - Human compatible: Artificial intelligence and the problem of control
Stuart Russell – Penguin - Army of none: Autonomous weapons and the future of war
Paul Scharre - WW Norton & Company - A citizen’s guide to artificial intelligence
John Zerilli, et al. – MIT Press
Additional edited volumes
We also highly recommend these edited volumes as they're valuable compilations of multidisciplinary perspectives from leading thinkers in the field.
- The Oxford handbook of ethics of AI
Dubber, M. D., Pasquale, F., & Das, S. - Oxford University Press - Ethics of artificial intelligence
Matthew S. Liao – Oxford University Press - AI Narratives: A history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines
Stephen Cave, Kanta Dihal, & Sarah Dillon – Oxford University Press