All books on this list are good and worth reading. The symbols below highlight standouts:

SYMBOLOGY:
💎: Gem
👌: Very good
🌶️: Extra points for being Latin American
🎓: Highly technical / academic read

❤️ Books About AI Ethics #

• 👌 Future Proof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation – Kevin Roose
• 💎 Weapons of Math Destruction – Cathy O’Neil
• Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI – Paul R. Daugherty & H. James Wilson
• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans – Melanie Mitchell
• The Industries of the Future – Alec Ross
• Newsmakers: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism – Francesco Marconi

📈 Books About Statistics #

• 💎 The Art of Statistics – David Spiegelhalter
• 👌🎓 A Student’s Guide to Bayesian Statistics – Ben Lambert
• 👌 Storytelling with Data – Cole Nussbaumer Knafli
• 👌 Factfulness – Hans Rosling
• Making Numbers Count – Chip Heath & Karla Starr

🎲 Books About Uncertainty #

• 💎 Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• 💎 Noise – Daniel Kahneman
• 👌 The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Art of Uncertainty – David Spiegelhalter
• On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything – Nate Silver

🤖 Books About Machine Learning / AI #

• 💎🎓 Applied Predictive Modeling – Max Kuhn
• 👌 Feature Engineering and Selection – Max Kuhn
• 💎🎓 Machine Learning: A First Course for Engineers and Scientists
  – Lindholm, Wahlström, Lindsten, Schön
• 💎🎓 Mathematics for Machine Learning – Aldo Faisal & Marc Peter Deisenroth
• The Master Algorithm – Pedro Domingos
• 💎 The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence – Sebastian Mallaby

📚 More Great Books #

• 💎 How to Be a Stoic: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life – Massimo Pigliucci
• 💎 Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic – Inger N.I. Kuin
• The Gene: An Intimate History – Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann – Ananyo Bhattacharya
• 🌶️ Anything by Gabriel García Márquez
• 💎🌶️ The Maniac – Benjamin Labatut
• 💎 The Man Who Solved the Market – Gregory Zuckerman
• 💎🎓 Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• 👌 Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
• Superforecasting – Philip E. Tetlock
• 👌 Slow Productivity – Cal Newport
• The Code Breaker – Walter Isaacson
• 💎 The Emperor of All Maladies – Siddhartha Mukherjee
• 👌 The Idea Factory – Jon Gertner
• Hit Refresh – Satya Nadella
• AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee
• Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer
• 👌 Shoe Dog – Phil Knight