Happy Book Day: The Books YOU Can’t Afford To Ignore!

In honor of #BookDay, I assembled a list of books that I think no-one can afford to ignore. These books range across various topics from leadership and management to technology like crypto and artificial intelligence.

What have been your favorite books? Let me in comments or by DM’ing me.

Stephen Hawking: Brief Answers to the Big Questions

This book is the book I enjoyed the most in the last 12 months. It is not an AI book per se, but it is a thought-provoking and enlightening book. It is also a very quick and clear read, which frankly, I didn’t expect.

In this book, Hawking covers a wide range of topics. He attempts to answer if we should colonize space, encourages us to think about how we should shape the future and challenges readers about the existence of God or the presence of intelligent life in the Universe.

Each chapter is designed to be read by itself so you can quickly jump from one topic to the next in whatever order. Chapter 9 touches on the issue of AI and its title might give you chills: “Will Artificial Intelligence Outsmart Us?”

You’ll have to read the chapter to find out but let me give you some hints. Hawking does a great job setting up the contribution of humans to the field…