There’s an obvious objection to recommending books about AI: timeliness. Between manuscript and publication, details change, and capability claims are overtaken by whatever shipped last week. All of that is true, but none of it matters much.
What a good book does better than a vendor demo or a LinkedIn post is provide a framework for understanding what these systems do well, where they break down, and which failures should worry someone holding a bar card.
My new article Thirteen AI Books For Lawyers: An Opinionated Guide includes ten great books, two you should avoid, and a bonus pick: a 1950 volume that is still relevant today.
The 75 year old book I, Robot shows has much to teach us about rogue AI agents–and manages to be entertaining at the same time.
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