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Core Texts on AI & Systems

Core Texts on AI & Systems

  • Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans – Melanie Mitchell
  • Human Compatible – Stuart Russell
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff
  • The Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge (Seminal work on Complex Systems)
  • The Psychology of Computer Programming – Gerald Weinberg (Seminal work on the human factors in technical systems)
  • Managing the Software Process – Watts Humphrey (Foundational for disciplined collaboration frameworks)

Philosophical & Cognitive Foundations

  • Gödel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstadter (Interplay of formal systems, consciousness, and creativity)
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman (Dual-process theory and cognitive biases)
  • The Master and His Emissary – Iain McGilchrist (Hemispheric cognition and its implications for design)
  • Psychological Types – Carl Jung (Archetypes and the structure of human cognition)
  • Gifts Differing – Isabel Myers Briggs (Personality typology in collaborative contexts)

Systems, Myth, and Meaning

  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell (Narrative structures in human-AI interaction)
  • Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu (Non-dualistic approaches to complexity)
  • Conjoint Family Therapy – Virginia Satir (Systems theory applied to relational dynamics)
  • The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien (World-building as a metaphor for ethical system design)