# aibookdb

> A curated directory of books about artificial intelligence. Discover titles by topic, difficulty, and vibe. Summaries are AI-generated and editorially reviewed.

Books are manually curated. Metadata and ratings come from Open Library. Each book page includes schema.org Book markup. The full index of indexable URLs is at https://aibookdb.com/sitemap.xml.

## Start here

- [Browse the catalog](https://aibookdb.com/browse): All approved titles with category, difficulty, and vibe filters
- [About](https://aibookdb.com/about): How curation and summaries work

## Collections

- [Fiction](https://aibookdb.com/browse?category=Fiction)
- [Non-fiction](https://aibookdb.com/browse?category=Non-fiction)
- [Study](https://aibookdb.com/browse?category=Study)
- [Featured](https://aibookdb.com/browse?featured=true)

## Featured

- [AI superpowers](https://aibookdb.com/book/ai-superpowers-kai-fu-lee): Kai-Fu Lee — Kai-Fu Lee on why China and the US will lead the AI revolution
- [Atlas of AI](https://aibookdb.com/book/atlas-of-ai-kate-crawford): Kate Crawford — Kate Crawford maps AI's hidden infrastructure and its human costs.
- [Empire of AI](https://aibookdb.com/book/empire-of-ai-karen-hao): Karen Hao — Karen Hao's investigation into OpenAI's rise, ambitions, and the tensions shaping AI's future.
- [Exhalation](https://aibookdb.com/book/exhalation-ted-chiang): Ted Chiang — Ted Chiang's philosophical stories exploring consciousness, time, and the nature of existence.
- [Gödel, Escher, Bach](https://aibookdb.com/book/g-del-escher-bach-douglas-r-hofstadter): Douglas R. Hofstadter — Hofstadter's masterpiece linking mathematics, art, and music to explore consciousness and self-reference.
- [Nexus](https://aibookdb.com/book/nexus-yuval-noah-harari): Yuval Noah Harari — Harari traces how information networks from Stone Age to AI have shaped human civilization, exploring our rush toward potential extinction.
- [Superintelligence](https://aibookdb.com/book/superintelligence-nick-bostrom): Nick Bostrom — Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom's influential analysis of AI's existential risks and the control problem when machines surpass human intelligence
- [The Alignment Problem](https://aibookdb.com/book/the-alignment-problem-brian-christian): Brian Christian — Brian Christian explores the gap between AI systems' intended purposes and their actual behavior—the alignment problem plaguing machine learning
- [The Coming Wave](https://aibookdb.com/book/the-coming-wave-mustafa-suleyman): Mustafa Suleyman — DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns of the 'containment problem' facing AI and synthetic biology—humanity's greatest challenge
- [The Dream Machine](https://aibookdb.com/book/the-dream-machine-m-mitchell-waldrop): M. Mitchell Waldrop — M. Mitchell Waldrop's epic history of how the internet and AI emerged from Cold War computing dreams.

## Optional

- [Full catalog (llms-full.txt)](https://aibookdb.com/llms-full.txt): Every approved book as an annotated link
- [Sitemap](https://aibookdb.com/sitemap.xml): Machine-readable URL list for crawlers
- [Privacy](https://aibookdb.com/privacy)