Why am I passionate about this?

Since I was a little boy, I’ve been passionate about technology and its potential to help people. After 25 years working in high tech, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence with a career spanning Intel, Google DeepMind, and a few successful startups I co-founded, I’ve pivoted to helping people, particularly leaders, understand how AI will transform business, education, and society, and how they can use AI to create new value and solve problems for people. AI is about to change everything about everything, and these books will help readers understand what’s coming and prepare themselves for humanity’s journey into an age of abundant intelligence.


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The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s

By Steve Brown ,

Book cover of The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s

What is my book about?

This book was written to help business leaders understand how technology will reshape their businesses in the 2020s. It’s a…

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Book cover of The Future is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

Steve Brown Why I love this book

When Peter’s book was released the same month as mine, I was initially concerned it would be duplicative. As I eagerly read his book, I realized it was a companion piece to mine. We discuss many of the same topics, and examples in my book help to illustrate concepts in his and vice versa.

If you enjoyed my book, you’ll love this.

By Peter H. Diamandis , Steven Kotler ,

Why should I read it?

2 authors picked The Future is Faster Than You Think as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Abundance and Bold comes a practical playbook for technological convergence in our modern era.

In their book Abundance, bestselling authors and futurists Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler tackled grand global challenges, such as poverty, hunger, and energy. Then, in Bold, they chronicled the use of exponential technologies that allowed the emergence of powerful new entrepreneurs. Now the bestselling authors are back with The Future Is Faster Than You Think, a blueprint for how our world will change in response to the next ten years of rapid technological disruption.

Technology is accelerating far…


Book cover of Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI

Steve Brown Why I love this book

This was a brave and interesting project that yielded a fascinating book. Reed Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and a storied tech investor, co-wrote the book with GPT-4.

In doing so, he perfectly illustrates the book’s central premise: AI will amplify human capabilities. As a bonus, his book is now available for free online.

By Reid Hoffman ,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked Impromptu as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERImpromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI, written by Reid Hoffman with GPT-4, takes readers on a travelog of the future – exploring how AI, and especially Large Language Models like GPT-4, can elevate humanity across key areas like education, business, and creativity.But, it's not just a book, it's a conversation. In a first, Hoffman doesn’t just write about GPT-4; he interacts and writes with GPT-4, letting readers see the technology’s capabilities — its strengths and limitations alike. Using GPT-4 as his “author’s co-pilot,” Hoffman paints an intriguing, challenging, and often entertaining picture of what’s possible: where…


Book cover of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Steve Brown Why I love this book

This book invites the reader to consider whether AI is a new form of life, how it differs from other forms of life, and what might come next.

Anyone who wants to expand their thinking on AI's future potential and what it will mean for humanity should pick up a copy.

By Max Tegmark ,

Why should I read it?

7 authors picked Life 3.0 as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

'This is the most important conversation of our time, and Tegmark's thought-provoking book will help you join it' Stephen Hawking

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR
SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2018

AI is the future - but what will that future look like? Will superhuman intelligence be our slave, or become our god?

Taking us to the heart of the latest thinking about AI, Max Tegmark, the MIT professor whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial, separates myths from reality, utopias from dystopias, to…


Book cover of The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Steve Brown Why I love this book

While Mustafa and I didn’t work together at DeepMind, I believe Suleyman’s book has become a seminal read for anyone interested in the future of AI. Suleyman highlights the central dilemma of whether to embrace AI for all its potential benefits or to fight it tooth and nail to keep humanity safe.

By Mustafa Suleyman , Michael Bhaskar ,

Why should I read it?

6 authors picked The Coming Wave as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

*An Economist, Financial Times, Guardian, Prospect and Sunday Times Book of the Year*
Shortlisted for the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year

This is the only book you need to understand our new world - from the ultimate AI insider, the CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind.

'Important' YUVAL NOAH HARARI
'Excellent' BILL GATES
'Astonishing' STEPHEN FRY
'Stunning' RORY STEWART

Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. In a world of quantum computers, robot assistants and abundant energy, they will organise your life, operate your business, and run government services.

None of…


Book cover of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Steve Brown Why I love this book

Stuart Russell is one of the best communicators of our time, and this collaboration with Peter Norvig is the bible of AI. In its fourth edition, this book covers everything you need to know about classic AI, also known as predictive or discriminative AI.

If you want to use AI to optimize business processes, inventory levels, pricing, risk profiles, segment markets, build recommendation engines, or do any of the hard work of running a business, this is the book for you. Perhaps the fifth edition will include generative AI, but this book is still great without that.

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The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s

By Steve Brown ,

Book cover of The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in the 2020s

What is my book about?

This book was written to help business leaders understand how technology will reshape their businesses in the 2020s. It’s a natural extension of my role as a global keynote speaker and AI futurist—helping leaders to understand new technology and figure out what to do next. Using many examples and easy-to-understand terms, it explores six technologies (AI, blockchain, the Internet of Things, robotics, next-generation networks, and virtual, augmented, and mixed reality) and the opportunities they will present to finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, construction, real estate, and other industries.

I wanted to write a how-to guide for leaders, so I wrote the book with a ten-year time horizon. Even though it was released in 2020, it's still relevant today. I am also writing a follow-up book.

Book cover of The Future is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives
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Book cover of Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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