Professor Keith Downing at IDI, NTNU listed some of his favorites:

 -“Rule of the Robots” by Martin Ford - and for those who really like this author, “Rise of the Robots”  is also excellent. Just a few years older but certainly not out of date.

-“Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans” by Melanie Mitchell - very nice book on what AI (specifically DL) can and CANNOT do.  Those of us who like a more well-rounded approach to AI like this one.  She’s just a great writer: interesting and easy to follow.

-“The Loop” by Jacob Ward - This is about how technology is changing us!!  Others in this genre are “The Shallows” and “The Glass Cage”, both by Nicholas Carr.  All three of these
are very good, IMHO.  The Loop is probably a little harder to follow than Carr’s 2 books, both of which are fantastic.  I just found the message in The Loop to be a little “newer”.

-Finally, for something a little different that puts all of this stuff in a longer historical perspective: “The Attention Merchants” by Timothy Wu . This is all about advertising from the 1800’s all the way up to our present screen-dominated world.  Tech geeks might find it boring to read all this history, but it really adds some nice context to what’s happening (to us) today and how these companies are more than happy to keep it going.