Recommended reading
All 38 books from the test's reading lists, A to Z. Each shows which positions it supports and which it challenges.
- Against Tech OligarchyJS Tan and Clarissa Redwine, 2026
Supports: Political-Economy Critic, Antitrust Advocate
Challenges: Accelerationist
- The Age of Surveillance CapitalismShoshana Zuboff, 2019
Supports: Political-Economy Critic, Antitrust Advocate
Challenges: Open-Access Accelerationist
- The AI ConEmily M. Bender and Alex Hanna, 2025
Supports: Resource Skeptic, Rollout Skeptic, Thoroughgoing Skeptic, Industry Skeptic, Hype Skeptic
Challenges: Safety-Minded Builder, Reluctant Accelerationist, Doomer
- AI Snake OilArvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, 2024
Supports: Industry Skeptic, Bubble Watcher, Normal Technologist
Challenges: Reluctant Accelerationist, Governance-Focused Doomer, Doomer, Worried Power User
- The Alignment ProblemBrian Christian, 2020
Supports: Safety-Minded Builder
- Artificial UnintelligenceMeredith Broussard, 2018
Supports: Capability Skeptic
- Atlas of AIKate Crawford, 2021
Supports: Resource Skeptic, Environmental Critic, Systemic Critic, Thoroughgoing Skeptic, Infrastructure Critic, Conflicted User
Challenges: Pragmatic User
- Blood in the MachineBrian Merchant, 2023
Supports: Rollout Skeptic, Neo-Luddite, Creators' Advocate
Challenges: Augmentationist
- Chip WarChris Miller, 2022
Supports: Geopolitical Hawk
Challenges: Infrastructure Critic, Open-Source Advocate
- Co-IntelligenceEthan Mollick, 2024
Supports: Accelerationist, Augmentationist, Open-Access Accelerationist, Pragmatic User
Challenges: Rollout Skeptic, Neo-Luddite, Authenticity Skeptic, Systemic Critic, Creators' Advocate, Hype Skeptic, Conflicted User, Abstainer
- Code DependentMadhumita Murgia, 2024
Supports: Conflicted User
- The Coming WaveMustafa Suleyman, 2023
Challenges: Resource Skeptic, Industry Skeptic
- The Curse of BignessTim Wu, 2018
Supports: Antitrust Advocate
- Deep UtopiaNick Bostrom, 2024
Supports: Post-Work Optimist, Open-Access Accelerationist
Challenges: Humanist Objector
- Digital MinimalismCal Newport, 2019
Supports: Abstainer
Challenges: Conflicted User
- Empire of AIKaren Hao, 2025
Supports: Environmental Critic, Systemic Critic, Infrastructure Critic, Open-Source Advocate
Challenges: Accelerationist, Geopolitical Hawk
- End Times FascismNaomi Klein and Astra Taylor, 2026
Supports: Systemic Critic, Infrastructure Critic
Challenges: Accelerationist, Geopolitical Hawk
- The Eye of the MasterMatteo Pasquinelli, 2023
Supports: Neo-Luddite, Systemic Critic, Political-Economy Critic
- Four BattlegroundsPaul Scharre, 2023
Supports: Geopolitical Hawk
Challenges: Environmental Critic, Thoroughgoing Skeptic, Political-Economy Critic, Infrastructure Critic, Bubble Watcher, Antitrust Advocate, Open-Source Advocate
- Human CompatibleStuart Russell, 2019
Supports: Safety-Minded Builder, Worried Power User
- If Anyone Builds It, Everyone DiesEliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, 2025
Supports: Governance-Focused Doomer, Doomer
Challenges: Accelerationist, Open-Access Accelerationist, Normal Technologist
- Irrational ExuberanceRobert J. Shiller, 2000
Supports: Bubble Watcher
- Life 3.0Max Tegmark, 2017
Supports: Post-Work Optimist
- The Mechanic and the LudditeJathan Sadowski, 2025
Supports: Rollout Skeptic, Neo-Luddite
Challenges: Post-Work Optimist
- More Everything ForeverAdam Becker, 2025
Supports: Hype Skeptic
Challenges: Geopolitical Hawk
- The Myth of Artificial IntelligenceErik J. Larson, 2021
Supports: Capability Skeptic
- Power and PredictionAjay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb, 2022
Supports: Augmentationist, Normal Technologist, Pragmatic User
Challenges: Abstainer
- Power and ProgressDaron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, 2023
Supports: Neo-Luddite, Political-Economy Critic
Challenges: Post-Work Optimist
- The PrecipiceToby Ord, 2020
Supports: Reluctant Accelerationist, Governance-Focused Doomer, Worried Power User
- The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AICory Doctorow, 2026
Supports: Rollout Skeptic, Industry Skeptic, Bubble Watcher, Hype Skeptic
Challenges: Augmentationist, Post-Work Optimist
- Robot-ProofVivienne Ming, 2026
Supports: Augmentationist, Humanist Objector
Challenges: Post-Work Optimist, Pragmatic User
- The ShallowsNicholas Carr, 2010
Supports: Authenticity Skeptic, Humanist Objector, Abstainer
Challenges: Augmentationist, Pragmatic User
- The Singularity Is NearerRay Kurzweil, 2024
Supports: Accelerationist
Challenges: Safety-Minded Builder, Resource Skeptic, Environmental Critic, Rollout Skeptic, Neo-Luddite, Authenticity Skeptic, Humanist Objector, Systemic Critic, Thoroughgoing Skeptic, Political-Economy Critic, Creators' Advocate, Industry Skeptic, Governance-Focused Doomer, Worried Power User, Bubble Watcher, Hype Skeptic, Capability Skeptic, Normal Technologist, Antitrust Advocate
- SuperintelligenceNick Bostrom, 2014
Supports: Reluctant Accelerationist, Doomer
Challenges: Capability Skeptic
- TechnofeudalismYanis Varoufakis, 2024
Supports: Open-Source Advocate
- The Value of a WhaleAdrienne Buller, 2022
Supports: Resource Skeptic, Environmental Critic, Infrastructure Critic
- What Is Intelligence?Blaise Agüera y Arcas, 2025
Supports: Accelerationist, Augmentationist
Challenges: Authenticity Skeptic, Hype Skeptic, Capability Skeptic
- You Are Not a GadgetJaron Lanier, 2010
Supports: Authenticity Skeptic, Humanist Objector, Creators' Advocate
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