Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-04-02
Books mentioned on How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?
Ezra Klein discussed Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy and others, and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Ethan Mollick recommended The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J. Gordon, The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell, and Blindsight by Peter Watts.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Co-Intelligence
Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick is a book about navigating and leveraging generative artificial intelligence in daily life and work.
Discussed“he's also got a new book on the subject co-intelligence”
Where to get it
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East of Eden
East of Eden by John Steinbeck is a sprawling, multi-generational masterpiece that adapts the Cain and Abel story into twentieth-century California.
Discussed“when I was in school you could buy spark notes and you know they were these little like pamphlet sized descriptions of what's going on in waren peace or what's going on in East of Eden”
Where to get it
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War and Peace
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a sprawling Russian epic novel that chronicles elite society and military conflict during the Napoleonic era.
Discussed“when I was in school you could buy spark notes and you know they were these little like pamphlet sized descriptions of what's going on in waren peace or what's going on in East of Eden”
Where to get it
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a psychological masterpiece that explores the crushing guilt, moral torment, and eventual redemption of a destitute former student who commits a brutal murder in St.
Discussed“of shifting you of giving you the ideas and insights that reading crime and punishment or or East of Eden would do”
Where to get it
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth
The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert J.
Recommended“one of them is the rise and fall of American growth which is it's two things it's an argument about why we will never have the kind of growth that we did in the first part of the Industrial Revolution again”
Where to get it
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The Knowledge
The Knowledge by Lewis Dartnell is a practical and imaginative guide detailing how to rebuild human civilization from scratch using fundamental scientific and technological principles in the aftermath of an apocalyptic scenario.
Recommended“the second book I'd recommend is the knowledge by Darnell which is kind of a really interesting book it is ostensibly a um a survival guide”
Where to get it
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Blindsight
Blindsight by Peter Watts is a hard science fiction novel that explores themes of consciousness, intelligence, and humanity's first terrifying encounter with an alien species.
Recommended“I want to recommend a much more depressing book that's available for free uh which is Peter Watts's blindsight and it is not a fun book but it is a fascinating Thriller”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“and that's why the book's called co-intelligence”