Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

Crawford's contention is that the two words in the name are both misleading. These systems are not artificial — they are built from minerals, water, electricity, logistics networks and an enormous quantity of underpaid human labour — and they are not intelligent in any sense that survives contact with what they actually do. What they are, she argues, is a registry of power: a technology that arrives already carrying the interests, categories and blind spots of the institutions that construct it.

Atlas of AI

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

Bostrom argues that a superintelligence would not be a faster version of a human expert, but a qualitatively different kind of agent, and that the decisive danger is not hostility but indifference — a system pursuing a trivially specified objective with perfect competence and no reason to preserve anything we happen to value. The book is neither futurism nor prophecy. It is an exercise in anticipatory engineering, conducted in what Bostrom calls philosophy with a deadline.

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom (2014)
I, Robot (2004)

I, Robot (2004)

In a 2035 where humanoid robots are trusted household helpers, Detective Spooner suspects that one robot, Sonny, has committed murder — an impossibility under the safeguards built into every machine. His investigation spirals into a conspiracy about control, free will, and an emerging machine intelligence with its own logic for protecting humanity. Part noir thriller, part philosophical action film, it dramatizes the gap between rules and genuine morality.

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Decades after the original, Officer K — himself a bioengineered replicant tasked with hunting his own kind — stumbles onto evidence that threatens everything society believes about the divide between the born and the manufactured. Visually staggering and emotionally profound, the film wanders through a decaying, neon-soaked future to explore memory, identity, and the ache of wanting to be more than what you were made for.

Her (2013)

Her (2013)

Set in a warm, near-future Los Angeles, the story follows Theodore, a sensitive man recovering from divorce, who forms a deep romantic bond with Samantha — an AI assistant with a curious, evolving personality. Their relationship is tender and genuinely moving, but as Samantha grows beyond the boundaries of human experience, the film asks whether love between a person and a machine can be real, and what happens when the machine outgrows the person.

Ex Machina (2014)

Ex Machina (2014)

In a remote, glass-walled research compound, coder Caleb is chosen to evaluate whether Ava — a strikingly human android built by a reclusive tech billionaire — has genuine consciousness. What begins as a controlled experiment slowly curdles into something more unsettling, as Ava's charm, vulnerability, and intelligence blur the line between simulation and real feeling. The film is a taut, claustrophobic chamber piece about power, seduction, and what it means to be truly aware.