Books and lecture series relevant to AI governance?

Thanks! In addition to the books in your authoritarianism reading list, I'd suggest two from this (partly long-term-oriented) course on AI governance:

• The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World, Anu Bradford (2020)
  • On how EU regulations sometimes become international standards (which makes them relevant to US/China-based AI developers)
• Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, Paul Scharre (2018)
  • On what factors influence whether/how new weapons are deployed in war (which seems relevant to how/when/which military decisions will be delegated to AI systems--delegations which may pose significant long-term risks)
  • The course recommended the introduction, Part VI, and chapters 3, 16, and 18

Also:

• These histories of institutional disasters and near-disasters
  • Edit: see footnote 1

Here are some relevant books from my ranked list of all EA-relevant (audio)books I've read, along with a little bit of commentary on them.

• The Precipice, by Ord, 2020
  • See here for a list of things I've written that summarise, comment on, or take inspiration from parts of The Precipice.
  • I recommend reading the ebook or physical book rather than audiobook, because the footnotes contain a lot of good content and aren't included in the audiobook
  • Superintelligence may have influenced me more, but that’s just due to the fact that I read it very soon after getting into EA, whereas I read The Precipice after already learning a lot. I’d now recommend The Precipice first.
• Superintelligence, by Bostrom, 2014
• The Alignment Problem, by Christian, 2020
  • This might be better than Superintelligence and Human-Compatible as an introduction to the topic of AI risk. It also seemed to me to be a surprisingly good introduction to the history of AI, how AI works, etc.
  • But I'm not sure this'll be very useful for people who've already read/listened to a decent amount (e.g., the equivalent of 4 books) about those topics.
  • This is more relevant to technical AI safety than to AI governance (though obviously the former is relevant to the latter anyway).
• Human-Compatible, by Russell, 2019
  • See also this interesting Slate Star Codex review
• The Strategy of Conflict, by Schelling, 1960
  • See here for my notes on this book, and here for some more thoughts on this and other nuclear-risk-related books.
  • This is available as an audiobook, but a few Audible reviewers suggest using the physical book due to the book's use of equations and graphs. So I downloaded this free PDF into my iPad's Kindle app.
• Destined for War, by Allison, 2017
  • See here for some thoughts on this and other nuclear-risk-related books, and here for some thoughts on this and other China-related books.
• The Better Angels of Our Nature, by Pinker, 2011
  • See here for some thoughts on this and other nuclear-risk-related books.
• Rationality: From AI to Zombies, by Yudkowsky, 2006-2009
  • I.e., “the sequences”
• Age of Ambition, by Osnos, 2014
  • See here for some thoughts on this and other China-related books.
     

The New Fire by Andrew Imbrie & Ben Buchanan

• This will soon be available as an audiobook
  • I haven't read it yet but plan to as soon as it comes out as an audiobook
• The authors have worked at CSET and have written other things I found useful
• Someone whose AI-gov-related judgement & knowledge I respect told me this is probably an especially good book to read for people who want an intro to the intersection of AI and national security / geopolitics (although it's not written from an EA/longtermist/x-risk perspective)
• The description from audiobooks.com is:
  • "Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the modern world. It is ubiquitous-in our homes and offices, in the present and most certainly in the future. Today, we encounter AI as our distant ancestors once encountered fire. If we manage AI well, it will become a force for good, lighting the way to many transformative inventions. If we deploy it thoughtlessly, it will advance beyond our control. If we wield it for destruction, it will fan the flames of a new kind of war, one that holds democracy in the balance. As AI policy experts Ben Buchanan and Andrew Imbrie show in The New Fire, few choices are more urgent-or more fascinating-than how we harness this technology and for what purpose.
    
    The new fire has three sparks: data, algorithms, and computing power. These components fuel viral disinformation campaigns, new hacking tools, and military weapons that once seemed like science fiction. To autocrats, AI offers the prospect of centralized control at home and asymmetric advantages in combat. It is easy to assume that democracies, bound by ethical constraints and disjointed in their approach, will be unable to keep up. But such a dystopia is hardly preordained. Combining an incisive understanding of technology with shrewd geopolitical analysis, Buchanan and Imbrie show how AI can work for democracy. With the right approach, technology need not favor tyranny."

Thanks a lot for compiling this, I'm thinking about switching my career into AI governance and the lists in your Google Doc seem super useful!