Transcript for "The 4 Best Books to Prepare for AI"

Weber, Aristotle, Girard, Kripal

0. Introduction

These four books have helped me AI proof my career and life. And if you truly understand their insights, not only will you survive the imminent AI revolution, you’ll thrive. Now, people today are worried about AI and they’re worried about AI taking their jobs. But this first book is going to show you that the problem is actually a lot greater. That the right comparison to our current time isn’t dot com bubble, it’s not 2008. It’s Darwin, okay, which shook the faith of an entire civilization. It’s the industrial revolution which required two world wars to properly sort out. Now, the next three books will teach you where to spend your time right now in this moment in order to thrive in this radically new world order.

Now, I’ve spent the last few years interviewing some of the greatest philosophers, entrepreneurs, and AI researchers alive. And out of all the books I’ve read, it’s these three that have been the most important. And I’ve already made major life decisions based on their insights to AI proof my life and career. But these aren’t self-help books. These aren’t about the latest technical advances either. They’re works of philosophy, and one of which is thousands of years old. Because we need to rethink everything from the ground up, from first principles. And if you’re just stuck on learning how to prompt engineer, if you’re just stuck on following the latest fads on X, that’s the surface level. And you’re underestimating the size of the earthquake that is about to hit us by magnitudes.

Now, this first book by Max Weber will correct that error. Because it correctly frames AI not just as an economic challenge, but a religious threat to the dominant religion of our day, which is capitalism, work, success, achievement.