From a Wall Street Journal story by Daniel Akst headlined “Five Best Books to Read About AI”:

The recent eruption of artificial intelligence through online tools such as ChatGPT has prompted a frenzy of speculation about its future and ours. It’s still early days, yet AI is already writing coherent articles, answering complex questions—and getting better all the time at performing those and other tasks.

Will it save the world? Will it eliminate all but the most menial jobs? Does it mean the end of human primacy on Earth, or even the end of humankind? What’s clear is that something important and unprecedented is happening. That’s one reason so many books have been written on the subject.