Resources for the Law and Policy of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Recommended Literature
Ryan Abbott: The Reasonable Robot - Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Cambridge UP 2020
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Abdi Aidid & Benjamin Alarie: The Legal Singularity - How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Law Radically Better, Univ or Toronto Press, 2023
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Beena Ammanath: Trustworthy AI: A Business Guide for Navigating Trust and Ethics in AI, Wiley 2022
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Woodrow Barfield & Ugo Pagallo (eds.): Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence, Edward Elgar 2018
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Aaron Bastani: Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Verso 2019
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Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna: The AI Con - How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want, Harper 2025
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Max Bennett: A Brief History of Intelligence - Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs that Made Our Brains, Mariner Books 2023
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Reid Blackman: Ethical Machines: Your Concise Guide to Totally Unbiased, Transparent, and Respectful AI, Harvard Bus Rev Press 2022
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José Antonio Bowen & C. Edward Watson: Teaching with AI - A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2024
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Anu Bradford: Digital Empires - The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, Oxford UP 2023*
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Joy Buolamwini: Unmasking AI - My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines, Random House 2024
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Ian Bremmer & Mustafa Suleyman: The AI Power Paradox – Can States Learn to Govern Artificial Intelligence Before It’s Too Late?, Foreign Affairs Sept/Oct 2023, pp. 26-43
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Ross P. Buckley, Douglas W. Arner & Dirk A. Zetzsche: FinTech - Finance, Technology and Regulation, Cambridge Univ. Press 2024, with chapters on
Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Finance (pp. 95-113), and
Enabling a Balanced Proportional Approach to Innovation: Regulatory Sandboxes, Innovation Hubs, and Beyond (pp. 164-176)
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Brian Christian: The Alignment Problem - Machine Learning and Human Values, Norton & Co. 2020
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Mark Coecklebergh: AI Ethics, MIT Press 2020*
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James M. Cooper & Kashyap Kompella: Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers - A Short & Happy Guide, West Academic 2025
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Kate Crawford: Atlas of AI - Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, Yale Univ Press 2021*
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Bart Custers & Eduard Fosch-Villaronga (eds.): Law and Artificial Intelligence - Regulating AI and Applying AI in Legal Practice, Springer 2022
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Cynthia Cwik et al. (eds): Artificial Intelligence - Legal Issues, Policy, and Practical Strategies, ABA Publishing 2024*
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April G. Dawson: Artificial Intelligence and Academic Integrity, Aspen 2024*
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Simon Deakin & Christopher Markou (eds): Is Law Computable? Critical Perspectives on Law and Artificial Intelligence, Hart Publ. 2020
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Rahul Dodhia: AI for Social Good - Using Artificial Intelligence to Save the World, Wiley 2024*
1. A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence
2. AI Explained: A Non-Technical Guide
3. AI for Good
4. AI for Good: Pursuit of Scientific Knowledge
5. When Good AI Goes Bad
6. Putting Safeguards Around AI
7. Getting the Best Out of Your AI Team
8. The Future
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Markus Dubber et al. (eds): The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI, OUP 2020
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Michèle Flournoy: AI Is Already at War – How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform the Military, Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2023, pp. 56-69
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Urs Gasser & Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: Guardrails - Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI, Princeton UP 2024*
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Mo Gawdat: Scary Smart - The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World, Bluebird Books 2021*
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Keri Grieman: Law, Death, and Robots - The Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in High-Risk Civil Applications, Bloomsbury 2024
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Karen Hao: Empire of AI - Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's Open AI, Penguin 2025
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Yuval Noah Harari: Nexus - A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, Random House 2024
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Reid Hoffman & Greg Beato: Superagency - What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future, Authors Equity 2025*
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Emma Jones, Francine Ryan, Ann Thanaraj & Terry Wong: Digital Lawyering - Technology and Legal Practice in the 21st Century, Routledge 2022
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Michael Kearns & Aaron Roth: The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design, Oxford UP 2019
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Charles Kerrigan (ed.): Artificial Intelligence - Law and Regulation, Edward Elgar, 2nd ed. 2025
Erica Stanford: Autonomous AI: Who Is Responsible When AI Acts Autonomously and Things Go Wrong?
David V. Sanker: Practical Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI
Lisa McClory: Profiling and Prohibited Practices: A Summary of Legal Requirements for Automated Decision-
Making in the EU and UK
Emma Wright: The Role of Multilateralism in AI
F. Dario de Martino et al.: AI M&A: Current Trends and Unique Legal and Regulatory Considerations
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Salman Khan: Brave New Words - How AI Will Revolutionize Education and Why That’s a Good Thing, Viking 2024
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Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt & Daniel Huttenlocher: The Age of AI and Our Human Future, Little Brown 2021
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Henry A. Kissinger, Craig Mundie & Eric Schmidt: Genesis - Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit, Little Brown 2024*
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Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson: Abundance, Avid Reader Press 2025
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Ray Kurzweil: The Singularity Is Nearer – When We Merge with AI, Viking 2024
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Erik J. Larson: The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do, Belknap Press 2022
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Juan M. Lavista Ferres & William B. Weeks: AI for Good - Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health, Wiley 2024
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Kai-Fu Lee: AI Superpowers – China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, HarperCollins 2018
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Kai-Fu Lee & Chen Qiufan: AI 2041 - Ten Visions for Our Future, CrownCurrency 2024
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James Manyika & Michael Spence: The Coming AI Economic Revolution – Can Artificial Intelligence Reverse the Productivity Slowdown, Foreign Affairs Nov/Dec 2023, pp. 70-86
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Gary Marcus: Taming Silicon Valley - How We Can Ensure that AI Works for Us, MIT Press 2024*
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Andrew McAfee & Erik Brynjolfsson: Machine Platform Crowd - Harnessing Our Digital Future, Norton & Co. 2017*
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David Mhlanga: FinTech and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development, Palgrave 2023*
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Melanie Mitchell: Artificial Intelligence - A Guide for Thinking Humans, Picador 2019*
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Ethan Mollick: Co-Intelligence - Living and Working with AI, Penguin 2024
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Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor: AI Snake Oil - What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, Princeton UP 2024
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Sandra Navidi: Future IQ: Your Success Strategies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Navidi 2022
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K. Nikolskaia and V. Naumov: Artificial Intelligence in Law,,2020 International Multi-Conference on Industrial Engineering and Modern Technologies (FarEastCon), Vladivostok, Russia, 2020, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/FarEastCon50210.2020.9271095
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Cathy O'Neil: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, Crown Publ. 2017
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Jennifer Pahlka: [Re]Coding <America/> - Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better, Metropolitan Books 2023
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Jill Rhodes & Robert Litt: The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook, American Bar Association, 2nd ed 2022*
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Stuart Russel: Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control, Penguin 2020
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Marietje Schaake: The Tech Coup - How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley, Princeton UP 2024
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Paul Scharre, Army of None - Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War, W.W. Norton & Co. 2019
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Hilke Schellmann: The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now, Hachette Books 2024*
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Josh Simons: Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI, Princeton Univ Press 2023*
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Henrique Sousa Antunes et al. (eds): Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, Springer 2024*
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Mustafa Suleyman: The Coming Wave – Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma, Crown Publ. 2023
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Jamie Susskind: The Digital Republic - On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century, Pegasus Books 2022
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Max Tegmark: Life 3.0 – Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Vintage Books 2017
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Thomas Wischmeyer & Timo Rademacher (eds): Regulating Artificial Intelligence, Springer 2020
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Regulation
Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem: Artificial Intelligence as a Challenge for Law and Regulation, pp. 1-29
Nikolaus Marsch: Artificial Intelligence and the Fundamental Right to Data Protection: Opening the Door for
Technological Innovation and Innovative Protection, pp. 33-52
Christian Ernst: Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy: Self-Determination in the Age of Automated Systems,
Thomas Wischmeyer: Artificial Intelligence and Transparency: Opening the Black Box, pp. 75-101
Alexander Tischbirek: Artificial Intelligence and Discrimination: Discriminating Against Discriminatory Systems,
Jan-Erik Schirmer: Artificial Intelligence and Legal Personality: Introducing “Teilrechtsfähigkeit”: A Partial Legal
Status Made in Germany, pp. 123-142
Governance of and Through Artificial Intelligence
Christoph Krönke: Artificial Intelligence and Social Media, pp. 145-173
Gabriele Buchholtz: Artificial Intelligence and Legal Tech: Challenges to the Rule of Law, pp. 175-198
Yoan Hermstrüwer: Artificial Intelligence and Administrative Decisions Under Uncertainty, pp. 199-223
Timo Rademacher: Artificial Intelligence and Law Enforcement, pp. 225-254
Jakob Schemmel: Artificial Intelligence and the Financial Markets: Business as Usual?, pp. 255-276
Christian Djeffal: Artificial Intelligence and Public Governance: Normative Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence
in Government and Public Administration, pp. 277-293
Nadja Braun Binder: Artificial Intelligence and Taxation: Risk Management in Fully Automated Taxation Procedures,
pp. 295-306
Sarah Jabri: Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare: Products and Procedures, pp. 307-335
Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Doctors, Patients and Liabilities, pp. 337-360
Moritz Hennemann: Artificial Intelligence and Competition Law, pp. 361-388
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Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, Little, Brown & Co., coming on September 16, 2025*
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Georgios I. Zekos: Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Robo-Justice, Springer 2022
Part I: Present Regulation of Courts and Arbitration and Their Paradox
The Legal Basis of Courts and Arbitration
Constitution, Courts and Arbitration
Judges and Arbitrators as Law Makers
Courts' Engagement in Arbitration Under U.S., English, Belgian and Greek Law
AAI National Authority Management Arbitration
Part II: Courts and Arbitration in the Artificial Intelligence and Advanced AI Era
From AI Towards Advanced AI
From ADR to ODR
Courts and Arbitration Advancements
AI in Arbitration and Courts
Robo-Justice
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... and Websites
AI Business reports on Machine Learning (ML), neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), big data, automation, verticals, including IoT and robotics, responsible AI, companies in the markets, and more...
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AI News, quite possibly the #1 most useful website for general news and updates...
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AI Weekly and it's sister newsletter Essentials are free newsletters talking about general AI news, AI ethics, use cases, robotics, research, marketing, AI in healthcare, cybersecurity, business ventures, and other important topics.
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Global Legal Insights has a special section on "AI, Machine Learning & Big Data Laws and Regulations 2023"
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE ("eye triple E") claims to be "the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity." We cannot fact-check this claim but they are a non-profit and their website is pretty awesome, including frequent updates about AI.
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MIT Technology Review on Artificial Intelligence
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OpenAI was catapulted into the headlines when it released ChatGPT 3.5 open access in November 2022. It wants "to ensure that artificial general intelligence—AI systems that are generally smarter than humans—benefits all of humanity." While ChatGPT 3.5 has its limits, a modest US$20 per month will grant access to ChatGPT 4.0, which "can see, hear, and speak" and has all the latest data... we use it every day.
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Tableau.com "... is a visual analytics platform transforming the way we use data to solve problems—empowering people and organizations to make the most of their data.
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VentureBeat is focused on AI startups, investment opportunities, funding sources, product launches, and all things related to the business side of AI.
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