{"id":738,"date":"2025-11-17T15:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/?p=738"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:26:59","slug":"who-i-have-been-reading-and-planning-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2025\/11\/17\/who-i-have-been-reading-and-planning-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Who I Have Been Reading and Planning to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Much of what I have read on AI or want to read I learn about from specific people and blogs that I&#8217;ve learned to trust. I thought I&#8217;d give them a shout out here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Library Society of the World, a loose cohort of libraryland folks, has been together online since 2007. I&#8217;ve learned so much from them over the years; they have been absolutely essential to me since day one. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/mokum.place\/lsw\">join us in the LSW at Mokum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an inveterate reader of blogs, I&#8217;d like to share the ones that have consistently fed me ideas and reading recommendations on the subject of AI:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.404media.co\/\">404 Media<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aarontay.substack.com\/\">Aaron Tay&#8217;s Musings about Librarianship<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mikecaulfield.substack.com\/\">The End(s) of Argument<\/a> (Mike Caulfield trying out AI tools for evaluating claims in online sources)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/category\/artificial-intelligence\">Futurism<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/generatingfail\">Generating Fail<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inkdroid.org\/\">inkdroid <\/a>(Ed Summers; especially his Weekly Bookmarks posts)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/librarian.aedileworks.com\/\">Librarian of Things<\/a> (Mita Williams)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/garymarcus.substack.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/garymarcus.substack.com\/\">Marcus on AI<\/a> (Gary Marcus)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com\/\">Second Breakfast <\/a>(Audrey Watters&#8217;s posts are so essential that I pay to subscribe to them)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I agreed in September to teach the course again, I&#8217;ve been playing catch up with all the books that have come out since I last taught and trying to go back to ones I didn&#8217;t know about when I first taught the class. Here are the ones I&#8217;ve read this fall:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bender, Emily M., and Alex Hanna.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/en\/title\/1517506274\"><em>The AI Con : How to Fight Big Tech\u2019s Hype and Create the Future We Want<\/em>.<\/a> First edition, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Franklin, Ursula M.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/en\/title\/44619531\"><em>The Real World of Technology<\/em>.<\/a> Revised edition, Anansi, 1999.. First learned about this book a long time ago <a href=\"https:\/\/inkdroid.org\/2016\/08\/05\/real-world-of-technology\/\">from Ed Summers<\/a> but didn&#8217;t read it until this year. While she doesn&#8217;t specifically cover AI, this work has deepened my understanding of the social aspects of technological change.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>McQuillan, Dan.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/en\/title\/1328026349\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/en\/title\/1328026349\"><em>Resisting AI : An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence<\/em>.<\/a> Bristol University Press, 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Narayanan, Arvind, and Sayash Kapoor.\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/en\/title\/1427707645\">AI Snake Oil : What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can\u2019t, and How to Tell the Difference<\/a><\/em>. Princeton University Press, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Susskind, Richard.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/en\/title\/1504515901\"><em>How to Think About AI : A Guide for the Perplexed<\/em>. <\/a>Oxford University Press, 2025.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Winner, Langdon.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/en\/title\/12161949\"><em>The Whale and the Reactor : A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology<\/em>.<\/a> University of Chicago Press, 1986. Also not on the subject of AI but rather a useful book to deepen my understanding of socio-technical systems. Includes the often anthologized and cited chapter, &#8220;Do Artifacts Have Politics.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m currently half way through this book and am appreciating the author&#8217;s expertise as a linguist for her analysis of the impact of generative AI:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Baron, Naomi S.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/en\/title\/1373011834\"><em>Who Wrote This? : How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing<\/em>.<\/a> Stanford University Press, 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to read a few more by the start of my class next January:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Warner, John.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/en\/title\/1437986820\"><em>More than Words : How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI<\/em>.<\/a> First edition, Basic Books, 2025. I&#8217;ve been reading his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/opinion\/columns\/just-visiting\">pieces on college writing instruction in Inside Higher Ed<\/a> for years and think this would be a good book to follow Naomi Baron&#8217;s.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hao, Karen.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/search.worldcat.org\/en\/title\/1527077784\"><em>Empire of AI Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI<\/em>.<\/a> Penguin Press, 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also trying to read more about socio-technical analysis, particularly as it relates to ICTs, and have been focusing my efforts on journal articles and book chapters. I&#8217;ll see if I have enough for a roundup of sources in a future blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of what I have read on AI or want to read I learn about from specific people and blogs that I&#8217;ve learned to trust. I thought I&#8217;d give them a shout out here. The Library Society of the World, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2025\/11\/17\/who-i-have-been-reading-and-planning-to-read\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}