The best-selling AI books of 2025 — essential reading for anyone looking to understand artificial intelligence, from insider accounts to practical guides.
Karen Hao
The most-reviewed AI book of 2025. Atlantic senior AI editor Karen Hao delivers a scathing, meticulously reported account of OpenAI's rise — exposing its boardroom intrigues, the departure from its founding mission, and the empire-like power it now wields over billions of lives.
Stephen Witt
FT Business Book of the Year 2025. New Yorker columnist Stephen Witt chronicles how Jensen Huang's Nvidia clawed its way from gaming-chip also-ran to the world's most valuable company — the indispensable engine powering the AI revolution.
Keach Hagey
Based on over 250 interviews, this authorized biography of Sam Altman traces his rise from a precocious Silicon Valley insider to the undisputed leader of the AI revolution — charting the dramatic 2023 firing, reinstatement, and what it all reveals about the man steering humanity's most consequential technology.
Ethan Mollick
A New York Times bestseller and Economist Best Book of the Year. Wharton professor Ethan Mollick provides the definitive practical guide to working alongside AI — challenging us to treat it as a co-worker, tutor, and coach, and showing why the people who engage now will shape the technology's future.
Christopher Summerfield
Oxford neuroscientist and Google DeepMind researcher Christopher Summerfield delivers an authoritative insider survey of Large Language Models — what they are, how they work, why they still hallucinate, and what their strangeness reveals about the nature of intelligence itself.
Mustafa Suleyman
Bill Gates' favourite book on AI. DeepMind co-founder and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman argues that AI and synthetic biology represent an unstoppable technological wave — and that containing it is the defining challenge of our era.
Reid Hoffman & Greg Beato
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman flips the AI doom narrative — arguing that when intelligence becomes abundant and essentially free, humans gain unprecedented agency to learn, create, and solve the problems that matter most to them.
Sangeet Paul Choudary
The highest-rated AI business book of 2025 on Amazon and Goodreads. Choudary argues that AI's deepest impact is not on individual jobs but on the entire architecture of industries — reshuffling who creates value, who captures it, and who gets left behind.
Adam Brotman & Andy Sack
A Harvard Business Review Press bestseller. Based on candid conversations with Sam Altman, Reid Hoffman, Mustafa Suleyman, and Bill Gates, this urgent playbook shows business leaders exactly how to embed an AI-first mindset before competitors leave them behind.
Brian Christian
Ranked the #1 book on artificial intelligence. A masterful blend of reporting and history, Brian Christian investigates everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems — and profiles the researchers racing to ensure machine learning reflects human values before it's too late.