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Moral Tribes
The definitive book on dual-process moral psychology and its implications for resolving moral disagreements between communities.
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Brave New Words
How AI will revolutionize education — from the founder of Khan Academy. Introduces Khanmigo and argues for AI as enhancing human potential.
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Co-Intelligence
NYT bestseller on living and working with AI. Treats AI as co-worker, co-teacher, and coach rather than tool or threat.
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The Coming Wave
Technology, power, and the greatest dilemma of the 21st century. Essential on AI containment and governance.
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The Singularity is Nearer
Updated predictions on the convergence of human and artificial intelligence. Argues we are entering exponential change.
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The AI Mirror
How to reclaim our humanity in an age of machine thinking. Argues AI lacks practical wisdom (phrónēsis).
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The Anxious Generation
#1 NYT bestseller arguing smartphones and social media have 'rewired' childhood. Catalyzed legislation across multiple countries.
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AI for Educators
Practical guide to using AI in the classroom, including remixing student work and building engagement.
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Productive Failure
The science of learning from struggle. Demonstrates why carefully designed failure produces deeper understanding.
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Should Robots Replace Teachers?
The template for distinguishing descriptive from normative claims about AI in education. Praised by Frank Pasquale.
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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Frames AI as a new form of agency, not intelligence. Education cultivates human agency — AI cannot replace it.
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AI Ethics
Accessible introduction to AI ethics covering bias, responsibility, and governance. MIT Press Essential Knowledge series.
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Why AI Undermines Democracy
Addresses power and governance dimensions of AI in democratic societies. Relevant to educational governance debates.
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Experience and Education
Foundational work arguing education is life itself, not preparation for it. Essential context for The Shortcut thought experiment.
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Democracy and Education
The comprehensive vision: education as a social process, growth as the aim, learning through active engagement.
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Contains the Experience Machine thought experiment — would you plug into a machine simulating a perfect life?
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Nicomachean Ethics
Book II on habituation and virtue. 'We learn by doing them — men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre.'
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Moral Tribes
The definitive book on dual-process moral psychology. Greene's vision of utilitarianism as 'deep pragmatism' for a diverse world.
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Technology and the Virtues
Applies Aristotelian, Confucian, and Buddhist virtue traditions to technology ethics. Predecessor to The AI Mirror.
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The Life You Can Save
Effective altruism and utilitarian ethics — the philosophical framework Greene draws on for his normative conclusions.
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