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24 alternatives to Machines of Loving Grace

The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Machines of Loving Grace launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   The Age of Spiritual Machines▲57

   AI and achieving the singularity

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Humans Need Not Apply▲56

   A new book on the future of work in the age of robots

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   The Age of Em▲61

   Work, love and life when robots rule the Earth

   2016 · ageofem.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Metaskills▲61

   Five Talents for the Robotic Age

   2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Surviving AI▲59

   The promise and peril of artificial intelligence

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Gödel, Escher, Bach▲60

   A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines

   2016 · openlibrary.org · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Man V. Nature▲148

   Stories that illuminate the complexity of human behavior

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Rise of the Machines▲61

   A Cybernetic History 1st Edition

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Natural-Born Cyborgs▲57

   Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism▲56

    How machines effect humans in our hyperconnected world

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Life 3.0▲92

    Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Sapiens▲185

    A brief history of humankind

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Rise of the Robots▲67

    Technology and the threat of a jobless future

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Robot Overlordz - 224: Conscientious Futures▲66

    Self-publishing, corporate sovereignty, and the future of AI

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    The Second Machine Age▲66

    Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant techno

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Designing Bots▲13

    Creating Conversational Experiences

    2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    What to Think About Machines That Think: ▲74

    Today's leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    I, Robot▲11

    Development of the robot through interlinked stories

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    What are conversational bots?▲102

    An introduction to and overview of AI-driven chatbots

    2016 · oreilly.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Ancillary Justice▲60

    An AI space opera with surprising emotional depth

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Design for Humanity▲74

    The past, present, and future of anthropomorphic design

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Humani: Jessie’s Story▲76

    A conversation-based narrative game

    2016 · messenger.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Moral Tribes▲56

    Emotion, reason, and the gap between us and them

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    AI Revolution▲70

    Guide to the AI revolution in a series of short essays

    2016 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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