The AI Wealth Stack
5 Books That Predicted the 2026 Tech Revolution
Before GPT, before the chip wars, before the trillion-dollar AI race — these books saw it all coming. Hand-picked by the architects of the current AI revolution, this list maps the intellectual territory from Acemoglu's economic warnings to Bostrom's existential forecasts. If you want to understand where technology is going next, start where its builders started.
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The Thinking Machine
Stephen Witt · 2025
Recommended by Daron Acemoglu
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Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom · 2014
Recommended by Sam Altman
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The Worlds I See
Fei-Fei Li · 2023
Recommended by Fei-Fei Li
A memoir by the AI pioneer who created ImageNet and shaped modern computer vision.
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Chip War
Chris Miller · 2022
Recommended by Bill Ackman
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Abundance
Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson · 2025
Recommended by Bill Gates
A sharp, optimistic look at how America can rebuild its capacity to build housing, clean energy, and public goods.