Matt Miller - the guy who brought you "Ditch That Textbook" - has made a couple books on AI (as well as other education-related topics). This is the only one I've read so far.

This is a great book, especially for those who recognize the importance of AI literacy in education but don't know how to start. The emphasis in the book is in the title - AI Literacy in Any Class (Amazon link here, but I'm not affiliated in any way). I marked the whole thing up as there's so many good lines for why AI needs to be taught in every class, at every level. This book emphasizes how this can happen with little bite-sized, in-the-moment educational experiences that anyone could do in any classroom. It even provides useful prompts you could put into AI to help not only teach you what makes good prompts, but to get more out of what you learned in each lesson.

Would I recommend this book to you? Absolutely - I don't know that I agree with the price of the book (I bought it early, and the price was $30), but the content was great.

The only issue I take with the book is that I don't believe enough people will take the initiative to teach these bite sized lessons to make enough impact on student's and their educational journey- there is a checklist of AI-literacy lessons that need to be taught and experiences that need to happen, and impromptu teaching opportunities are great, and they're needed, but they won't be enough. I believe that AI literacy needs to be something that districts need to require at every grade level in appropriate ways for that age group. If it's not explicitly planned to be taught, students will have an incomplete AI literacy education. I would have loved to have seen a final chapter that emphasizes the importance of explicitly taught AI literacy and a suggested plan for AI literacy lessons that should be taught at each grade level (and the important safety concepts to focus on). I also would have liked to have seen a list of the major AI issues educators need to focus on for AI literacy - some of them were present (such as privacy, bias, and hallucinations), but something like my AI Issues Key Points would have been great.

This book, by Karen Hao, was very intriguing... at least, at first. I was fascinated by the initial startup of OpenAI, but the book had, in my opinion, very little to do with AI's impact on education and far more to do with the social/political drama within OpenAI and between Sam Altman and everyone else. I borrowed the book at the recommendation of a coworker and after getting very far in a few weeks and then not hardly picking it back up in a couple months, I returned the book unfinished. In an attempt to finish the book, I borrowed the audiobook and couldn't pay enough attention - this was during a very busy time of the year and I had way too much on my plate, so this says more about me than about the quality of the book itself.

Would I recommend the book? I think the first few chapters were fascinating, but I didn't finish the last few chapters so I couldn't really say, but ultimately it just wasn't nearly as interesting to me and my focus on AI Literacy and AI's impact on Education as I wanted it to be, but that's not a good indicator for whether I'd suggest the book or not (especially since the book isn't aimed at AI literacy or AI Education). If you're into reading and AI, this might be a great book for you.