# Bibliography — Surviving AI

> **Source** · Alexander Unzicker, *Surviving AI: A Physicist's Guide to the Age of Superintelligence* (2026), bibliography, reproduced in full.
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The works cited throughout the book. Unzicker's own titles are marked → **own work**.

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- Bostrom, Nick: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014).
- Eagleman, David: Lifewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (2020).
- Goerzel, Ben: The Consciousness Explosion (2024)
- Harari, Yuval: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2013).
- Harari, Yuval: Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2017).
- Harari, Yuval: Nexus (2024).
- Heisenberg, Werner: Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations (1971).
- Kahneman, Daniel: Thinking, Fast and Slow (2012).
- Kissinger Henry and Schmidt Eric: Genesis (2025).
- Kurzweil, Ray: The Age of Intelligent Machines (1990).
- Kurzweil, Ray: The Singularity is Near (2005).
- Kurzweil, Ray: How to Create a Mind (2013).
- Kurzweil, Ray: The Singularity is Nearer (2025).
- Lem, Stanisław: Golem XIV (1973).
- von Neumann, John: The Computer and the Brain (1958).
- Penrose, Roger: The Emperor's New Mind (1989).
- Penrose, Roger: Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy (2016).
- Russell, Stuart: Human Compatible (2019)
- Sacks, Oliver: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985)
- Sapolsky, Robert: Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will (2023).
- Smolin, Lee: The Trouble with Physics (2006).
- Spitzer, Manfred: Artificial Intelligence (German, 2023).
- Springer, Sally P. and Deutsch, Georg: Left Brain, Right Brain (1981)
- Taleb, Nassim: The Black Swan (2007).
- Tegmark, Max: Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2017).
- Unzicker, Alexander: Psychophysik und formale Beschreibung visueller Klassifikationsleistungen (2001), dissertation, LMU Munich.  — **own work**
- Unzicker, Alexander: Bankrupting Physics (Macmillan 2013)  — **own work**
- Unzicker, Alexander: The Higgs Fake (2013).  — **own work**
- Unzicker, Alexander: Einstein's Lost Key (2015).  — **own work**
- Unzicker, Alexander: The Mathematical Reality (2020).  — **own work**
- Unzicker, Alexander: Make Physics Great Again (2023).  — **own work**
- Vester, Frederic: Thinking, Learning, Forgetting (1975).
- Walker, Matthew: Why We Sleep (2017).
- Watson, James: The Double Helix (1968).
- Woodley of Menie, Michael: At Our Wits End (2018).
- Yudkowsky, Eliezer: Creating Friendly AI (2001).
- Yudkowsky, Eliezer and Soares, Nate: If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies (2025).