🤖🌍The Human-Centered Future of Work Resource Guide

The Books, Research, and Voices Behind My Work

Over the last few years, I’ve found myself increasingly drawn into conversations about AI, workplace culture, trust, governance, and the future of work. After many of my talks, people often ask me the same question:

“Where should I start learning more about this?”

So I decided to create this living resource guide, not as an academic bibliography, but as a collection of books, research, films, frameworks, podcasts, and thinkers that have genuinely shaped how I understand this moment we are all navigating together.

• Some of these resources are hopeful.

• Some are cautionary.

• Some challenge the dominant narratives around AI entirely.

But all of them, in different ways, ask a deeper question:

How do we build technological futures that remain deeply human-centered?

The future of work is not only being shaped by technology. It is being shaped by the values, systems, stories, and choices we normalize alongside it. I hope something here helps you think more deeply, ask better questions, and remain connected to your humanity as we navigate this next era together.

Books on AI Ethics, Power, and Society

• Ruha Benjamin — Race After Technology

  • https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology

• Karen Hao — Empire of AI

  • https://www.amazon.com/Empire-AI-Dreams-Nightmares-Altmans/dp/0593657500

• Kate Crawford — Atlas of AI

  • https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-AI-Kate-Crawford/dp/0300209576

• Safiya Umoja Noble — Algorithms of Oppression

  • https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/

• Shoshana Zuboff — The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

  • https://shoshanazuboff.com/book/about/

• Meredith Broussard — Artificial Unintelligence

  • https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537018/artificial-unintelligence/

• Cathy O’Neil — Weapons of Math Destruction

  • https://weaponsofmathdestructionbook.com/

• Joy Buolamwini — Unmasking AI

  • https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576618/unmasking-ai-by-joy-buolamwini/

• Liza Mucheru Wisner — Become an AI HERO

  • https://www.amazon.com/Become-AI-Hero-Inclusive-Innovation/dp/1637655096

Books on Leadership, Systems Thinking & Change

• Peter Senge — The Fifth Discipline

  • https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/160902/the-fifth-discipline-by-peter-m-senge/

• John Kotter — Leading Change

  • https://store.hbr.org/product/leading-change/8827

• William Bridges — Managing Transitions

  • https://wmbridges.com/books/managing-transitions/

• Stephen M. R. Covey — The Speed of Trust

  • https://www.speedoftrust.com/

Human Psychology, Trust & Systems Change

• bell hooks — Teaching to Transgress

  • https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-to-Transgress-Education-as-the-Practice-of-Freedom/hooks/p/book/9780415908085

• Paulo Freire — Pedagogy of the Oppressed

  • https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/pedagogy-of-the-oppressed-9781501314131/

• Amy Edmondson — Research on Psychological Safety

  • https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6451

• Zoe Weil — The Solutionary Way

  • https://humaneeducation.org/books/the-solutionary-way/

• Jonathan Haidt — Research on attention, trust, and social connection

  • https://jonathanhaidt.com

• Everett Rogers — Diffusion of Innovations

  • https://books.google.com/books/about/Diffusion_of_Innovations.html?id=9U1K5LjUOwEC

AI Governance & Responsible AI Reports

• NIST AI Risk Management Framework

  • https://www.nist.gov/itl/ai-risk-management-framework

• Singapore Model AI Governance Framework

  • https://www.imda.gov.sg/resources/press-releases-factsheets-and-speeches/factsheets/2020/model-ai-governance-framework

• AI Verify Foundation

  • https://aiverifyfoundation.sg/

• Microsoft + LinkedIn Work Trend Index

  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index

• Federal Reserve AI Workplace Adoption Research

  • https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/measuring-ai-uptake-in-the-workplace-20240205.html

• MIT Sloan AI Productivity Research

  • https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/productivity-paradox-ai-adoption-manufacturing-firms

• IMF — “AI Will Transform the Global Economy”

  • https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2024/01/14/ai-will-transform-the-global-economy-lets-make-sure-it-benefits-humanity

• Stanford GSB — Zillow algorithmic collapse analysis

  • https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/flip-flop-why-zillows-algorithmic-home-buying-venture-imploded

• Karen Hao — AI labor and power concentration

  • https://www.technologyreview.com/author/karen-hao/

• Kate Crawford — environmental and infrastructural cost of AI

  • https://katecrawford.net/

• IMF / Kristalina Georgieva — AI’s labor market impact

  • https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2024/01/14/ai-will-transform-the-global-economy-lets-make-sure-it-benefits-humanity

Films, Culture & Human Futures

• Hidden Figures — Katherine Johnson and human trust in technology

  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/

• The Social Dilemma

  • https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/

• Coded Bias

  • https://www.codedbias.com/

• AlphaGo

  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6700846/

• Ex Machina

  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470752/

• The Great Hack

  • https://www.netflix.com/title/80117542

• Citizenfour

  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4044364/

• Minority Report

  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/

• Black Mirror

  • https://www.netflix.com/title/70264888

• Her

  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

• WALL-E

  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/

• The Danger of a Single Story — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  • https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story

• Interstellar

  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/

• Everything Everywhere All at Once

  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6710474/

• Blade Runner 2049

  • https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1856101/

• Tristan Harris — Humane Technology

  • https://www.humanetech.com

• Ruha Benjamin TED Talk

  • https://www.ted.com/speakers/ruha_benjamin

• Brené Brown — Vulnerability & Leadership

  • https://brenebrown.com/videos/

• Sam Altman Conversations on AI

  • https://openai.com/news/

• Fei-Fei Li — Human-Centered AI

  • https://hai.stanford.edu/people/fei-fei-li

Podcasts and Thought Leaders

• Brené Brown

  • https://brenebrown.com/podcast-show/unlocking-us/

• Ezra Klein AI Interviews

  • https://www.nytimes.com/column/ezra-klein-podcast

• Hard Fork Podcast

  • https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork

• TED AI Episodes

  • https://www.ted.com/topics/artificial+intelligence

• MIT Technology Review AI Coverage

  • https://www.technologyreview.com/topic/artificial-intelligence/

• Kara Swisher Interviews

  • https://www.voxmedia.com/podcasts/pivot

• OpenAI

  • https://openai.com/news/

• Anthropic

  • https://www.anthropic.com/news

• Human Centered AI — Stanford HAI

  • https://hai.stanford.edu/

• Tristan Harris & Center for Humane Technology

  • https://www.humanetech.com/

• All-In Podcast

  • https://www.allinpodcast.co/

• McKinsey AI Insights

  • https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/quantumblack/our-insights

• World Economic Forum — AI & Future of Work

  • https://www.weforum.org/topics/artificial-intelligence/

• Future of Life Institute

  • https://futureoflife.org/

• Partnership on AI

  • https://partnershiponai.org/

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One thing I continue learning through all of this:

The future of work is not simply a technology conversation.

It is a human conversation.

• About trust.

• About power.

• About labor.

• About dignity.

• About belonging.

• About who gets included in the future we are building together.

And while AI may transform how we work, I hope we never lose sight of the people underneath the systems. Intelligence alone has never determined the future of humanity. Our values do!