Nexus — Yuval Noah Harari (2024)

Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (2024) traces the relationship between information networks and human social organisation across history, arguing that AI represents a qualitatively new kind of information agent — not just a tool but an entity that can make autonomous decisions in the world. Its analysis of how information networks shape power structures provides essential context for understanding AI's political implications.