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Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness — David J. Chalmers
The Extended Mind — Andy Clark and David J. Chalmers
Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework — Douglas C. Engelbart
How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures — National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence — UNESCO
Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) — Elham Tabassi / NIST
Guidance for Generative AI in Education and Research — Fengchun Miao and Wayne Holmes / UNESCO
Data Feminism — Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need — Sasha Costanza-Chock
Human-Robot Interaction: An Introduction, second edition — Christoph Bartneck, Tony Belpaeme, Friederike Eyssel, Takayuki Kanda, Merel Keijsers, Selma Šabanović
Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025 — Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI / AI Index
LHC: The Guide — CERN Education, Communications and Outreach Group
NASA Astrobiology Strategy 2015 — NASA; Lindsay Hays, editor-in-chief
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Independent Study Team Report — NASA independent study team; David Spergel, chair
Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report — Summary for Policymakers — IPCC
Human Genome Editing: Recommendations — World Health Organization expert advisory committee
Human Genome Editing: A Framework for Governance — World Health Organization expert advisory committee
Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights — UNESCO General Conference
Cargo Cult Science — Richard P. Feynman
Reproducibility and Replicability in Science — National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Astronomy 2e — Andrew Fraknoi; David Morrison; Sidney Wolff
Biology 2e — Mary Ann Clark; Matthew Douglas; Jung Choi
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Machine Stops, in The Eternal Moment and Other Stories — E. M. Forster
Democracy and Education — John Dewey
The Souls of Black Folk — W. E. B. Du Bois
On Liberty — John Stuart Mill
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman — Mary Wollstonecraft
The Republic — Plato; translated by Benjamin Jowett
University Physics Volume 3 — Samuel J. Ling, Jeff Sanny, William Moebs / OpenStax
Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2026 — Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI / AI Index