Virginia Dignum Princeton Univ. Press (2026) Some leading thinkers on artificial intelligence regard AI models as neither artificial nor intelligent. Virginia Dignum — who has contributed to AI initiatives for organizations such as the United Nations — agrees. AI systems “lack true comprehension and depend heavily on human input and material resources”, she writes in her stimulating analysis of the many paradoxes that are raised by the development of AI tools. She argues that governments must scrutinize technology companies as rigorously as they do pharmaceutical ones. Andrew H. Jaffe Yale Univ. Press (2025) “The sun and the stars and the edge of the Universe are inaccessible, but no more so than the interior lives of other people,” writes astrophysicist Andrew Jaffe in his intriguing book about epistemology, probability and cosmology.…