In his book, Nexus, Yuval Noah Harari examines the implications of AI through a historical perspective. He first discusses the fundamentals of what information is, as well as the human networks that have historically been used to gather and disseminate (or suppress) it.
I particularly found interesting his treatment of how AI may impact (for good or ill) both democratic and totalitarian states, and the concept of a “silicon curtain”. A good read for those who are interested in how AI is shaping our present and future.