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It’s nearly impossible to discuss technology these days without addressing AI. To mark Technology Day 2026, we’re highlighting a selection of titles about AI from the MIT Press that explore the technology’s future, challenges, and impact. These books provide essential perspectives for anyone seeking to understand where AI is headed and how it’s transforming the world around us. Read on to explore these books, and sign up for our newsletter to receive more updates from the MIT Press.

The world is getting hotter, autonomous robots roam our streets, and the seas are getting higher. Every day, the news begins to feel more like science fiction. This year to mark Science Fiction Day, we have gathered a list of books that provide lessons for this coming apocalypse. Read on to explore the collection, and sign up for our newsletter to receive more updates from the MIT Press.

This month: a lively account of bouncing balls through the history of games; the untold story of a world-transforming invention; a comprehensive introduction to robophilosophy; and more. Explore these books and a selection of our other new and soon-to-be-released titles below.

As we come to a close on 2025, we are thrilled to highlight just some of the accolades that have been granted to our authors in the last months. Explore the list of recent award-winning MIT Press books below. To be the first to hear about award announcements like these and other news from the Press, sign up for our newsletter.

This coming season, the MIT Press proudly presents works that confront the urgent questions of our time while opening new windows onto science, technology, politics, design, and culture. From questions of health and justice to the mysteries of life, death, and the mind, these works exemplify the Press’s commitment to boundary-breaking publishing. They are works of courage and imagination, and emblems of what books at their best can achieve.

For some, the biggest end-of-year traditions might be holidays and hot chocolate, family and festivities, or the first snowfall and all the merriment that comes with it. Our favorite end-of-year tradition is gathering ‘round to pore over the latest best book lists. It’s an opportunity to reflect on a year in publishing and, more importantly, to count just how many of the top picks made their way onto our bedside tables.

The MIT Press and cognitive science journal Open Mindare excited to announce a partnership with Lyrasis through the Open Access Community Investment Program (OACIP), an innovative model that brings together libraries, scholarly communities, and nonprofit publishers to support diamond open access journals.

Every year on December 10th, we celebrate human rights, commemorating the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This declaration established the fundamental freedoms of equality, justice, and dignity to which all people are entitled, regardless of nationality or circumstance. In an age increasingly defined by the internet, data-driven systems, and artificial intelligence, these principles must be expanded into the digital sphere.

Description Resources Open Access A clarion call for visions of vibrant, hopeful climate futures, bringing together global voices to share stories of resilient communities based in real science. When we think of climate, the stories we tell about the future are often catastrophic: megastorms, crop failures, and heat waves loom over us, sending a signal that the problem is so vast, so complex, that it’s out of our control.

This month: A clarion call for visions of vibrant, hopeful climate futures; an essential guidebook on innovation in higher education; a study of how to repair our culture by reimagining how we make media; and more. Explore these books and a selection of our other new and soon-to-be-released titles below.