In the Ideal Gifts series, The Next Web team shares personal recommendations for gifts to give this holiday season._ No single book has inspired me this year more than Our Final Invention, a book by documentary maker James Barrat. This book is_a really accessible guide to the argument that artificial intelligence will eventually become ‘super-intelligence’ and kill us all. That may sound like something from a Terminator movie, but it’s a threat that increasing numbers of people are taking seriously. If annihilation-by-AI_is a topic you’ve never thought much about, this is a great place to start. It starts by explaining…

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