"The Naked Sun" by Isaac Asimov.
Follow up to "The Caves Of Steel," but it can work as a stand alone.
In the future, humanity is split between the inhabitants of the Earth and the Spacers.
Earth people live in vast mega-cities and most are agoraphobics who would never step outside. They also hate and fear robots.
Spacers live on distant planets [FTL drive is real] On one world the population is limited to 50,000 humans, and each one owns hundreds, if not thousands of robots.
Breakout is a techno-thriller grounded in real science. Enjoyed this one.
Why do you want to do this to yourself?
Not exactly what you're after but William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy is pretty close minus the small population and only small parts of the population live in some sort of paradise. There's also Burning Chrome, which is set in the same universe but is a series of short stories. It's a dystopian near future sci-fi noir that is considered to have basically started the whole cyberpunk genre. Punchy writing, would recommend.
Not so much with ai, but Palo Bacigalupi I feel like does a pretty good dystopian future wrt climate change, I'd recommend the windup girl
You should read the Scythe series. It's YA, so don't expect anything too gritty, but it's a good story and one of the better depictions of an AI Superintelligence that I've seen.
Also, the Superintelligence is core to the story, but not the subject of the story, which is nice .
Post-Human series by David Simpson
Author David Simpson writes the “Post-Human” series of science fiction novels. The series of novels began publication in the year 2009, when “Post-Human” was released.
Despite being the third released novel, “Sub-Human” is really the beginning of the story, as it tells how everything happened to lead up to the events of “Post-Human”.
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