In Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, investigative journalist Karen Hao delivers a deeply reported look inside the company at the center of the global AI race.
Drawing on exclusive access and years of firsthand reporting, Hao traces OpenAI’s transformation from a nonprofit promising safety and transparency into one of the most powerful and secretive players in tech.
Through the lens of founder Sam Altman’s leadership, she examines how the quest to dominate artificial intelligence has changed work, resources, and the world on a planetary level.
The book interweaves Silicon Valley insider accounts with those of data workers in Kenya and activists in Chile to reveal the actual human and environmental cost of the AI boom.
Critics have praised Hao’s book as “startling and essential,” comparing it to a modern-day exposé of technological empire building.
Empire of AI documents both the ambition and the danger of the AI era, a story of innovation, competition, and the unintended consequences of machines meant to change the world.
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