Name: Empire of ai: Dreams and Nightmares in sam Altman's Openai
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Author: Karen Hao
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Empire of ai: Dreams and Nightmares in sam Altman's Openai

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Physical Book

Author

Karen Hao

Publisher

Penguin Press

Language

English

Pages

496

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780593657508

Empire of ai: Dreams and Nightmares in sam Altman's Openai

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Synopsis "Empire of ai: Dreams and Nightmares in sam Altman's Openai"

From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources: the "compute" power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans "cleaning up" that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire: only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations? Spoiler alert: it didn't. Armed with Microsoft's billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history--toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry--Altman's sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn't just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too--as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they're the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid reporting on the ground around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we've seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. An astonishing eyewitness view from both up in the command capsule of the new economy and down where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era.

Karen Hao

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Karen Hao es una periodista e ingeniera mecánica estadounidense cuya voz se ha vuelto una de las más influyentes en el debate global sobre inteligencia artificial. Estudió en el MIT (B.S. en ingeniería mecánica, minor en energy studies) y comenzó su carrera como ingeniera en una startup derivada de Google X, antes de reorientarse al periodismo tecnológico. Ha trabajado en medios como Quartz, MIT Technology Review (como editora sénior de IA), The Wall Street Journal y The Atlantic, especializándose en los riesgos éticos, sociales y ambientales de la IA.

En mayo de 2025 publicó Empire of AI (en español El imperio de la IA), donde examina la génesis, poder y consecuencias de OpenAI y la industria de la IA, mostrando sus efectos en la desigualdad global, el trabajo y los recursos naturales. El libro se convirtió en un best-seller instantáneo, y su labor periodística le ha valido reconocimientos como el American National Magazine Award para periodistas menores de 30 años, un Front Page Award por su trabajo en el podcast In Machines We Trust y su inclusión en la lista TIME100 AI de 2025 como una de las voces más influyentes en el campo.

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