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    Artificial Intelligence

    Empire of AI

    Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI

    By Karen Hao

    Karen Hao investigates OpenAI and the global human, economic, and environmental costs of the race to build AI.

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    Empire of AI is Karen Hao’s reported examination of OpenAI and the broader AI industry. It follows the ambitions and decisions behind the development of large-scale AI systems, exploring the people, labor, resources, and power structures involved.

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    Karen Hao

    Technology journalist | AI author

    Karen Hao is a technology journalist and the author of Empire of AI. She has reported extensively on artificial intelligence, including as a senior AI editor at MIT Technology Review and a reporter at The Wall Street Journal.

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