Tech journalist Karen Hao takes aim at Sam Altman’s OpenAI ‘empire’

Tech journalist Karen Hao takes aim at Sam Altman’s OpenAI ‘empire’

Hao is critical of OpenAI and the tech industry’s other AI superpowers, but hasn’t given up hope for the future

Decolonizing the Future: Karen Hao on Resisting the Empire of AI

In his New York Times review of the book, Columbia Law School professor and former White House official Tim Wu calls journalist Karen Hao’s new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, “a corrective to tech journalism that rarely leaves Silicon Valley.” Hao has appeared on this podcast before, to help us understand how the business model of social media platforms incentivizes the deterioration of information ecosystems, …