Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao


I finished Empire of AI two weeks ago, and I liked it very much. Karen Hao threads together the personalities, incentives, and consequences of this formative AI era with a clarity that makes the book feel like an instant classic for early-stage AI history. The opening—Sam Altman’s firing and swift return to OpenAI—sets the tone:… Continue reading Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao