Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination

Author: Karen Hao

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About This BookAn eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAIWhen longtime AI expert and 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, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces. But the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that it requires an unprecedented amount of proprietary resources: the ‘compute’ power of scarce high-end chips, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans on the ground ‘cleaning it up’ for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the need for energy and water underlying everything. We have entered a new, ominous age of empire with OpenAI setting a breakneck pace, as a small group of the most valuable companies in human history try to chase it down. In exhilarating prose and with unparalleled access to those closest to Sam Altman, Hao recounts the meteoric rise of OpenAI and shows us the sinister impact that this industry is having on society. Read moreBook DetailsAuthor: Karen HaoPublisher: ‎ Allen Lane (20 May 2025); Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.ukFormat: Hardcover – 20 May 2025Language: ‎ EnglishPages: 496ISBN: ‎ 978-0241678923Dimensions: ‎ 16.1 x 4 x 24.2 cmWeight: ‎ 500 g

Browse this title within our Social Sciences and Education collection. Edition details: Hardcover – 20 May 2025, ‎ English.

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• You’ll love this book if you want to understand what’s really driving the AI boom beyond the hype. Written by an insider journalist, it pulls back the curtain on power, profit, and politics shaping today’s AI empires. You get a sharp, deeply reported narrative that connects technology to global inequality, environmental cost, and democracy itself. It’s a premium, thought‑provoking read that will change how you see AI—and who it truly serves.
• Published by ‎ Allen Lane (20 May 2025); Penguin Random House Ireland Limited; productsafety@penguin.co.uk.
• Language: ‎ English.

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About This BookAn eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAIWhen longtime AI expert and 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, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces. But the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that it requires an unprecedented amount of proprietary resources: the ‘compute’ power of scarce high-end chips, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans on...

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