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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao
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Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Condition: New
ISBN-13: 9780593657508
ISBN-10: 0593657500
Author: Karen Hao
Format: Hardcover
Sold by: The Sequoia Books
Award-winning journalist Karen Hao delivers a gripping, deeply reported account of OpenAI and the rise of the artificial intelligence industry under Sam Altman. Drawing on extensive interviews and insider access, Empire of AI charts the company's transformation from an idealistic nonprofit into one of the most powerful and secretive forces in technology. Hao examines the ambition, ideology, and human costs behind the race to build artificial general intelligence, offering an essential and unflinching look at the people and decisions shaping our AI-driven future.