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- ISBN: 9780593657522
- ISBN: 0593657527
- ISBN: 9798217060481
- Physical Description: xii, 484 pages 22 cm
- Edition: Paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2026.
- Copyright: ©2026
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| General Note: | Edition statement transcribed from afterword. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages ... Read More |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: a run for the throne -- Part I. 1. ... Read More |
| Summary, etc.: | From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate ... Read More |
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| 505 | 0 | 0. | ‡tPrologue: a run for the throne -- ‡gPart I. ‡g1. ‡tDivine right -- ‡g2. ‡tA civilizing mission -- ‡g3. ‡tNerve center -- ‡g4. ‡tDreams of modernity -- ‡g5. ‡tScale of ambition -- ‡gPart II. ‡t6. ‡tAscension -- ‡g7. ‡tScience in captivity -- ‡g8. ‡tDawn of commerce -- ‡g9. ‡tDisaster capitalism -- ‡gPart III. ‡g10. ‡tGods and demons -- ‡g11. ‡tApex -- ‡g12. ‡tPlundered Earth -- ‡g13. ‡tThe two prophets -- ‡g14. ‡tDeliverance -- ‡gPart IV. ‡g15. ‡tThe gambit -- ‡g16. ‡tCloak-and-dagger -- ‡g17. ‡tReckoning -- ‡g18. ‡tA formula for empire -- ‡tEpilogue: how the empire falls. |
| 520 | . | ‡aFrom a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy. When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined in its mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this vastly disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources : the "compute" power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive LLMs, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans "cleaning up" that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and the truly alarming usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire : only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its breakthrough ChatGPT, how would OpenAI resist such temptations? Spoiler alert : It didn't. Armed with Microsoft's billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history -- toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry -- Altman's sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, reveals who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn't just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g-forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too -- as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they're the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid, on-the-ground reporting from around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley researchers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we've seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. An astonishing eyewitness view from both up in the command capsule of the new economy and down where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era. | |
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