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karen hao 0 skip to content karen hao home about book tour writing speaking contact open menu close menu karen hao home about book tour writing speaking contact open menu close menu home about book tour writing speaking contact empire of ai an instant nyt bestseller an international bestseller winner of the national book critics circle award the la times book award the nypl s helen bernstein book award for excellence in journalism the whiting award the porchlight business book award named a best book of the year by the new york times the financial times the economist smithsonian scientific american elle a heroic work shoshana zuboff author of the age of surveillance capitalism buy the book us edition for other editions see below all order options barnes noble bookshop org apple books amazon audiobook e book other editions uk edition spanish hungarian simplified chinese korean polish french forthcoming traditional chinese japanese brazilian portugal portuguese romanian russian turkish ukrainian vietnamese join the tour event dates registration from a brilliant longtime ai insider with intimate access to the world of sam altman s openai from the beginning 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 as its core mission the organization was meant its leader sam altman told us to act as a check against more 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 massively 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 large language models 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 a truly alarming spike in the 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 chatgpt breakthrough 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 is revelatory of 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 reporting on the ground around the world the enormous wheels of extraction grind on by drawing on the viewpoints of silicon valley engineers 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 praise a bestselling page turner that has made waves not just in silicon valley but around the world with empire of ai hao is fundamentally shaping many people s perceptions and understanding of the company at the center of the ai revolution time magazine time100 ai 2025 the strength of karen hao s detailed analysis of america s ai industry empire of ai is that her relentlessly grounded approach refuses to play the game of the ai hype merchants hao makes a convincing case that it is wrong to focus on hypotheticals about the future of ai when its present incarnation is fraught with so many problems jacobin startling and intensely researched an essential account of how openai and chatgpt came to be and the catastrophic places they will likely take us vulture excellent and deeply reported tim wu the new york times hao s reporting inside openai is exceptional and she s persuasive in her argument that the public should focus less on a i s putative sentience and more on its implications for labor and the environment benjamin wallace wells new yorker deeply researched gripping the economist empire of ai is a powerful work bristling not only with great reporting but also with big ideas mat honan mit technology review timely and myth busting well reported doesn t pull any punches financial times our lives are about to be remade by artificial intelligence or to be more accurate by a few companies run by a few very self confident people if you ever wondered whether all of this is inevitable whether to believe all the promises of tech luminaries whether we could save a little bit of our democracy in the age of ai then read this book daron acemoglu institute professor mit and recipient of the 2024 nobel prize in economic sciences with devastating revelations deep insider research and delightful page turning delivery karen hao shows us why she is one of the foremost tech journalists covering ai from data centers in chile to data workers in kenya empire of ai reveals the hidden human and environmental costs behind ai products that have triggered a race for land water and cheap labor to cement power in the hands of a few empire of ai is the warning we need just as more open and less energy intensive alternatives reveal that a different ai future is possible and achievable dr joy buolamwini founder of algorithmic justice league and best selling author of unmasking ai in her brilliant book empire of ai karen hao chronicles the mania surrounding artificial intelligence and openai with a cast of scientists scammers and scoundrels empire of ai documents the hype campaign that caused the world to fall in love with a technology whose immediate harms are legion and benefits remain unproved roger mcnamee cofounder of elevation partners and new york times bestselling author of zucked karen hao s empire of ai is an epic exposé that pulls back the curtain on the egos and uneasy compromises behind the rise of openai and chatgpt it s full of dark details some of them bordering on absurd that shows how much of the ai boom runs on secrecy and is driven by questionable ideologies this book serves as a warning about the price we all pay when ai builders who dreamed of utopia got swept up in a race to build empires instead parmy olson bloomberg columnist and author of supremacy empire of ai is a heroic work karen hao braved many obstacles with gritty determination as she traveled the yellow brick road to the oz of the storied corporation openai to bring us this work of essential public education her courage was rewarded with truth altman a cunning young man with outsized ambition and excellent people skills condemned the world to the digital violence of an approach to artificial intelligence that can only exist by devouring the totality of the world s information and then the world itself mr altman was no wizard and the seers of our digital future had little vision beyond their own baseless rhetoric and the billions of dollars from greedy or guileless investors hao is a gifted journalist and a deep thinker who reveals the historical significance and societal consequences of silicon valley s ai spectacle even as she meticulously documents a company and its leader hellbent on getting there first with no idea where they are going if you think the digital future is safe in the hands of brilliant scientists smart investors and earnest political leaders read this book and think again shoshana zuboff author of the age of surveillance capitalism charles edward wilson professor emeritus harvard business school spring summer 2026 tour speaking calendar events marked with an asterisk are open to anyone through a ticket purchase or free registration apr 19 turin it biennale tecnologia see details apr 22 brussels be heinrich böll stiftung see details apr 24 warsaw pl centrum nauki kopernik see details may 11 christchurch aotearoa word christchurch buy tickets may 15 16 auckland aotearoa auckland writers festival buy tickets may 18 berlin de re publica see details buy pass requires a festival pass may 19 copenhagen dk himss see details buy pass requires a conference pass may 20 milan it ai week buy pass details forthcoming requires a festival pass may 21 london uk the podcast show buy pass details forthcoming requires a conference pass may 22 london uk with carole cadwalladr how to academy buy tickets may 24 hay uk hay festival buy tickets may 26 london uk the bureau of investigative journalism buy tickets may 28 manchester uk university of manchester details forthcoming jun 20 tbilisi ge zeg fest buy pass details forthcoming requires a festival pass jun 26 athens gr snf nostos see details register for free jun 30 são paulo br details forthcoming see past events photo credit shoko takayasu about the author karen hao is an award winning journalist covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society she co hosts the bbc podcast the interface and contributes to publications including more perfect union and the atlantic she also co created the pulitzer center s ai spotlight series a program that has trained thousands of journalists around the world on how to cover ai she was formerly a reporter for the wall street journal covering american and chinese tech companies and a senior editor for ai at mit technology review she has received numerous accolades for her coverage including an american humanist media award an american national magazine award for journalists under 30 and a time100 ai honor she received her bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from mit karen hao order my book empire of ai join me on tour contact me