Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI Karen Hao Primary Author mixed material bibliography New York Penguin Press 2025 en English

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482p OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit meant to conduct artificial intelligence research that would benefit the general public. In the company's early days, reporter Karen Hao arranged to spend time in OpenAI's offices and noticed the culture there was incredibly secretive. That secrecy raised questions for Hao that ultimately resulted in her new book, Empire of AI. The book is an intimate look at the company behind ChatGPT, but also at the industry-wide race to control AI. In today's episode, she speaks with NPR's Steve Inskeep about early disagreements between founders Sam Altman and Elon Musk, Altman's talents for fundraising and storytelling, and how the AI race is reproducing elements of colonial empire. NONE 9798217060481 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 006.3 HAO Emp 9206 C2O library & collabtive 006.3 HAO Emp empire.jpeg.jpeg 7896 2026-02-05 18:44:41 2026-02-05 18:46:43 machine generated