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  title info:
    title: Empire of AI
    sub title: dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
  name:
    name part: Hao, Karen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 482 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: From 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 jus…
  table of contents: Prologue: A Run for the Throne -- Part I. Divine right -- A Civilizing Mission -- Nerve Center -- Dreams of Modernity -- Scale of Ambition -- Part II. Ascension -- Science in Captivity -- Dawn of Commerce -- Disaster Capitalism -- Part III. Gods and Demons -- Apex -- Plundered Earth -- The Two Prophets -- Deliverance -- Part IV. The Gambit -- Cloak-and-Dagger -- Reckoning -- A Formula for Empire -- Epilogue: How the Empire Falls.
  note: Karen Hao.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: OpenAI (Firm)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Altman, Sam
      name part: 1985-
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics & Trade
  classification: 006.3
  identifier: 9780593657508
  identifier: 0593657500
  identifier: 9798217060481
  identifier: 9780593657515
  identifier: 0593657519
  identifier: 2025935502
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250104
    record change date: 20251111164403.6
    record identifier: in00005668526