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100			_aHao, Karen
245			_aEmpire of AI: inside the reckless race for total domination
260			_aLondon: _bAllen Lane, _c2025.
300			_axii, 482p.: _bhbk.: _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes Notes and Index
520			_aWhen longtime AI expert and 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, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces. But the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that it requires an unprecedented amount of proprietary resources: the ‘compute’ power of scarce high-end chips, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans on the ground ‘cleaning it up’ for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the need for energy and water underlying everything. We have entered a new, ominous age of empire with OpenAI setting a breakneck pace, as a small group of the most valuable companies in human history try to chase it down. In exhilarating prose and with unparalleled access to those closest to Sam Altman, Hao recounts the meteoric rise of OpenAI and shows us the sinister impact that this industry is having on society. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460331/empire-of-ai-by-hao-karen/9780241678923
650			_aArtificial Intelligence Power Dynamics
650			_aCompute and Data Extraction
650			_aOpenAI and the AI Industry
650			_aEthics and Governance in AI
650			_aBig Tech Competition
650			_aEnvironmental Costs of AI
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