“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

In this holiday special, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which unveils the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of workers in Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology’s detrimental impact on the e