Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

An Instant New York Times Bestseller 'Excellent and deeply reported.' --Tim Wu, The New York Times '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 '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 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