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100			_aHao, Karen
245			_a Empire of AI : _binside the reckless race for total domination / _c Karen Hao.
260			_aINDIA _bAllen Lane _c2025
300			_axii, 482 pages _c24 cm.
365			_b1499.00
505			_aAUTHOR's NOTE - PROLOGUE A Run for the Throne - I 1 Divine Right - 2 A Civilizing Mission - 3 Nerve Center - 4 Dreams of Modernity - 5 Scale of Ambition - II 6 Ascension - 7 Science in Captivity - 8 Dawn of Commerce - 9 Disaster Capitalism - III 10 Gods and Demons - 11 Apex - 12 Plundered Earth - 13 The Two Prophets - 14 Deliverance - IV 15 The Gambit - 16 Cloak-and-Dagger - 17 Reckoning - 18 A Formula for Empire - EPILOGUE How the Empire Falls - ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - NOTES - 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.
650			_a Artificial intelligence -- Social aspects
650			_aArtificial intelligence -- Moral and ethical aspects
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