OpenAI’s Secrets are Revealed in book 'Empire of AI'
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Technology reporter Karen Hao's book "Empire of AI" exposes OpenAI's inner workings through interviews with company insiders, revealing how the pursuit of artificial general intelligence resembles colonial empires through massive resource extraction and worker exploitation. Hao documents how OpenAI contracted Kenyan workers to filter traumatic content for pittance wages while CEO Sam Altman pursues $10 trillion energy expansion plans that threaten environmental goals.
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