"Empire of AI": Author Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & Hidden Costs of Artificial Intelligence

[Uncle Joe]

In a New Year holiday special, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the 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 environment. “This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms,” says Hao in an extended interview.

[CousinIT]

1. It's often women...

... who consider the impact on humanity and who advocate tempering the greed and self-importance of male leaders to ensure that technology serves constructive rather than destructive ends.