Praise“A bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world . . . With Empire of AI, Hao is fundamentally shaping many people’s perceptions and understanding of the company at the center of the AI revolution.”  —TIME Magazine, “TIME100 AI 2025”“The strength of Karen Hao’s detailed analysis of America’s AI industry, Empire of AI, is that her relentlessly grounded approach refuses to play the game of the AI hype merchants. Hao makes a convincing case that it is wrong to focus on hypotheticals about the future of AI when its present incarnation is fraught with so many problems.” —Jacobin“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“Excellent and deeply reported.” —Tim Wu, The New York Times“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“Deeply researched, gripping.” —The Economist“Empire of AI is a powerful work, bristling not only with great reporting but also with big ideas.” —Mat Honan, MIT Technology Review“Timely and myth-busting . . . well reported . . . doesn’t pull any punches.” —Financial Times“Our lives are about to be remade by artificial intelligence—or to be more accurate, by a few companies run by a few very self-confident people. If you ever wondered whether all of this is inevitable, whether to believe all the promises of tech luminaries, whether we could save a little bit of our democracy in the age of AI, then read this book!” — Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, MIT, and recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences“With devastating revelations, deep insider research, and delightful page-turning delivery, Karen Hao shows us why she is one of the foremost tech journalists covering AI. From