Empire of AI: Dreams & Nightmares in Sam Altman's Open AI with KAREN HAO

<p data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">“My book is called <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569/empire-of-ai-by-karen-hao/"><strong>Empire of AI</strong></a> because I'm trying to articulate this argument and illustrate that these companies operate exactly like empires of old. I highlight four features that essentially encapsulate the three things you read. However, I started talking about it in a different way after writing the book.</p><p class="" data-rte-preserve-empty="true" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The four features are: they lay claim to resources that are not their own, which is the centralization of resources; they exploit an extraordinary amount of labor, both in the development of the technology and the fact that they're producing labor-automating technologies that then suppress workers' ability to bargain for better rights; they monopolize knowledge production, which comes when they centralize talent.”</p><p class="" data-rte...