
Corporate
Empire of AI
Karen Hao
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Journalist Karen Hao's investigative account traces OpenAI's rise from nonprofit research lab to dominant commercial force, examining the human and environmental costs behind the AI boom — from underpaid data-labeling workers to resource-intensive data centers — and the industry's outsized concentration of power.
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