Karen Hao
Reporter covering artificial intelligence and author of Empire of AI
Karen Hao is a reporter covering artificial intelligence and the author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI (Penguin Press, May 2025), a book about OpenAI and the AI industry. Karen Hao works as a freelancer and speaker, has produced short documentaries for More Perfect Union, and co-hosted the BBC podcast The Interface. Earlier, Karen Hao reported on American and Chinese tech companies for The Wall Street Journal and was a senior AI editor at MIT Technology Review, and formerly wrote the weekly newsletter The Algorithm. Karen Hao co-created the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series, which trains journalists to cover AI.123
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI (external site: penguinrandomhouse.com)Show, channel, or publication
Author of the book, an account of OpenAI and the AI industry, published by Penguin Press.32
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