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Those of us who live in California’s Silicon Valley often find ourselves drowning in a soup cooked up by self-important tech bros and their self-fulfilling prophecies. So many of our close relatives, friends, neighbors, and acquaintances draw sustenance from the burgeoning business of AI. But even we only get an occasional glimpse behind the hype.

In Empire of AI, seasoned tech reporter Karen Hao reveals the seedy underbelly of the race toward a deeply flawed but most likely life-altering Artificial General Intelligence, through the lens of one of its leading proponents, OpenAI. Encompassing the story of how we got here…

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