Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
A bestselling author and award-winning reporter covering artificial intelligence, Karen Hao was the first journalist to profile OpenAI and to write the book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, about the company, Sam Altman, and the AI industry.
Hao writes for publications like The Atlantic and leads The AI Spotlight Series, a program she designed with the Pulitzer Center that trains thousands of journalists around the world on how to cover AI.
Previously, Hao was a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal focused on AI & China, and a senior editor at MIT Technology Review, where she wrote about the latest AI research and its social impacts. She has been a fellow with the Harvard Technology and Public Purpose program, the MIT Knight Science Journalism program, and the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Before coming to media, she was an application engineer at the first startup to spin out of Google[x].
Hao received a B.S. in mechanical engineering and a minor in energy studies from MIT.
Photo credit: Shoko Takayasu