Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen Hao – Precise, insightful, troubling

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman is gifted and charismatic but a new book details how the way he drives the growth of his company has veered from its original ethical foundation. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination Author : Karen Hao ISBN-13 : 978-0241678923 Publisher : Allen Lane Guideline Price : £25 Fewer than three years ago, almost nobody outside of Silicon Valley, excepting perhaps science fiction enthusiasts, was talking about artificial intelligence or throwing the snappy short form, AI, into household conversations. But then came ChatGPT, a chatbot quietly released for…