Karen Hao

Karen Hao is an American journalist renowned for her in-depth coverage of artificial intelligence, its ethics, and societal impacts, having served as senior AI editor at MIT Technology Review, a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, and contributor to The Atlantic. search. Her most notable works include the 2025 New York Times bestselling book Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, the newsletter The Algorithm, and co-producing the award-winning podcast In Machines We Trust; she has received accolades such as the 2021 Front Page Award, American National Magazine Award for Journalists Under 30, and TIME100 AI recognition. site.