Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Name: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
ISBN: 9780593657508

by Karen Hao

National Book · 2025 · Shortlist

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Penguin PressFebruary 18, 2025Nonfiction Science & NatureISBN 9780593657508

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction	2025	Shortlist

About This Book

Karen Hao's inside account of OpenAI charts the company's transformation from a nonprofit research lab into a commercial AI giant, exploring the tensions between safety, speed, and power that shaped the development of ChatGPT. A finalist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction 2025.

About the Author

Karen HaoAmerican

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. Read more →