Karen Hao 在《Empire of AI》中,記錄她對 OpenAI 及全球人工智慧競賽的近距離觀察。最初以安全為核心使命的非營利組織,隨著 ChatGPT 的成功與微軟資金的加入,逐漸捲入高速、資源密集且高度集中的競爭。書中不僅揭露 Altman 的辭退與復職內情,也細述 AI 產業的代價——昂貴的運算能力、全球規模的數據蒐集、低薪勞工清理資料,以及對能源與水資源的龐大消耗。透過跨洲採訪,本書展現了 AI 如何同時重塑經濟權力與加深社會不平等。From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzyWhen AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong?Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this mas