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。An Instant New York Times Bestseller“Excellent and deeply reported.” —Tim Wu, The New York Times“Startling and intensely researched . . . an essential account of how OpenAI and ChatGPT came to be and the catastrophic places they will likely take us.” —Vulture“Hao’s reporting inside OpenAI is exceptional, and she’s persuasive in her argument that the public should focus less on A.I.’s putative ‘sentience’ and more on its implications for labor and the environment.” —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New YorkerFrom 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
