إمبراطورية الذكاء الاصطناعي | داخل السباق المتهور من أجل الهيمنة الكاملة

When Karen Howe, a veteran AI expert and journalist, first started covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought it represented the positive side. OpenAI was founded as a non-profit organization, the goal of which, as its leader Sam Altman told us, was to act as a check against pure market forces. But the fundamental truth of this massively revolutionary sector is that it requires an unprecedented amount of private resources: the enormous computing power of rare cutting-edge chips, the huge amount of data that must be collected on a massive scale, the human labor that is being “cleaned up” at low wages across the Global South, and the alarming increase in demand for the energy and water that underlies it all. We have entered a new and troubling era of expansion, where OpenAI is growing exponentially, while a small group of the most expensive companies in human history are trying to catch up. In evocative prose and with unparalleled access to those closest to Sam Altman, Howe chronicles OpenAI's meteoric rise and shows us the ominous impact this industry is having on society.