Karen Hao's 'AI Empire' Traces the Rise of AI Power Concentration
The book adds a critical journalistic perspective to the growing public debate over who controls AI development and how that power is wielded.
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Former MIT Technology Review AI reporter Karen Hao has published a book titled 'AI Empire,' based on seven years of reporting. The work traces the formation of artificial intelligence and the concentration of power in Silicon Valley and around the world. An interview with Hao covers the book's origins and aims.
Karen Hao spent seven years reporting on artificial intelligence for MIT Technology Review before writing 'AI Empire.' The book, published this week, traces the formation of AI as a field and the concentration of power among a small set of actors in Silicon Valley and beyond. In an interview with ASCII.jp, Hao discussed the reporting process and the book's goal of illuminating the structures behind AI development. The work arrives as governments and regulators worldwide grapple with the influence of a handful of companies over the technology's direction.
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- ASCII.jp 「AIの帝国」とは何か？ 元MITTR記者が描く、権力集中の実態