In a wide-ranging Roundtables dialog for MIT Expertise Evaluation subscribers, journalist and writer Karen Hao just lately spoke about her new guide, Empire of AI: Goals and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
She talked with government editor Niall Firth about how she first lined the corporate in 2020 whereas on workers at MIT Expertise Evaluation. They mentioned how the AI trade now capabilities like an empire and went on to look at what ethically-made AI appears like.
Learn the transcript of the dialog, which has been flippantly edited and condensed. And, if you happen to’re already a subscriber, you’ll be able to watch the on-demand recording of the occasion right here.
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