About the IAPP

Artificial intelligence is upending the planet in real time, and its path of unchecked development threatens to erode democracy and return us to an age of empire, where a small group of companies dictates our future. It does not have to be this way, says Karen Hao, a Silicon Valley engineer-turned-award-winning-journalist. Her book “Empire of AI” — an instant New York Times bestseller called a “heroic work” by Shoshana Zuboff (“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism”) — is the culmination of her years of insider access to OpenAI and her original reporting, spanning five continents. She assembles the fullest picture yet of the most consequential tech arms race in history. She shows how thoroughly AI will alter society, and, more importantly, what role we can all play in actively shaping AI so that it benefits everyone.