Empire of AI

Empire of AIAn eye opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces. But the core

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would be heartbroken if he had lived to see the ways we use technology today

offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure

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Badiou proposes instead the consideration of politics in terms of the production of truth and the affirmation of equality

Radical and superbly readable

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This remarkable and accessible new selection of Girard's work shows him as a writer for our times

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Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West wherein cheerfulness — a momentary uptick in emotional energy

a magazine publisher who dodged the secret police: these are some of the people who make up Sparks: China''s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future