In a wide-ranging Roundtables dialog for MIT Expertise Evaluate subscribers, journalist and writer Karen Hao just lately spoke about her new e book, Empire of AI: Goals and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
She talked with govt editor Niall Firth about how she first coated the corporate in 2020 whereas on employees at MIT Expertise Evaluate. They mentioned how the AI trade now capabilities like an empire and went on to look at what ethically-made AI seems to be like.
Learn the transcript of the dialog, which has been frivolously edited and condensed. And, should you’re already a subscriber, you possibly can watch the on-demand recording of the occasion right here.
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