{"id":13873,"date":"2025-07-08T03:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=13873"},"modified":"2025-07-08T03:17:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T07:17:04","slug":"karen-hao-on-how-the-ai-boom-became-a-new-imperial-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/karen-hao-on-how-the-ai-boom-became-a-new-imperial-frontier\/13873\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Hao on how the AI boom became a new imperial frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published on\u00a0Reuters.com, July 3, 2025. The &#8216;Empire of AI&#8217; author joins our new weekly Q&amp;A series with cultural tastemakers to explore the intersection of their craft and the news. When journalist Karen Hao first profiled OpenAI in 2020, it was a little-known startup. Five years and one very popular chatbot later, the company has transformed into a dominant force in the fast-expanding AI sector \u2014 one Hao likens to a \u201cmodern-day colonial world order\u201d in her new book, \u201cEmpire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI.\u201d Hao tells Reuters this isn\u2019t a comparison she made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/karen-hao-on-how-the-ai-boom-became-a-new-imperial-frontier\/13873\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published on\u00a0Reuters.com, July 3, 2025. The &#8216;Empire of AI&#8217; author joins our new weekly Q&amp;A series with cultural tastemakers to explore the intersection of their craft and the news. When journalist Karen Hao first profiled OpenAI in 2020, it was a little-known startup. Five years and one very popular chatbot later, the company has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13876,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873\/revisions\/13876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}