Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Another great book about the risks of AI, but this time it focuses specifically on OpenAI. The main subject throughout the story is the risk of concentrating power in the wrong hands, the manipulation of the AI narrative, scraping data from the entire internet without consent, draining resources from the Earth, labor exploitation in the Global South, and digital colonialism—wiping "low-resource" languages from use.
— Oleksandr, 2026