Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Anupreeta Das dismantles the founding myth of OpenAI: that "open" ever meant transparent. Leaked messages between Ilya Sutskever and Elon Musk reveal the deception was deliberate from day one. From Mophat Okinyi reviewing fifteen thousand pieces of traumatic content monthly in Nairobi for $1.46 an hour, to Microsoft's Iowa data centers draining 11.5 million gallons during a drought, Das traces how the $157 billion empire externalizes its true costs onto the powerless while Sam Altman perfects the art of telling different stories to different audiences.

You'll learn:

- Why GPT-4 hallucinates on 30 percent of verifiable questions

- How 700 employees killed board oversight to protect a $90 billion tender offer

- What Sutskever meant when he said the secret "can be written on a grain of rice"