Empire of AI by Karen Hao is an investigative account of the rise of OpenAI and the new frontier of artificial intelligence. With vivid reportage from Silicon Valley and the Global South, Hao exposes how the AI boom mirrors paradigms of empire: concentrating power, extracting labour and resources, and shaping the future in the image of a few. At once a cautionary tale and a call to action, the book challenges us to ask: who builds this technology, who pays the cost, and who gets to decide how it is used? Read More