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Center for the Humanities Presents: Karen Hao: Empire of AI (Just AI Series)
Karen Hao brings together her training as an engineer with a talent for telling the stories behind the technology. Selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in AI in 2025, she is a best-selling author and award-winner journalist. Her most recent book is Empire of AI, which looks at the creation of Open AI, the corporation behind ChatGPT. It’s an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, one that is reshaping the planet in real time.