Empire of AI : (Record no. 608352)
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| control field | 24136452 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | US-DLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260204122700.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250402s2025 nyu 000 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2025935502 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780593657508 |
| Qualifying information | (hardcover) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Cancelled/invalid ISBN | 9780593657515 |
| Qualifying information | (ebook) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | au |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | au |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | pcc |
| 049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) | |
| Holding library | Alfaisal Main Library |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Q334.7 |
| Item number | .H36 2025 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hao, Karen, |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Empire of AI : |
| Remainder of title | dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Karen Hao. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2025 |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE STATEMENTS | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York City : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Penguin Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 482 pages |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content Type Term | text |
| Content Type Code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media Type Term | unmediated |
| Media Type Code | n |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier Type Term | volume |
| Carrier Type Code | nc |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "From a brilliant longtime AI insider with intimate access to the world of Sam Altman's OpenAI from the beginning, an eye-opening account of arguably the most fateful tech arms race in history, reshaping the planet in real time, from the cockpit of the company that is driving the frenzy When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Founded as a nonprofit with safety enshrined as its core mission, the organization was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely mercantile, and potentially dangerous, forces. What could go wrong? Over time, Hao began to wrestle ever more deeply with that question. Increasingly, she realized that the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that its vision of success requires an almost unprecedented amount of resources: the "compute" power of high-end chips and the processing capacity to create massive large language models, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans "cleaning up" that data for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the usage of energy and water underlying it all. The truth is that we have entered a new and ominous age of empire: only a small handful of globally scaled companies can even enter the field of play. At the head of the pack with its ChatGPT breakthrough, how would OpenAI resist such temptations? Spoiler alert: it didn't. Armed with Microsoft's billions, OpenAI is setting a breakneck pace, chased by a small group of the most valuable companies in human history-toward what end, not even they can define. All this time, Hao has maintained her deep sourcing within the company and the industry, and so she was in intimate contact with the story that shocked the entire tech industry-Altman's sudden firing and triumphant return. The behind-the-scenes story of what happened, told here in full for the first time, is revelatory of who the people controlling this technology really are. But this isn't just the story of a single company, however fascinating it is. The g forces pressing down on the people of OpenAI are deforming the judgment of everyone else too-as such forces do. Naked power finds the ideology to cloak itself; no one thinks they're the bad guy. But in the meantime, as Hao shows through intrepid reporting on the ground around the world, the enormous wheels of extraction grind on. By drawing on the viewpoints of Silicon Valley engineers, Kenyan data laborers, and Chilean water activists, Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we've seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed. An astonishing eyewitness view from both up in the command capsule of the new economy and down where the real suffering happens, Empire of AI pierces the veil of the industry defining our era"-- |
| 655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Print books. |
| Source of term | local |
| 9 (RLIN) | 4 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | BOOKS |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Alfaisal University | Alfaisal University | On Shelf | 2026-02-04 | Q334.7 .H36 2025 | AU00000000021190 | 2026-02-04 | 230.00 | 2026-02-04 | BOOKS |