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

Wed Oct 22 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:45 pm UTC-04:00

Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center | New York

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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI
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Karen Hao in Conversation with John Borthwick
About this Event

In Empire of AI (“startling and intensely researched” — Vulture) Karen Hao lifts the veil on the industry defining our era. With access to the world of Sam Altman’s OpenAI from the beginning, Hao how had an insider’s view of the development of this world-changing technology, the breakthrough of Chat GPT, and the company’s path from idealism to a pursuit of power consuming vast information and resources. Hao, an award-winning journalist covering artificial intelligence, has written for The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal and was senior editor of the MIT Technology Review. She speaks about her provocative new book with John Borthwick, a leader in the New York startup technology business for over three decades, who is founder and CEO of betaworks.


Presented with the Leon Levy Center for Biography. Co-sponsored by Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

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Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue, New York, United States

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