防詐3要訣：不聽信、不操作、掛斷電話 
Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination
內容簡介
《AI帝國：從OpenAI內部揭露一場改寫世界的科技競賽》
Empire of AI
作者：凱倫・郝（Karen Hao）
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「優秀且深度調查。」——《紐約時報》Tim Wu
「驚心動魄、研究深入……揭示OpenAI與ChatGPT如何崛起，以及它們可能帶我們走向的災難性未來。」——《Vulture》
「郝對OpenAI的報導極為出色，她有力地指出，我們應該少談AI的『意識』，多關注它對勞工與環境的衝擊。」——《紐約客》Benjamin Wallace-Wells
從一位深度進入OpenAI內部、橫跨矽谷與全球現場的AI記者視角，揭開這場人類歷史上最關鍵的科技軍備競賽背後的真相與代價。
當凱倫・郝在2019年開始報導OpenAI時，她以為這是一家「正義之師」——一個非營利機構，承諾以安全為核心價值，致力於抵抗純粹逐利、具潛在風險的科技發展路線。但她很快意識到，這個產業的「成功願景」，仰賴的其實是一套驚人且掠奪性的結構：需要高端晶片、龐大數據、全球南方廉價人工清理數據，還有不斷飆升的能源與水資源消耗。
OpenAI能否抗拒這些誘惑？答案是：不能。
有了微軟的數十億資金支持，OpenAI正以極速推進，帶領全球最有權勢的企業向一個連他們自己都說不清的終點狂奔。而當震驚科技圈的事件——薩姆・奧特曼（Sam Altman）被解職又旋即回歸——發生時，郝已經建立起深入內部的消息網路，並首度完整揭露這場高層權力鬥爭背後的真相。
但這不只是OpenAI一家的故事。這是一場資源掠奪與權力集中交織的運作機制，正重塑整個世界。從矽谷工程師，到肯亞的低薪數據工人，再到智利反對AI耗水的社運人士，郝以全球視野構築出一幅最完整的AI產業圖像。
《AI帝國》是一部從指揮艙到最底層現場的第一手見證，也是對當代科技權力最深刻、最迫切的剖析。
An eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping out planet, from an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and OpenAI
When longtime AI expert and 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, it was meant, its leader Sam Altman told us, to act as a check against more purely market forces.
But the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that it requires an unprecedented amount of proprietary resources: the ‘compute’ power of scarce high-end chips, the sheer volume of data that needs to be amassed at scale, the humans on the ground ‘cleaning it up’ for sweatshop wages throughout the Global South, and a truly alarming spike in the need for energy and water underlying everything. We have entered a new, ominous age of empire with OpenAI setting a breakneck pace, as a small group of the most valuable companies in human history try to chase it down.
In exhilarating prose and with unparalleled access to those closest to Sam Altman, Hao recounts the meteoric rise of OpenAI and shows us the sinister impact that this industry is having on society.
作者介紹
凱倫・郝是一位屢獲殊榮的記者，專注於報導人工智慧對社會的影響。她為《The Atlantic》等媒體撰稿，並擔任普立茲中心「AI聚焦系列」（AI Spotlight Series）的主持人。
過去，她曾是《華爾街日報》的科技記者，以及《MIT科技評論》的人工智慧資深編輯。她因報導深入、視角銳利，獲得多項榮譽，包括美國國家雜誌獎頒發給30歲以下記者的獎項。
凱倫擁有麻省理工學院（MIT）機械工程學士學位，結合工程背景與調查新聞實力，使她成為當代最具影響力的AI新聞觀察者之一。
About the Author
Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering the impacts of artificial intelligence on society. She writes for publications including The Atlantic and leads the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series. She was formerly a tech reporter for the Wall Street Journal and a senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review. She has received numerous accolades for her coverage, including an American National Magazine Award for Journalists Under 30. She received her B.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT.
各界推薦
「一部引人入勝的新作，描寫爭奪AI主導權的戰場……緊張、扣人心弦。」
《金融時報》（Financial Times）Richard Waters：
「作為資深AI記者，郝對OpenAI發展的細節紀錄毫不留情，直擊核心。」
彭博專欄作家 Parmy Olson：《Supremacy》作者：
「這是一部揭露OpenAI與ChatGPT崛起過程中權力與妥協的史詩級報導。書中充滿黑暗而荒謬的細節，顯示AI產業是如何在祕密與可疑意識形態推動下迅速擴張。本書是一記警鐘：當原本追求烏托邦的開發者迷失於建立帝國的競賽中，代價是我們全體的未來。」
2024年諾貝爾經濟學獎得主 Daron Acemoglu：
「我們的生活即將被人工智慧重塑——更準確地說，是被少數幾家由自信滿滿的領導人掌控的企業重塑。若你曾懷疑這是否無可避免，或者想知道在AI時代我們是否還能保有民主，那你一定要讀這本書！」
Dr. Joy Buolamwini，《Unmasking AI》作者：
「揭露性極強、資料詳實且引人入勝的敘事展現了凱倫・郝為何是當今最重要的AI記者之一。《AI帝國》帶領我們看見矽谷AI繁榮背後的人力與環境成本：從智利的數據中心到肯亞的資料標註工人。這本書不僅是預警，也讓我們看見一條更開放、低耗能的替代之路。」
Roger McNamee，《Zucked》作者：
「郝以她出色的書寫紀錄下AI與OpenAI的集體狂熱：科學家、騙子與野心家構成了一場全球迷戀的假象，而這場技術革命的實際危害已無所不在、好處尚未證實。當相關訴訟來臨時，這本書可能會成為原告方的關鍵證據。」
Shoshana Zuboff，《監控資本主義時代》作者：
「《AI帝國》是一部英勇之作。凱倫・郝不畏艱難，穿越重重阻礙抵達OpenAI的核心，為公眾帶來這部極為重要的教育性作品。她是一位深具洞察的記者，揭示了矽谷AI奇觀的歷史意義與社會後果。若你相信我們的數位未來握在『聰明人』手中就會安全，那你一定要讀這本書，重新思考。」
Jasmine Vojdani，《Vulture》：
「驚人的揭露與高度調查……這是關於OpenAI與ChatGPT誕生歷程與未來風險的必讀紀實。」
Review
A gripping new account of the battle for AI supremacy… tense and absorbing -- Emine Saner ― Guardian
A veteran AI reporter, Hao’s more detailed account of OpenAI’s progress... doesn't pull any punches -- Richard Waters ― Financial Times
An epic exposé that pulls back the curtain on the egos and uneasy compromises behind the rise of OpenAI and ChatGPT. It's full of dark details, some of them bordering on absurd, that shows how much of the AI boom runs on secrecy and is driven by questionable ideologies. This book serves as a warning about the price we all pay when AI builders who dreamed of utopia got swept up in a race to build empires instead -- Parmy Olson, Bloomberg columnist and author of Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World
Our lives are about to be remade by artificial intelligence―or to be more accurate, by a few companies run by a few very self-confident people. If you ever wondered whether all of this is inevitable, whether to believe all the promises of tech luminaries, whether we could save a little bit of our democracy in the age of AI, then read this book! -- Daron Acemoglu, recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
With devastating revelations, deep insider research, and delightful page-turning delivery, Karen Hao shows us why she is one of the foremost tech journalists covering AI. From data centers in Chile to data workers in Kenya, Empire of AI reveals the hidden human and environmental costs behind AI products that have triggered a race for land, water, and cheap labor to cement power in the hands of a few. Empire of AI is the warning we need―just as more open and less energy-intensive alternatives reveal that a different AI future is possible and achievable -- Dr. Joy Buolamwini, author of Unmasking AI
In her brilliant book, Empire of AI, Karen Hao chronicles the mania surrounding artificial intelligence and OpenAI. With a cast of scientists, scammers, and scoundrels, Empire of AI documents the hype campaign that caused the world to fall in love with a technology whose immediate harms are legion and benefits remain unproved. When litigation comes, this book may find a second life as Exhibit A for the plaintiffs -- Roger McNamee, author of Zucked
Empire of AI is a heroic work. Karen Hao braved many obstacles with gritty determination as she traveled the yellow brick road to the Oz of the storied corporation OpenAI to bring us this work of essential public education. Hao is a gifted journalist and a deep thinker who reveals the historical significance and societal consequences of Silicon Valley’s AI spectacle, even as she meticulously documents a company and its leader hellbent on getting there first with no idea where they are going. If you think the digital future is safe in the hands of brilliant scientists, smart investors, and earnest political leaders, read this book and think again -- Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Startling and intensely researched . . . an essential account of how OpenAI and ChatGPT came to be and the catastrophic places they will likely take us -- Jasmine Vojdani ― Vulture
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