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SUMMARY:Night Owl Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion of Empire of AI by Karen Hao. 
 \n\nAn eye-opening account of the tech arms race shaping our planet\, from 
 an award-winning journalist and AI insider to the world of Sam Altman and 
 OpenAI.\n\nWhen 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.\n\nBut the core truth of this massively disruptive sector is that 
 it requires an unprecedented amount of proprietary 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.\n\nIn 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.\n\nFor 
 adults ages 18 and up. Registration opens October 22. Please call the 
 Thomas Branch at 219-926-7696 for book availability and registration.
LOCATION:Boardroom\, Thomas Branch
ORGANIZER;CN="Amanda Fack":MAILTO:amanda@wpl.lib.in.us
CATEGORIES:Adult Program, Book Review/Discussion
CONTACT;CN="Amanda Fack":MAILTO:amanda@wpl.lib.in.us
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