Hello bookworms!
We are happy to announce that we have completed our first book for the DRUUMM NonFiction Book Club Group! Sound the alarm!
We have decided on our second book to read: Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao. This book is about more than one company, it is a look at the entire AI atmosphere we find ourselves unavoidably entrenched in today. Hao unveils the jaw dropping formation of a new AI religion amongst the top tech-CEOs and how AI has opened up a new frontier in global exploitation.
At our first meeting discussing this book, we will discuss Part I. This is pages 1 to 138 in the physical hardcover copy.
We are excited to read such a new and groundbreaking book on the hot button issue of this decade. Please join us for this incredibly thrilling journey into analyzing the forces shaping our modern world. Hope to see you there!
All DRUUMM Book Club groups are for members of DRUUMM only. If you would like to invite a friend to join the book discussion, make sure they are registered with DRUUMM. Send a message to devin@druumm.org if you ever need to contact the leader of this book group.
"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."
See you on the page,
DRUUMM Book Club
