The hidden costs of AI: Labour, data, and the race to dominate
Artificial intelligence is being sold to us as the future.
Faster, smarter, more efficient, maybe even world changing.
But as a handful of tech companies race to build ever more powerful AI, there are growing questions about secrecy, exploitation, and the extraordinary concentration of power behind the scenes.
Journalist Karen Hao has spent years reporting on OpenAI and the global AI industry, and in her book Empire of AI, she argues this isn’t just a story about technology, it’s a story about ideology, labour, resources, and control.
Today on The Front Page, Karen Hao joins us to…
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