OpenAI’s rise isn’t just a business story — it’s an ideological one. On Equity, Karen Hao, author of Empire AI, explores how the cult of AGI has fueled a billion-dollar race, justified massive spending on compute and data, and blurred the line between mission and profit.
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Karen Hao on the Empire of AI, AGI evangelists, and the cost of belief
September 14, 2025