Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI performing Shakespeare and music for

performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors

Sophie is excited to discover a message waiting for her in the Bridegroom's Oak from a mysterious suitor

and where they've been living all this time

This lucid tale of a sleepy town's annual lottery--and the monstrous desires it awakens--endures as an essential classic of American fiction

then eliminating everything that is not

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI performing Shakespeare and music forAn Instant New York Times Bestseller "Excellent and deeply reported." Tim Wu, The New York Times "Startling and intensely researched . . . an essential account of how OpenAI and ChatGPT came to be and the catastrophic places they will likely take us." Vulture "Hao's reporting inside OpenAI is exceptional, and she's persuasive in her argument that the public should focus less on A. I.'s putative 'sentience' and more on its implications for labor and