# Karen Hao

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Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)

It is fair to say Aarthi Vadde's wonderful new book, We The Platform, demostrates "how literature changes our perspective on the internet." But you also need to add that it "respond[s] to decline narratives about literature and literary study and to offer an alternative to prevailing sense of defea…

Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)

It is fair to say Aarthi Vadde's wonderful new book, We The Platform, demostrates "how literature changes our perspective on the internet." But you also need to add that it "respond[s] to decline narratives about literature and literary study and to offer an alternative to prevailing sense of defea…

Ep.# 188: AI Trends for 2026, Gemini 3 Flash, AI World Models & Are AI Job Losses Overblown?

Is 2026 the year society finally pushes back against artificial intelligence? Join us as we explore the immediate future of AGI, analyzing Demis Hassabis’s warning of a shift ten times larger than the Industrial Revolution and Shane Legg’s prediction of human-level intelligence by 2028. We break d…

The AI Empire | Karen Hao on Power, Data and the Wrong Future

The AI Empire | Karen Hao on Power, Data and the Wrong Future Artificial intelligence is transforming how we work, learn and communicate. But who is really benefiting from the AI boom — and who is paying the price? Journalist and Empire of AI author Karen Hao argues that today’s most powerful AI co…

Aarthi Vadde has a Platform (JP)

It is fair to say Aarthi Vadde's wonderful new book, We The Platform, demostrates "how literature changes our perspective on the internet." But you also need to add that it "respond[s] to decline narratives about literature and literary study and to offer an alternative to prevailing sense of defea…

How to take criticism without changing who you are

You already know what you think. The hard part is saying it out loud, and staying yourself once you have. You'll learn: How to take harsh feedback without swallowing the cruelty that came with it Two questions to ask before you say yes to a stage, a client or a room How to think straight for someo…

Hyperscale: Paris Marx on the Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires

“Scale” is such a loaded word. In Silicon Valley, it’s the thing-in-itself, the holy grail. So what happens if you scale up “scale”? You accelerate to Hyperscale, the title of a new book by the big tech critic Paris Marx, who has turned Silicon Valley’s holy grail against itself. So what, exactly, …

Can AI really write? We asked an award-winning author

"AI is a very poor writer," says celebrated author, hip-hop historian, and Bruce Lee biographer Jeff Chang. While large language models can mirror sentence structures or copy paragraphs, Chang argues that the raw output is garbage. He also shares insights from his interview with legendary hip-hop…

Americano: what does Sam Altman want?

Freddy Gray speaks to writer and author Karen Hao, whose new book Empire of AI looks at a new, ominous age of empire with OpenAI. On the podcast they discuss the impacts of artificial intelligence on society and democracy and how Open AI founder Sam Altman has become a controversial figure.  Ho…

DMA#40 Recap: The J. Jonah Jameson Editor, Surviving the Tech Deluge, and the Rules of Timeboxing with Jeremy Caplan

When I first sat down to chat with Jeremy Caplan about artificial intelligence and digital productivity tools, I genuinely did not think we would end up talking about him playing the violin. I certainly did not expect the conversation to pivot into a deep, philosophical appreciation for the irrepla…