OpenAI and the Quasi-Religious Push for Artificial Intelligence

4 Jul 2025 Latest Shows

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de... As part of our July Fourth special broadcast, we continue our extended interview with Karen Hao, author of Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI. The book documents the rise of OpenAI and how the AI industry is leading to a new form of colonialism. "One of the things that you really have to understand about AI development today is that there are what I call quasi-religious movements that have developed within Silicon Valley," says Hao. 

"The concept of artificial general intelligence is not one that's scientifically grounded."

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