Book review of 'Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI' by Karen Hao

In my AI Book Club, we recently read Empire of AI: Dreams and nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI, by Karen Hao. In this post, I'll briefly share some of my reactions to the book. The main focus in my review is to analyze Hao's treatment of the mission-driven ideology around AGI that explains many of the motivations for the workers at OpenAI and similar AI companies.