InSPIRE

REGISTER HERE: https://stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/event/2025/journalist-and-author-karen-hao

As Artificial Intelligence claims increasing influence over our lives, it's easy to believe AI's creeping dominance is inevitable. But is it?

Join award-winning journalist Karen Hao and Patrick Barry, clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan Law School, for an eye-opening discussion on Hao’s best-selling book, “Empire of AI.”

As the first reporter to gain extensive access to OpenAI when its founder, Sam Altman, promoted it as an altruistic research non-profit, Hao has followed the company’s meteoric rise. Drawing on seven years of reporting across five continents, Hao sheds light on the hidden impacts of AI —  from the exploitation of data workers in the Global South to the immense environmental costs of its energy and water consumption. Discover whose priorities are being advanced, whose voices are overlooked, and how we can work together to build a more equitable future for the world with AI.

“Empire of AI” will be available for purchase from BookSweet at the event. The author will stay for a short book signing after the program.