Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2026-03-26
Books mentioned on AI Whistleblower: We Are Being Gaslit By The AI Companies! They’re Hiding The Truth About AI
The truth about Sam Altman. AI Critic Karen Hao reveals what 90 OpenAI employees told her.
Steven Bartlett discussed Empire of AI by Karen Hao.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Empire of AI
Empire of AI by Karen Hao is an investigative non-fiction book that explores the human and material costs behind the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and Sam Altman's OpenAI.
Discussed“Karen, how you've written this book in front of me here called Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Alman's Open AI. I guess my first question is what is the research and the journey you went on in order to write this book we're going to talk about”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Empire of AI
“And so I talk about the case of Dr. Timmy Gabru in my book who was the ethical AI team co-lead at Google when she was literally hired to critique the types of AI systems that Google was building.”