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.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Empire of AI
Empire of AI by Karen Hao is a critically acclaimed investigative work that explores the hidden human and material inputs, dreams, and nightmares behind Sam Altman's OpenAI and the broader artificial intelligence boom.
Recommended“Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Alman's Open AI by Karen How. I'll link it below for anyone that wants to read this book. I highly recommend you do. It's a New York Times bestseller for good reason.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book 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.”