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📚 Book Club: AI was supposed to save humanity. Big Tech took the keys
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- Ai Experience [in english]
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- Aug 2, 2026
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- 913
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Summary
In this episode of the AI Experience Book Club , Jessica looks at Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World , by Parmy Olson , published in September 2024 by St. Martin’s Press. The book tells the story of the race toward artificial general intelligence through two central figures: Sam Altman, associated with OpenAI, and Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind. But beyond the story of founders, models, and technical breakthroughs, Supremacy raises a deeper question: who really controls the future of AI? In this episode, we explore the original promise of AI as a technology meant to serve humanity, the growing dependence on Google and Microsoft, the central role of computing power, the tension between ethics and competition, and the risk that AI could deepen new divides in the workplace. An episode for anyone who wants to understand why AI is not just a technology to adopt, but an infrastructure of power we need to question. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.