MOCA TALKS with Karen Hao – Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI

The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) cordially invites you to a timely conversation with award-winning journalist and author Karen Hao on the promises and perils of today’s AI revolution. Drawing on years of reporting and her bestselling book Empire of AI, Hao traces OpenAI’s rapid rise from its origins as a safety-minded nonprofit to a market-driving powerhouse backed by Microsoft and examines how the global race to build ever-larger AI systems is reshaping economies, labor, and the environment.