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Most Replayed Moment: How AI Companies Are Gaslighting You - Karen Hao

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · DOAC

Oct 23, 2026 · 24 min

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What if the biggest risk from AI isn’t the technology itself - but who controls it?

Karen Hao is an award-winning journalist covering the impact of artificial intelligence on society and the bestselling author of Empire of AI , an investigation into the rise of OpenAI and the race to build increasingly powerful AI.

In this moment, Karen Hao examines the assumptions driving the race towards AGI and asks why building technology that can replicate human capabilities became the goal in the first place. She explores the enormous resources behind that ambition, and the relationship between AI…

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