Chelsea DanielsThe Front Page podcast host·NZ Herald·15 May, 2026 05:00 AM3 mins to readAuthor and journalist Karen Hao speaks to The Front Page about her book Empire of AI and the real cost of the AI arms race.Artificial intelligence is being sold to us as the future.Faster, smarter, more efficient, maybe even world-changing.But as a handful of tech companies race to build ever more powerful AI, there are growing questions about secrecy, exploitation, and the concentration of power behind the scenes.
The real story of AI isn't innovation. It's power.
Karen Hao says tech giants build AI empires by extracting global resources.
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