AI Whistleblower: Karen Hao Says AI Companies Are Gaslighting Us | Diary of a CEO
⚠️This is a must watch video in its entirety. Set aside two hours and watch it from start to finish. It will genuinely change how you think about AI.
AI whistleblower Karen Hao is making waves with claims that AI companies are gaslighting the public, and her conversation with Steven Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO is one of the most important interviews about artificial intelligence you’ll watch all year.
Watch the full breakdown in the video below:
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AGI Is a Marketing Scam Designed to Consolidate Power Not Save Humanity
Karen Hao spent years investigating OpenAI, interviewing over 250 people including more than 90 current and former employees, reviewing internal documents and Slack conversations, and the conclusion she arrives at in her bestselling book Empire of AI is deeply uncomfortable.
- The promise of AGI, artificial general intelligence, the idea that we are racing toward a technology that will solve all of humanity’s problems, is not being driven by scientific progress or genuine altruism. It’s being used as a narrative tool to justify consolidating trillion dollar levels of power in the hands of a small group of people.
- Sam Altman publicly criticised her book on social media. OpenAI refused to cooperate with it entirely. Karen’s point is simple: when the most powerful AI company in the world spends energy attacking a journalist’s book rather than engaging with its contents, that tells you something important about how close to the truth it gets.
What 90 OpenAI Employees Told Her Behind Closed Doors Changes Everything
The internal story of OpenAI that Karen Hao uncovered is one of an ideological war between two camps she calls the Boomers and the Doomers.
- The Boomers are the AI accelerationists who want to build as fast as possible and believe the technology is fundamentally beneficial.
- The Doomers are the safety advocates who believe the risks of powerful AI systems are being systematically downplayed and that Sam Altman was the wrong person to have his finger on the button for AGI.
The tension between both is what ultimately led to Altman being fired by the OpenAI board in November 2023, an event that shocked the entire tech world. What the surface narrative missed was the deeper story: that the people closest to the technology, the ones who understood it best, were the most afraid of where it was heading and the least confident in the leadership making the decisions. The fact that Altman was reinstalled as CEO within days after a mass employee revolt and pressure from Microsoft doesn’t resolve that tension. It just buried it.
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