This piece examines the hidden costs of AI development in New Zealand and globally, framing large-scale generative AI as an imperial force that exploits data, labor, and resources while masking its profit-driven, power-concentrating motives.
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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 raised to build ever more powerful AI, there are growing questions about secrecy, exploitation, and the extraordinary concentration of power behind the scenes. Journalist Karen Howe has spent years reporting on open AI and the global AI industry. And in her book, Empire of AI, she argues, this isn't just a story about technology. It's a story about ideology, labor, resources, and control. Today on the front page, Karen Howe joins us to unpack the rise of AI and the real cost of the AI arms race.
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