Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao
The Editors
created: July 9, 2025, 9:10 a.m. | updated: July 15, 2025, 9:50 a.m.
And the fourth and final feature is that empires always engage in this aggressive race rhetoric, where there are good empires and evil empires.
And if the evil empire gets the technology first, humanity goes to hell.
But if the good empire gets the technology first, they’ll civilize the world, and humanity gets to go to heaven.
I mean, you talk about the evil empire.
What happens if the evil empire gets it first?
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