Sunday, 29 March, 2026
Karen Hao Warns: AGI Evangelism Fuels an “Empire of AI” Built on Belief
By Isha
Karen Hao critiques the AGI movement—led by OpenAI—as functioning like an empire driven by religious belief in its grand mission to benefit all humanity. She argues that this zeal has prioritized speed over safety, efficiency, and integrity, pushing massive compute and data use while neglecting real harms (jobs lost, environmental costs, worker exploitation) and overshadowing smaller-scale, high-impact projects like AlphaFold.
Read full story at TechCrunch