Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAINew · Nonfiction, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
2025 · 501 pages · Nonfiction
53
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★ 4.02 on Goodreads · 17K ratings
≈ 13 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (2025). 4.02★ from 17K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
53Must-Read Score
- Critics44 out of 100 · counts 35%+18
- Readers41 out of 100 · counts 50%+23
- Buzz72 out of 100 · counts 15%+12
Where it ranks
- #38 of the 100 science and ideas books we rank
- #168 of the 730 new books we rank
- #449 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- NBCC Award (Nonfiction) winner (2025)
Reads as
Practical, Thought-provoking
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