Anita Anand

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5,917 appearances 33 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Empire: World History · 382. Empire of AI: Karen Hao On Today’s Hidden Colonialism (Ep 2) · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, the weirdness is, I know his father died of a heart attack when he was very young, you know, sort of just, I think, 68 odd he was. voice-verified

And Sam decides to turn his father's ashes into diamonds. voice-verified

Now, that may be a story that people are familiar with. voice-verified

And for him, that's a symbol of, you know, sort of an enormous closeness, a way to process loss and grief and how, you know, much of it. voice-verified

But there is a dark story running and, you know, we should be careful about it. voice-verified

But his younger sister has accused him of abuse, you know, just saying that he's an abusive man. voice-verified

He's counter suing. voice-verified

So we maybe leave it at that. voice-verified

But it does sort of go along with the fact that all of these people, all of these sort of emperors of tech, you know, the broligarchy, they are very anxious to put out very wholesome stories about themselves. voice-verified

Whereas, you know, voice-verified

Things are complicated. voice-verified

And in this case, in this story, very complicated. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

And anthropic, we should say, for anyone who is going, well, who are they? voice-verified

I mean, they're behind things like Claude, for example. voice-verified

Sort of enormously successful AI that's out there. voice-verified

And the story of Silicon Valley is built on disgruntled workers walking out and making their own thing. voice-verified

Okay, let's just take a break there, Karen. voice-verified

And when we come back, I'd really love to talk to you about the parallels of quasi-religious missions, if I can put it that way, of AI companies and how they echo the civilizing missions of historical empires. voice-verified

Welcome back, Karen. voice-verified

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