Karen Hao

They can extract and exploit and extract and exploit and get more value than what they offer.

Whereas typical businesses, there is a fair exchange.

You buy a service, you feel like you got the same amount of value as the service that you provided.

But for these data annotation workers, for example, they do not feel in any way that they're being paid the same value that they provide to these companies.

So that's like, for me, the North Star is like, we should be pushing back and holding accountable these companies when they operate in an imperial way.

And that's what we've seen with all of these people that are now literally protesting in the streets against data centers and having an enormous effect, by the way, actually stalling data center projects and also capitalizing.

completely banning data centers from being developed in their localities.

We're seeing that with artists and writers that are suing these companies for intellectual property infringement and creating a huge public conversation about what is it that we actually, how do we actually want to protect our intellectual property?

It's like, three weeks ago, I met

Megan Garcia, who is the mother of Sewell Setzer III, who is the 14-year-old who died by suicide after being sexually groomed by a character he has trapped on.

And she, when that happened...

I mean, obviously was incredibly devastated by what had happened to her son.

She also decided to do something about it.

She sued the companies and that lawsuit then sparked many other parents and families who were actually experiencing similar things to sue these companies as well.

That has created an enormous public conversation about what these companies are actually doing when they exploit and they extract.

What is the cost to the lives of people around the world, including children?

When I was writing the book, the only discourse that was happening was, this is the best thing since sliced bread.

Because of all of the actions of these people, like saying when they're not happy with the things that these companies are doing, we now have 80% of Americans that want to regulate this industry.

And so I would say to people...

Think about all the ways that your life intersects with the resources that the air industry needs to perpetuate what they do.