Karen Hao

Speaker Bio

Karen Hao is the author of Empire of AI and an award-winning journalist covering the social impact of AI. She writes for The Atlantic and leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series. She previously worked for the Wall Street Journal and MIT Technology Review.

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