# Event Details - **Event Name**: An Evening with Karen Hao - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 21 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm – Tue, 21 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: NYT-bestselling author Karen Hao, discusses EMPIRE OF AI with new UVA faculty Seth Lewis and DTD Lab co-lead Mona SloaneAbout this EventUVA’s Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, The Sloane Lab, and the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences present “An Evening with Karen Hao” at Old Cabell Hall. This free event is open to the public - please reserve your seats by registering.In Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI (Penguin Press, 2025), Karen Hao, a leading tech journalist and frequent contributor to The Atlantic, tells the behind-the-scenes story of how a cadre of the most powerful companies in human history is reshaping the world in its image. The first journalist to ever profile OpenAI, Karen's insight has been called “excellent and deeply reported” by The New York Times. Empire of AI is a page-turning thriller, an “essential work of public education” (Shoshanna Zuboff), and a revelatory portrait of the people controlling AI technology. It is the jaw-dropping story of ambition and ego, hype and speculation, plunder and destruction, politics and labor, and, of course, money and power—a brilliant and deeply necessary look at the industry defining our era, and what the future holds.Karen was formerly a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, covering American and Chinese tech companies, and a senior editor for AI at MIT Technology Review. Her work has been cited by Congress, featured in university curriculums, and remade into museum exhibits. She has won numerous accolades, including an American Humanist Media Award and a National Magazine Award for Journalists Under 30. Karen also sits on the AI advisory board of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and leads the Pulitzer Center's AI Spotlight Series, which trains journalists around the world on how to cover artificial intelligence. Prior to journalism, she was an application engineer at the first startup to spin out of Google, and she received a B.S. in mechanical engineering and minor in energy studies from MIT., Buckner Clay Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will introduce the event. Ms. Hao’s book lecture will be followed by a conversation with DTD faculty co-lead Assistant Professor of Data Science and Media Studies and incoming Elcan Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Media Studies .Tickets are free; please register to reserve a seat.Paid parking is available at the Central Grounds parking garage. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/charlottesville/an-evening-with-karen-hao/100001553388459699 - **Event Categories**: art, workshops, literary-art, artificial-intelligence, business - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fan-evening-with-karen-hao-tickets-1553388459699 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Charlottesville - **state**: VA - **country**: United States - **location**: Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia - **lat**: 38.0328595 - **long**: -78.50486149999999 - **full address**: Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, 112 Old Cabell Hall, Charlottesville, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy (DTD) Lab (https://allevents.in/org/uvas-digital-technology-for-democracy-dtd-lab/26635714) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/914d4662620119f154891786b0ae7d50409fcd3dde178d3dc0db15f4b5b3586c-rimg-w1200-h600-dccbf055-gmir.jpg?v=1757272892 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/e60ba0ec601a29f8c5acb56d3fc9a93f088c030e08887b2ba55a2ec74ba4f691-rimg-w400-h400-dccbf055-gmir.jpg?v=1757272891 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Tue, 21 Oct, 2025 at 06:30 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, 112 Old Cabell Hall, Charlottesville, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy (DTD) Lab - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, workshops, literary-art, artificial-intelligence, business - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about An Evening with Karen Hao ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "An Evening with Karen Hao", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/914d4662620119f154891786b0ae7d50409fcd3dde178d3dc0db15f4b5b3586c-rimg-w1200-h600-dccbf055-gmir.jpg?v=1757272892", "startDate": "2025-10-21", "endDate": "2025-10-21", "url": "https://allevents.in/charlottesville/an-evening-with-karen-hao/100001553388459699", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "112 Old Cabell Hall", "postalCode": "22903", "addressLocality": "Charlottesville", "addressRegion": "VA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "38.0328595", "longitude": "-78.50486149999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "NYT-bestselling author Karen Hao, discusses EMPIRE OF AI with new UVA faculty Seth Lewis and DTD Lab co-lead Mona Sloane", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "2025-10-21", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/charlottesville/an-evening-with-karen-hao/100001553388459699" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/charlottesville/an-evening-with-karen-hao/100001553388459699", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "UVAs Digital Technology for Democracy (DTD) Lab", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/uvas-digital-technology-for-democracy-dtd-lab/26635714", "description": "The Digital Technology for Democracy Lab is a collaboration across the University of Virginia that explores the intersections of democracy and digital technology, including how rapidly evolving digital technologies can challenge but also fortify democratic institutions and practices. 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