

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Jefferson Humanities Forum - Karen Hao
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 01:00 pm
- **Event Description**: During 2024-2025, the Jefferson Humanities Forum hosts multidisciplinary scholars and thinkers to investigate the theme of Access.About this EventJefferson Humanities ForumThe Carlin Foundation Annual Lecture on Healthcare InnovationKaren Hao: Empire of AI - How Silicon Valley is Reshaping the WorldTuesday, March 10, 2026, 12:00-1:00 p.m. | Connelly Auditorium, Dorrance H. Hamilton Building, 1001 Locust StreetThis event is free and open to all. Lunch provided while supplies last.In this time of technological and political upheaval, we must re-evaluate the way that we talk about and embrace AI—especially generative models like ChatGPT, and Artificial General Intelligence. Many of the ways that society could benefit from AI—better education and healthcare, a faster transition to renewables, clean air and clean water—have nothing to do with AI models today; they are based on the machine-learning models that have come before. But Silicon Valley, with OpenAI at its helm, has woven a remarkably compelling narrative about generative AI and Artificial General Intelligence being the key to progress and abundance. This narrative cloaks what’s happening beneath the surface, says Karen Hao. In this timely talk, drawing on years of original research, she examines a growing body of evidence to ask whether AI will ever produce broad-based economic benefit. Companies like OpenAI have become empires in the full sense of the word, consolidating extraordinary power and wealth in the hands of the few. In this historic moment, she shows us, the threat of the empires of AI grows clearer by the day. A return to empire is the unraveling of democracy. But there is another viable path. Karen offers an ultimately realistic and hopeful look at how to wrestle back what we’ve already lost, in order to create a world we all want.Called “one of the foremost tech journalists covering AI” by Dr. Joy Buolamwini, Karen Hao writes for publications like The Atlantic and leads the Pulitzer Center’s AI Spotlight Series, which trains journalists around the world on how to cover artificial intelligence.In Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI (Penguin Press, 2025), Karen, the first journalist to ever profile OpenAI, 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. “Excellent and deeply reported” (The New York Times), Empire of AI is an “essential work of public education” (Zuboff), “a bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world” (TIME), and a revelatory portrait of the people controlling this 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. 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.About the Carlin Foundation Annual Lecture on Healthcare InnovationThe purpose of the Carlin Foundation Annual Lecture on Healthcare Innovation is to stimulate innovation in medicine and medical care delivery by exposing students and other attendees to notable speakers and ideas. The Foundation encourages the selection of speakers who will challenge participants to think creatively and innovatively about the difficulties and opportunities facing healthcare, looking, in particular, to experts and industries outside of healthcare.Jefferson students may count this event for credit towards the Asano Humanities &amp; Health Certificate.Learn more: Jefferson.edu/HumanitiesDuring 2025-2026, the Jefferson Humanities Forum hosts multidisciplinary scholars and thinkers to investigate the theme of Trust.Questions? Contact Kirsten Bowen, Humanities Program Coordinator, Student Affairs, at kirsten.bowen@jefferson.edu.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D28aL_5LH2Q
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- **city**: Philadelphia
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
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