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DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out. If you are interested in attending\, we
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 . \n\n \n\nAI is upending the planet in real time\, and its path of unchec
 ked development threatens to erode democracy and return us to an age of em
 pire\, where a small group of companies dictates our future. It doesn’t 
 have to be this way\, says Karen Hao\, a Silicon Valley engineer-turned-aw
 ard-winning-journalist. She is the featured speaker at this Center for Bus
 iness Ethics event on March 5\, 2026\, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m.. Following the ta
 lk\, Karen Hao will sign copies of her book - available for sale from Elli
 ott Bay Books - in the PACCAR Atrium.\n\n \n\nHao’s epic and urgent book
  Empire of AI—an instant New York Times bestseller called a “heroic wo
 rk” by Shoshana Zuboff (The Age of Surveillance Capitalism)—is the cul
 mination of her years of insider access to OpenAI and her original reporti
 ng\, spanning five continents. In captivating keynotes\, packed with hard-
 won insights\, she assembles the fullest picture yet of the most consequen
 tial tech arms race in history. She shows us just how thoroughly AI will a
 lter society\, and\, more importantly\, what role we can all play in activ
 ely shaping AI so that it benefits everyone. “The way we develop technol
 ogy is now fundamentally broken\,” Hao says. “But I truly believe that
  we can fix it.”\n\n \n\n\n“Our lives are about to be remade by artifi
 cial intelligence. If you ever wondered whether all of this is inevitable\
 , whether we could save a little bit of our democracy in the age of AI\, t
 hen read this book!” Daron Acemoglu\, Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in 
 Economic Sciences\n\n \n\n\nCalled “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 intel
 ligence.\n\n\nIn Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s Ope
 nAI (Penguin Press\, 2025)\, Hao\, the first journalist to ever profile Op
 enAI\, tells the behind-the-scenes story of how a cadre of the most powerf
 ul companies in human history is reshaping the world in its image. “Exce
 llent and deeply reported” (The New York Times)\, Empire of AI is a page
 -turning thriller\, an “essential work of public education” (Zuboff)\,
  and a revelatory portrait of the people controlling this technology. It i
 s the jaw-dropping story of ambition and ego\, hype and speculation\, plun
 der and destruction\, politics and labor\, and\, of course\, money and pow
 er—a brilliant and deeply necessary look at the industry defining our er
 a\, and what the future holds.\n\n \n\nHao 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 b
 y Congress\, featured in university curriculums\, and remade into museum e
 xhibits. She has won numerous accolades\, including an American Humanist M
 edia Award and a National Magazine Award for Journalists Under 30.\n\n \n\
 nHao also sits on the AI advisory board of the Craig Newmark Graduate Scho
 ol of Journalism at CUNY. Prior to journalism\, she was an application eng
 ineer 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.\n\n \n\nT
 his event is co-sponsored by the Technology\, Innovation Law\, and Ethics 
 (TILE) Institute at Seattle University School of Law.\n\n \n\nAbout the Ce
 nter for Business Ethics\n\n \n\nEstablished in 2011\, the Center for Busi
 ness Ethics (CBE) at the Albers School of Business and Economics partners 
 with business leaders\, scholars\, faculty\, students and alumni to critic
 ally examine ethical issues in business and the role business can play in 
 advancing the common good.\n\nThe Center for Business Ethics is also the a
 dministrative home of the Northwest Ethics Network (NWEN)\, an independent
  group of ethics and compliance professionals representing over 30 Pacific
  Northwest organizations.
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SUMMARY:Empire of AI: How to Reclaim Democracy and Build a Fairer Future
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