Hegemony. AI, ChatGPT, and the race that will change the world

Hegemony: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World is a non-fiction book by tech reporter and generative AI researcher Parmy Olson. The author provides a detailed account of the key figures who led the AI revolution and set the agenda for technological progress.

This piece of investigative journalism sheds light on the business story behind ChatGPT—a chatbot powered by general artificial intelligence that seemed to emerge out of nowhere in the fall of 2022. That is how users perceived it. However, behind the scenes, a fierce corporate rivalry for technological supremacy had long been underway between the CEOs of leading AI companies, Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis. Parmy Olson exposes the ego-driven nature of the struggle for dominance in the artificial intelligence industry, which has already impacted the path of our civilization.