Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The same language European colonizers used to justify global conquest is now being used by AI companies to justify consuming the world's resources.

In this clip, Karen Hao, Exclusive Lavin Speaker and author of the instant NYT bestselling book "Empire of AI," draws striking parallels between today's AI companies and historical empires. She explains how these new tech giants are "literally land-grabbing" for data centers, exploiting enormous amounts of labor, and using the same justification language that "European empires of the past used to justify their global conquest." The concentration of capital, resources, and knowledge in AI companies represents something unprecedented in industry—but not in history.

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