Parmy Olson

Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, Author

On this episode of Words on a Wire, host Will Rose speaks with Parmy Olson, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and author of Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World (St. Martin’s Press, 2024).

A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, Olson is also the author of We Are Anonymous and a recipient of the Palo Alto Networks Cyber Security Cannon Award. Olson has been writing about artificial intelligence systems and the money behind them for seven years. Her reporting on Facebook’s $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp and the subsequent fallout resulted in two Forbes cover stories and two honourable mentions in the SABEW business journalism awards. At the Wall Street Journal she investigated companies that exaggerated their AI capabilities and was the first to report on a secret effort at Google’s top AI lab to spin out from the company in order to control the artificial super intelligence it created.