---
name: "Karen Hao"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/karen-hao"
fi1m_id: "karen-hao"
imdb_id: "nm12956918"
tmdb_id: 5682134
wikidata_id: "Q106111546"
roles: []
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-21T02:11:41.045432+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Karen Hao

## Identity

Karen Hao

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/karen-hao
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** karen-hao
- **IMDb ID:** nm12956918
- **TMDB ID:** 5682134
- **Wikidata ID:** Q106111546
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106111546, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12956918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5682134

Actor.

## Details

- **Also known as:** 郝珂灵
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106111546, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12956918/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5682134

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist*](https://film.one/film/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist.md) (56)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Karen Hao is an American journalist and author specialising in artificial intelligence, technology ethics and the social impact of AI. She has reported for MIT Technology Review, where she was senior AI editor, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic, and previously worked as a tech reporter and data scientist at Quartz.

Hao wrote the 2025 book Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, which became a New York Times bestseller. She appeared as herself, credited as AI Reporter, in the 2026 documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, karendhao.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist* (2026), Fi1m 56, as self — [page](https://film.one/film/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist.md)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/karen-hao