5/20 — Book Launch & Discussion: “The Optimist | Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future”

Tuesday, May 20 at 7pm at Irvington Theater | Get Directions →

Join Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey and New York Times deputy investigations editor David Enrich in conversation for the launch of Hagey’s highly anticipated new book: “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.”

From an acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter comes the first biography of Sam Altman, the enigmatic leader of the AI revolution, charting his ascent within the tech world as well as his ambitions for this powerful new technology. Read more about the book here, or pre-order your copy from Transom Bookshop today and pick it up at the launch/discussion!

“An exemplary blend of biography, financial technology reportage, and futurology.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review

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David Enrich is deputy investigations editor at The New York Times. He is the bestselling author of four books, most recently "Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful." Before joining The Times in 2017, he spent a decade at The Wall Street Journal in New York and London.

Keach Hagey is a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. The author of “The King of Content: Sumner Redstone’s Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire,” she lives in Irvington, NY.