“For me, it came through interviews with the communities most affected by AI’s supply chain,” Hao told Wired. “The science and research have been distorted by what serves corporate interests, not the public interest,” Hao told Wired. Power, Data, Water: Latin America’s Front Row SeatIf AI conjures images of server racks and sleek campuses, Hao suggests flipping the view: stand by the mine gate, the substation, the reservoir. Sam Altman, in her telling, is a virtuoso of soft power: “He accumulates power through persuasion, not coercion,” Hao told Wired. “I see the dynamic between OpenAI and the Trump administration as a contemporary echo,” she told Wired.