The Financial Times and Schroders today announced that Parmy Olsonis the winner of the 2024 Business Book of the Year Award for Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World, published by Macmillan Business (UK), St. Martin’s Press (US). Supremacy is the behind-the-scenes story of the personal and commercial battle to establish dominance in artificial intelligence.
Now in its twentieth year, the Award recognises a work which provides the ‘most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues’. It was awarded today to the winner at a ceremony at The Peninsula London, hosted by the Editor of the Financial Times and chair of the panel of judges, Roula Khalaf, Schroders Group Chief Executive Peter Harrison and Nikkei Inc. Managing Director, Daisuke Arakawa. The keynote speaker at the event was Sharon White, Former Chairman, John Lewis Partnership.
Supremacysaw off strong competition from a shortlist of titles with subjects ranging from the quest to achieve better economic growth, the purpose of technology, the evolution of the corporation, and the impact of tribal instincts and improving longevity. Parmy will receive a prize of £30,000, with £10,000 going to each of the five runners-up.
Roula Khalaf, Editor, Financial Times said: “Hassabis and Sam Altman are two of today’s most influential entrepreneurs. In her deeply reported account, Parmy Olson brilliantly frames the development of artificial intelligence as a thrilling race to master the technology, build a business, and dominate the technological future.”
Schroders Outgoing Group Chief Executive Peter Harrison said: “This was an evenly matched shortlist of very high quality but Supremacy is a timely and compelling winner, which provides deep insights into the defining technology of our age that are impossible to find elsewhere.”
The judging panel, chaired by Roula Khalaf, comprises:
- Mimi Alemayehou, Founder and Managing Partner, Semai Ventures LLC
- Daisuke Arakawa, Managing Director, Nikkei Inc.
- Mitchell Baker, Executive Chair of the Board, Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee, Mozilla Corporation
- Sherry Coutu, Entrepreneur, Angel Investor
- Mohamed El-Erian, President, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, and Adviser, Allianz and Gramercy
- Peter Harrison, Outgoing Group Chief Executive, Schroders
- James Kondo, Chairman, International House of Japan
- Randall Kroszner, Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics, University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business
- Shriti Vadera, Chair, Prudential Plc and Royal Shakespeare Company