Kelsey Piper
Senior Writer
Kelsey Piper is a senior writer at Future Perfect, Vox’s effective-altruism-inspired section on the world’s biggest challenges. She explores wide-ranging topics from climate change to artificial intelligence, from vaccine development to factory farms. She’s interested in how to bring prosperity to everyone on Earth, how we fund and conduct science, how to make emerging technologies go well, and how to make sense of the world in confusing, uncertain, and fast-moving times. She writes the Future Perfect newsletter, which you can subscribe to here.
She occasionally tweets at @kelseytuoc and occasionally writes for the quarterly magazine Asterisk.
If you have story ideas, questions, tips, or other info relevant to her work, you can email kelsey.piper@vox.com. She can also accept confidential tips on Signal at 303-261-2769.
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Latest articles by Kelsey Piper
California legislator Scott Wiener on why the home of the AI industry is the right place to regulate it.
Prediction markets have closely tracked Biden’s fate, but they have a long way to go as reliable indicators.
Why exponential growth can lead us to underestimate some technologies and overestimate others.
Declining birth rates do matter, but we need to approach them thoughtfully.
Why some tech leaders are so worried about a California AI safety bill.
Both skeptics and boosters are too sure of themselves.
Has Sam Altman told the truth about OpenAI’s NDA scandal?
Why is OpenAI’s superalignment team imploding?
New regulations are a win for safe synthetic DNA.
A pandemic response that amounts to hoping and praying isn’t nearly enough.