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Kelsey Piper

Kelsey Piper

Contributing editor

Kelsey Piper is a contributing editor 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

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In seven years, here’s what I got right and what I missedIn seven years, here’s what I got right and what I missed
Future Perfect

What journalism can change — and what it can’t.

By Kelsey Piper
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We don’t know how many people will die because of Trump’s USAID cutsWe don’t know how many people will die because of Trump’s USAID cuts
Future Perfect

The chaos of Trump’s global health cuts make the human toll near-impossible to calculate. That’s by design.

By Kelsey Piper
Future Perfect
Top AI engineers are being offered $100 million by companies like Meta. But there’s a giant catch.Top AI engineers are being offered $100 million by companies like Meta. But there’s a giant catch.
Future Perfect

You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you?

By Kelsey Piper
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Grok’s MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to comeGrok’s MechaHitler disaster is a preview of AI disasters to come
Future Perfect

Musk trained Grok to be right-wing. We’re lucky he wasn’t more subtle.

By Kelsey Piper
Future Perfect
A million kids won’t live to kindergarten because of this disastrous decisionA million kids won’t live to kindergarten because of this disastrous decision
Future Perfect

The world’s war on child death was going well. Then RFK Jr. came along.

By Kelsey Piper
Future Perfect
AI doesn’t have to reason to take your jobAI doesn’t have to reason to take your job
Future Perfect

Academia has gotten philosophical about AI. But they should focus more on what it can do.

By Kelsey Piper
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What drove the tech right’s — and Elon Musk’s — big, failed bet on TrumpWhat drove the tech right’s — and Elon Musk’s — big, failed bet on Trump
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The tech right saw in Trump what they wanted to see, but it wasn’t actually there

By Kelsey Piper
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AI can now stalk you with just a single vacation photoAI can now stalk you with just a single vacation photo
Future Perfect

Artificial intelligence could weaponize the data we’ve been sharing for decades.

By Kelsey Piper
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Harvard just fired a tenured professor for the first time in 80 years. Good.Harvard just fired a tenured professor for the first time in 80 years. Good.
Future Perfect

A step forward in academia’s existential fight against scientific fraud.

By Kelsey Piper
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One chilling forecast of our AI future is getting wide attention. How realistic is it?One chilling forecast of our AI future is getting wide attention. How realistic is it?
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Rapid changes from AI may be coming far faster than you imagine.

By Kelsey Piper