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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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You can get unfathomably rich building AI. Should you?


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


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


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


The tech right saw in Trump what they wanted to see, but it wasn’t actually there


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


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