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
The dark side of the Abundance call for a strong government that can build
Our Covid mistakes did lasting damage. No one wants to talk about it.
But can the rest of us trust it?
All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.
X wanted Grok to tell it straight. They didn’t like the result.
It’s a vital moment for AI policy. DOGE’s mass firings could trash vital expertise.
OpenAI’s conversion to for-profit is sketchy. Musk’s $97 billion offer shows why.
“Can I leave the country, and how can I leave the country?”
Making people poorer is still bad — regardless of party.
What the hot new Chinese AI product means — and what it doesn’t.