Kelsey Piper

Oakland

Senior Writer at Vox

In the reaching of a million men for a million dreams there will be miracles wrought that none of them could have directed.

Articles

Harvard just fired a tenured professor for the first time in 80 years. Good.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Kelsey Piper

In the summer of 2023, I wrote about a shocking scandal at Harvard Business School: Star professor Francesca Gino had been accused of falsifying data in four of her published papers, with whispers there was falsification in others, too. A series of posts on Data Colada, a blog that focuses on research integrity, documented Gino’s apparent brazen data manipulation, which involved clearly changing study data to better support her hypotheses.
Harvard fires Francesca Gino: What it got right in messy academic fraud fight

1 week ago | vox.com | Kelsey Piper

In the summer of 2023, I wrote about a shocking scandal at Harvard Business School: Star professor Francesca Gino had been accused of falsifying data in four of her published papers, with whispers there was falsification in others, too. A series of posts on Data Colada, a blog that focuses on research integrity, documented Gino’s apparent brazen data manipulation, which involved clearly changing study data to better support her hypotheses.
Harvard just fired a tenured professor for the first time in 80 years. Good.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Kelsey Piper

14 hours agoUS: Fourteen Arrested In Los Angeles Over Massive COVID Loan Fraud SchemeLos Angeles, United States - May 28, 2025 On May 28, fourteen individuals were arrested in connection with a major fraud case involving COVID-19 relief and small business loans. The suspects, including residents of San Fernando Valley and Glendale, were charged based on two federal criminal complaints. Authorities allege the defendants fraudulently secured more than $25 million in taxpayer-funded aid.
One chilling forecast of our AI future is getting wide attention. How realistic is it?

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Kelsey Piper

Let’s imagine for a second that the impressive pace of AI progress over the past few years continues for a few more.
One chilling forecast of our AI future is getting wide attention. How realistic is it?

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kelsey Piper

Let’s imagine for a second that the impressive pace of AI progress over the past few years continues for a few more.
How we stretched our aviation system to the brink

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Kelsey Piper

Air travel is remarkably, astonishingly safe. Every year, commercial US airlines take more than 800 million domestic passengers to their destinations, and in a typical year, zero of them are killed and very few are injured. It’s a track record made possible by a fairly intense commitment to safety. But increasingly over the last few years, we’ve been testing these limits. This story was first featured in the Future Perfect newsletter.
How we stretched our aviation system to the brink

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kelsey Piper

Air travel is remarkably, astonishingly safe. Every year, commercial US airlines take more than 800 million domestic passengers to their destinations, and in a typical year, zero of them are killed and very few are injured. It’s a track record made possible by a fairly intense commitment to safety. But increasingly over the last few years, we’ve been testing these limits. This story was first featured in the Future Perfect newsletter.
I pushed AI assistants to their limits, so you don’t have to. Here’s what really works.

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Kelsey Piper

Staying on top of AI developments is a full-time job. I would know, because it’s my full-time job.
Progressives should care that the global population is set to fall

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Kelsey Piper

At the dawn of the Covid pandemic, I wrote a newsletter about the approaching virus that highlighted what I saw as the biggest risk: that the question of whether to take Covid seriously would become a partisan political issue. To tackle something this big, I wrote, we’d have to all be on the same page. Future PerfectExplore the big, complicated problems the world faces and the most efficient ways to solve them. Sent twice a week. By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Notice.
Smallpox used to kill millions of people every year. Here’s how humans beat it.

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kelsey Piper

More than a million Americans have died of Covid-19, while the global death toll stands at over 15 million. It has been a horrifying and largely unnecessary tragedy, one that risks repeating itself as new diseases like bird flu knock on our door. But for all that the world has lost in the last few years, the history of infectious disease has a grim message: It could have been even worse.