Kelsey Piper

Oakland

Senior Writer at Vox

We're not doomed, we just have a big to-do list.

Articles

Apple’s AI study can’t say whether AI will take your job

1 week ago | vox.com | Kelsey Piper

In 2023, one popular perspective on AI went like this: Sure, it can generate lots of impressive text, but it can’t truly reason — it’s all shallow mimicry, just “stochastic parrots” squawking. At the time, it was easy to see where this perspective was coming from. Artificial intelligence had moments of being impressive and interesting, but it also consistently failed basic tasks.
Guess I’m A Rationalist Now

1 week ago | scottaaronson.blog | Kelsey Piper

Guess I’m A Rationalist Now A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I’ve known for years—Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl Feynman—as well as people I’ve known only online and was delighted to meet in person, like Joe Carlsmith and Jacob Falkovich and Daniel Reeves.
What drove the tech right’s — and Elon Musk’s — big, failed bet on Trump

2 weeks ago | vox.com | Kelsey Piper

I live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I don’t know anyone who says they voted for Donald Trump in 2016 or 2020. I know, on the other hand, quite a few who voted for him in 2024, and quite a few more who — while they didn’t vote for Trump because of his many crippling personal foibles, corruption, penchant for destroying the global economy, etc. — have thoroughly soured on the Democratic Party. It’s not just my professional networks.
Guess I'm A Rationalist Now

2 weeks ago | zephyrnet.com | Kelsey Piper

A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference featuring many people I've known for years-Scott Alexander, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Zvi Mowshowitz, Sarah Constantin, Carl Feynman-as well as people I've known only online and was delighted to meet in person, like Joe Carlsmith and Jacob Falkovich and Daniel Reeves.
ChatGPT and Claude privacy: Why AI makes surveillance everyone’s issue

3 weeks ago | vox.com | Kelsey Piper

For decades, digital privacy advocates have been warning the public to be more careful about what we share online. And for the most part, the public has cheerfully ignored them. I am certainly guilty of this myself. I usually click “accept all” on every cookie request every website puts in front of my face, because I don’t want to deal with figuring out which permissions are actually needed.
Harvard just fired a tenured professor for the first time in 80 years. Good.

4 weeks 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

4 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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?

1 month 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?

1 month 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.