Kelsey Piper
Contributing editor
Latest articles by Kelsey Piper
The silly way we think about resource scarcity.
The hard problem of faked data in science.
New research highlights how language-generating AI models could make it easier to create dangerous germs.
Worldviews are clashing when it comes to artificial intelligence.
Why openness about fraud — and a plan to fix it — is key to more effective philanthropy.
Fears about our ability to control powerful AI are growing.
How OpenAI’s Sam Altman is keeping up the AI safety balancing act.
The expiration of Title 42 has put migration front and center in US politics. Can a humane policy also be a winning political one?
Fears of an AI future are taking up all our focus. But we shouldn’t forget present-day problems like global health and poverty
Forty-three years ago this week, the world was officially declared free of smallpox — but that should only be the beginning.