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Sigal Samuel

Sigal Samuel

Senior Reporter

    Latest articles by Sigal Samuel

    24 things we think will happen in 2024
    Future Perfect

    From Trump to Tesla, how 2024 will shake out, according to the Future Perfect team.

    By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews and 4 more
    The 14 predictions that came true in 2023 — and the 7 that didn’t
    Future Perfect

    The 21 forecasts we made in 2023, revisited.

    By Bryan Walsh, Dylan Matthews and 2 more
    Aisha Nyandoro is making guaranteed income a reality in Mississippi
    The 2023 Future Perfect 50

    Nyandoro’s program takes aim at generational poverty in Jackson, Mississippi.

    By Sigal Samuel
    Katja Grace wants you to stop thinking of AI as an arms race
    The 2023 Future Perfect 50

    Grace argues AI researchers should slow down. They’re starting to agree with her.

    By Sigal Samuel
    Tatsuyoshi Saijo wants to be “a good ancestor”
    The 2023 Future Perfect 50

    Inspired by “seventh-generation decision-making,” Saijo is looking to the future.

    By Sigal Samuel
    Gul Dolen wants to harness psychedelics for healing
    The 2023 Future Perfect 50

    Dolen hopes “critical periods” created by psychedelics can help stroke patients.

    By Sigal Samuel
    Meredith Whittaker wants to keep your digital conversations private
    The 2023 Future Perfect 50

    Whittaker, the president of Signal, is also asking hard questions about artificial intelligence.

    By Sigal Samuel
    Varsha Venugopal and Fiona Conlon are using gossip to save lives
    The 2023 Future Perfect 50

    The pair’s nonprofit, Suvita, is boosting child vaccination rates in India.

    By Sigal Samuel
    Future Perfect
    OpenAI’s board may have been right to fire Sam Altman — and to rehire him, tooOpenAI’s board may have been right to fire Sam Altman — and to rehire him, too
    Future Perfect

    The alternative — a mass exodus of OpenAI’s top talent to Microsoft — would have been worse.

    By Sigal Samuel
    World Politics
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    World Politics

    What we talk about when we talk about genocide.

    By Nicole Narea and Sigal Samuel