Kelsey Piper
Journalist at The Argument; wrote Vox's Future Perfect column on AI and global risks.
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- Kelsey Piper is an American journalist and a staff writer at The Argument.
- Piper earlier wrote for Vox's Future Perfect column, which covers issues through an effective altruism lens, joining it in 2018.
- Piper founded Stanford Effective Altruism while studying symbolic systems at Stanford.
- In 2024 Piper reported on OpenAI's agreements forbidding departing employees from criticizing the company, and later published leaked documents about them.
- At The Argument Piper has written on US reading scores and the "Mississippi Miracle".
Key facts
- Born
- c. 19921
- Education
- Symbolic Systems, Stanford University (graduated 2016)1
- Career
- Head of the writing team at Triplebyte; Vox staff writer for Future Perfect from 2018; staff writer at The Argument1
- Reporting
- OpenAI's non-disparagement agreements for departing staff (May 2024); K-12 literacy and the "Mississippi Miracle"1
- Founded
- Stanford Effective Altruism, a student group1
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