I am an award-winning journalist covering artificial intelligence. I am working on a book about OpenAI and the AI industry for Penguin Press, to publish in 2025, and a contributing writer for The Atlantic. I am grateful to also lead The AI Spotlight Series, a program I designed with the Pulitzer Center to train 1,000 journalists on how to cover AI. (Sign up for a workshop with me and my fellow instructors here.)

Previously, I was a foreign correspondent at The Wall Street Journal focused on AI & China, and a senior editor at MIT Technology Review, where I wrote about the latest AI research & its social impacts. I have been a fellow with the Harvard Technology and Public Purpose program, the MIT Knight Science Journalism program, and the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network.

My work won an American National Magazine Award in 2022 for “outstanding achievement for magazine journalists under the age of 30.” My former weekly newsletter, The Algorithm, was named one of the best newsletters on the internet.

My pieces on the forced dismissal of Google’s ethical AI co-lead; Facebook’s addiction to and funding of misinformation; and OpenAI’s heavy toll on workers in Kenya were cited by Congress (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). In 2018, my “What is AI?” flowchart was featured in a museum exhibit in Vienna.

I regularly give talks about AI and journalism and have guest lectured at MIT, Yale, Cornell, Notre Dame, and HKU, among other institutions. My work is taught in universities around the world.

In a past life, I was an application engineer at the first startup to spin out of Google[x]. I received a B.S. in mechanical engineering and minor in energy studies from MIT.