Selected Writing
TECH, ETHICS & SOCIETY
Artificial intelligence is creating a new world order, 2022.
Cleaning up ChatGPT takes heavy toll on human workers, 2023
The U.S. is turning away from its biggest scientific partner, 2023
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation, 2021.
How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation, 2021.
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story, 2021.
The messy, secretive reality behind OpenAI’s bid to save the world, 2020.
U.S.-China tensions fuel outflow of Chinese scientists from U.S. universities, 2022.
U.S. sanctions drive Chinese firms to advance AI without latest chips, 2023.
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says, 2020.
“I started crying”: Inside Timnit Gebru’s last days at Google—and what happens next, 2020.
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes, 2019.
Two men rode a decadelong tech wave in China—only one is staying, 2022.
Vast cache of Chinese police files offered for sale in alleged hack, 2022.
The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty, 2020.
Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally ban it, 2021.
Big Tech’s guide to talking about AI ethics, 2021.
Inside the strange new world of being a deepfake actor, 2020.
MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein’s money was justified, 2019.
Amazon is the invisible backbone of ICE’s immigration crackdown, 2018.
The secret lives of students who mine cryptocurrency in their dorm rooms, 2018.
RESEARCH & EXPLAINERS
What is ChatGPT? What to know about the AI chatbot, 2023.
China seeks a quantum leap in computing, 2022.
This is how AI bias really happens—and why it’s so hard to fix, 2018.
AI has cracked a key mathematical puzzle for understanding our world, 2020.
A radical new neural network design could overcome big challenges in AI, 2018.
The hidden workforce that helped filter violence and abuse out of ChatGPT, podcast, 2023
What is AI? We drew you a flowchart, graphic, 2018.
What is machine learning? We drew you another flowchart, graphic, 2018.
Can you make AI fairer than a judge? Play our courtroom algorithm game, interactive, 2019.
We analyzed 16,625 papers to figure out where AI is headed next, data viz, 2019.
VISUAL & AUDIO STORIES
Image credits (top to bottom) Joaquin Quiñonero Candela: Winni Wintermeyer; Timnit Gebru: Nhung Lê; Sophie Zhang & Greg Brockman: Christie Hemm Klok; flowcharts: Karen Hao