I am an award-winning journalist covering artificial intelligence. I was the first journalist to ever profile OpenAI; I am now working on a book about the company and the AI industry for Penguin Press, to publish in 2025. I sometimes write for The Atlantic and 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 Humanist Media Award in 2024, and 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 by the Webby Awards as one of the best newsletters on the internet in 2018.

My pieces have been cited by Congress (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), featured in university curriculums, and remade into museum exhibits. I regularly give talks about AI and journalism around the world. I sit on the board of the Co-Opting AI Series, a book series from the University of California Press exploring the different social dimensions of AI, and on the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism AI Advisory council.

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.