Selected Writing
TECH, ETHICS & SOCIETY
Microsoft’s hypocrisy on AI, 2024.
AI is taking water from the desert, 2024.
Inside the chaos at OpenAI, 2023
The new AI panic, 2023.
Cleaning up ChatGPT takes heavy toll on human workers, 2023
The U.S. is turning away from its biggest scientific partner, 2023
Artificial intelligence is creating a new world order, 2022.
U.S.-China tensions fuel outflow of Chinese scientists from U.S. universities, 2022.
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.
We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says, 2020.
Training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes, 2019.
MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein’s money was justified, 2019.
The secret lives of students who mine cryptocurrency in their dorm rooms, 2018.
RESEARCH & EXPLAINERS
The hidden workforce that helped filter violence and abuse out of ChatGPT, podcast, 2023
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.
What is AI? We drew you a flowchart, graphic, 2018.
What is machine learning? We drew you another flowchart, graphic, 2018.
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