Kelsey Piper is an American journalist, currently a Staff Writer for Future Perfect.

Background

Piper studied symbolic systems at Stanford University. During her studies, she joined Giving What We Can and founded Stanford Effective Altruism.^[1] After graduation, Piper worked as lead of the writing team at Triplebyte, a recruiting and technical screening platform for tech companies.

Journalism career

Piper joined Vox in September 2018.^[2] As of January 2022, she has published over 290 articles on an extensive range of topics related to effective altruism, including animal product alternatives,^[3][4] cash transfers,^[5] climate change,^[6] cultured meat,^[7] deworming,^[8] electoral reform,^[9][10] farmed animal welfare,^[11] forecasting,^[12][13] foreign aid,^[14][15] global catastrophic biological risk,^[16][17] global catastrophic risk,^[18][19] the hinge of history hypothesis,^[20] human extinction,^[21] malaria,^[22][23] nuclear warfare, nuclear winter,^[24][25] prediction markets,^[26] space colonization,^[27] suffering-focused ethics, the timing of philanthropy,^[28][29] universal basic income,^[30][31] and the vulnerable world hypothesis,^[32] among many others.^[33]

Piper's article outlining the case for taking artificial intelligence as an existential risk seriously has been praised by many as a rigorous yet accessible introduction to the topic.^[34]

In early February 2020, when less than a dozen COVID-19 cases had been confirmed in the United States and many media outlets and health authorities were dismissive of the risks posed by SARS-CoV-2, Piper wrote about the possibility that it might become a global pandemic and emphasized the importance of an early response.^[35]