Kelsey Piper

Kelsey Piper is an American journalist and effective altruist. She is a staff writer at Vox and the former president of Stanford Effective Altruism.[1]

Kelsey Piper
NationalityAmerican
OccupationJournalist, blogger
Notable work
Future Perfect
Websitehttps://www.vox.com/future-perfect

Early life

Piper attended Stanford University, where she majored in computer science. At Stanford she discovered effective altruism, pledging to donate 30% of her lifetime income to charity and founding a campus advocacy organization.[2]

Future Perfect

Since 2018, Piper has written the Vox column Future Perfect, which covers "the most critical issues of the day through the lens of effective altruism".[3][4] Piper is concerned about global catastrophic risks, and treats journalism as a way to popularize these risks and advance the cause of addressing them,[5] which is part of effective altruism's broader concern regarding the relevance of immediate action.[6] Specifically, Piper has discussed the possibility that society is living on a historical precipice, where immediate action needs to be taken to avoid global catastrophic risks, and what implications that has for effective altruism and her own journalism.[6]

Piper is also an outspoken defender of billionaire philanthropy, including writing on how to assess where very-wealthy philanthropists should donate.[7] Others have questioned whether this is ethically dubious, both as a symptom of systematic issues with income inequality, and as potentially permitting the wealthy disproportionate influence over those issues they philanthropize.[8]

Piper was also an early responder to the COVID-19 pandemic, discussing the risk of a serious global pandemic in February[9] and recommending measures such as mask-wearing and social distancing in March.[10][11] Since then, she has discussed the societal risk posed by inaccurate study preprints[12] and analyzed the impact of the pandemic on the historical scale, deeming it one of the ten deadliest in human history.[13]

References
  1. "Kelsey Piper". Vox (Profile). Retrieved February 2, 2021.
  2. Zabel, Claire (February 5, 2015). "A different take on giving back". Stanford Daily.
  3. Labenz, Nathan; Piper, Kelsey (June 25, 2020). "Kelsey Piper: Future Perfect — a year of coverage". The Centre for Effective Altruism.
  4. Schmidt, Christine (October 15, 2018). "Will Vox's new section on effective altruism…well, do any good?". Nieman Journalism Lab.
  5. Wiblin, Robert; Harris, Keiran; Hutchinson, Michelle; Piper, Kelsey (February 27, 2019). Can journalists still write about important things? (Podcast). 80,000 Hours.
  6. Fisher, Richard (September 24, 2020). "Are we living at the 'hinge of history'?". BBC Future.
  7. Piper, Kelsey; Samuel, Sigal (January 13, 2021). "Dear Elon Musk: Here's how you should donate your money". Vox.
  8. Campbell, David (June 6, 2019). "My students see giving money away as a good thing but they're getting leery of billionaire donors". The Conversation.
  9. Masson, Gabrielle (February 6, 2020). "12th US coronavirus case confirmed in Wisconsin". Becker's Clinical Leadership and Infection Control.
  10. Piper, Kelsey (March 13, 2020). "It's not overreacting to prepare for coronavirus. Here's how". Vox.
  11. Miller, Johanna L. (July 17, 2020). "Patience". Physics Today.
  12. Griggs, Mary Beth (September 19, 2020). "Why it's important to look for the limitations in coronavirus studies". The Verge.
  13. Palmer, Ben (January 22, 2021). "Weekend reads: The travel industry steps in to help end Covid-19". Advisory Board.
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