Karen Hao
Journalist and author on AI
Karen Hao is an American journalist and author who reports on artificial intelligence and its effects on society. She wrote Empire of AI.
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American Born 1993 in Illinois, United States
About Karen Hao
Karen Hao is an American journalist whose reporting centers on artificial intelligence (AI), including research, technology ethics and the effects of AI on society. She has worked as a foreign correspondent in Hong Kong for The Wall Street Journal and as senior AI editor at the MIT Technology Review. She also helped produce a podcast called In Machines We Trust, and she authored a newsletter named The Algorithm. Earlier in her career she was a tech reporter and data scientist at Quartz. Before that she was an application engineer at a startup that was the first to emerge from X Development. She has since worked as a freelance reporter, with pieces in The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Sierra Magazine and The New Republic. Her book in our catalog is Empire of AI.