Karen Hao - Artificial Intelligence Reporter at MIT Technology Review

Karen Hao is the artificial intelligence reporter for MIT Technology Review. In particular she covers the ethics and social impact of the technology as well as its applications for social good. She also writes the AI newsletter, the Algorithm, which thoughtfully examines the field’s latest news and research. Prior to joining the publication, she was a reporter and data scientist at Quartz and an application engineer at the first startup to spin out of Google X.
In this episode I talk to Karen about her upbringing as an Asian American minority in a small town in New Jersey, how she got the courage to make a career pivot from engineering to journalism, and her thoughts on the future of AI. I learned a lot from this conversation with Karen and hope you do too!