Karen Hao

Currently a contributing writer for The Atlantic and previously a foreign correspondent based in Hong Kong for The Wall Street Journal and senior artificial intelligence editor at the MIT Technology Review, she is best known for her coverage on AI research, technology ethics and the social impact of AI.

[4] Previously, she worked at Quartz as a tech reporter and data scientist and was an application engineer at the first startup to spin out of X Development.

Her writing has spanned research and issues regarding big tech data privacy, misinformation, deepfakes, facial recognition, and AI healthcare tools.

[7][8][9] Upon its release, leaders at Facebook including Mike Schroepfer and Yann LeCun immediately criticized the piece through Twitter responses.

[17] In March 2022, she was hired by The Wall Street Journal to cover China technology and society, while being based in Hong Kong.