Karen Hao Biography
Karen Hao is a data scientist and journalist from the United States. She is best known for her coverage of AI research, technology ethics, and the social impact of AI. She is currently a contributing writer for The Atlantic and was previously a foreign correspondent based in Hong Kong for The Wall Street Journal and senior artificial intelligence editor at the MIT Technology Review.
Karen Hao Age
Hao was born and raised in the United States of America.
Karen Hao Education
In 2011, Hao graduated from The Lawrenceville School. She earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering with a minor in energy studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015. She is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.
Karen Hao Career
Hao also contributes to the podcast In Machines We Trust and the newsletter The Algorithm. She previously worked as a tech reporter and data scientist at Quartz and as an application engineer at the first firm spun out of Google X. Mother Jones, Sierra Magazine, The New Republic, and other magazines have published Hao’s work. Hao is well-known in the technology industry for her reporting on new AI research findings and their societal and ethical implications. Her research and writing have included big tech data privacy, misinformation, deepfakes, face recognition, and AI healthcare technologies.
In March 2021, Hao wrote a paper that revealed previously unreported details about how several teams at Facebook’s attempts to tackle misinformation using machine intelligence were hampered and constantly at odds by Facebook’s aim to increase user engagement. Following its publication, Facebook executives such as Mike Schroepfer and Yann LeCun slammed the post on Twitter. Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, AI researchers and AI ethics specialists, commented in favor of Hao’s essay and pushed for further change and progress for all. Hao also co-produces the podcast In Machines We Trust, which explores the rise of AI with people who are inventing, researching, and employing AI technologies. The podcast earned the Front Page Award for investigative reporting in 2020.
As a data scientist, Hao occasionally makes data visualizations, which have appeared in publications such as the MIT Technology Review. Her flowchart visualization “What is AI?” was displayed as a work at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna in 2018. She has spoken at TEDxGateway, the United Nations Foundation, EmTech, WNPR, and a variety of other conferences and podcasts. Her TEDx lecture emphasized the significance of democratizing AI development. She was hired by The Wall Street Journal in March 2022 to cover China technology and society from Hong Kong.
Karen Hao Awards- Honors
- 2019 Webby Award nominee for best newsletter, as a writer of The Algorithm
- 2021 Front Page Award in investigative reporting
- 2021 Ambies Award nominee for best knowledge and science podcast
- 2021 Webby Award nominee for best technology podcast
Karen Hao Net Worth
Hao has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
