Portfolio
Tiffany Li
Editorial Fellow, The Information · San Francisco
Tiffany Li reports on AI safety from The Information's San Francisco office. She is the recipient of a Tarbell Fellowship, funded by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, which provides training in AI and journalism. She previously covered politics and campaigns for ABC News and WisPolitics, and served as editor-in-chief of the Chicago Maroon, the University of Chicago's student newspaper.
About
Background, expertise, career
She covers who watches the AI labs, and whether the watchers themselves stay independent. Her reporting runs on named actors, dated incidents and reporting frameworks, the same material her headlines are built from.
Now
The Information
Editorial Fellow in the San Francisco office, covering AI safety and the institutions that govern it.
2025 to 2026
Chicago Maroon
Reporter and editor across News, Arts, Copy-editing and Data, elected editor-in-chief for the 2025-26 term. Elena Eisenstadt served as deputy.
Aug to Sep 2024
WisPolitics of State Affairs
News intern in Madison, Wisconsin. Published a deep dive on the rollout of a $525M Wisconsin housing package, covered the governor's 2025-27 biennial budget and the DNC, and used Excel for analysis.
Earlier
ABC News
Covered politics and campaigns.
Class of 2026
University of Chicago
Studies political science and economics, after transferring from Middlebury College.
Writing · 2026
Selected reporting on AI safety
Five pieces from September 2026. Headlines and public summaries are shown here; full text sits behind The Information's paywall at the links. Translations cover the headline and the public summary only.