Carey Goldberg

Carey Goldberg is a longtime health/science journalist whose recent work focuses heavily on the advent of generative Artificial Intelligence. She co-authored the 2023 book “The AI Revolution in Medicine: GPT-4 and Beyond” with Microsoft’s research chief and Harvard’s bio-informatics chair, and serves on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine AI. 

Carey has been the Boston bureau chief of The New York Times; a staff Moscow correspondent for The Los Angeles Times; a health/science reporter for The Boston Globe; and the Boston bureau chief of Bloomberg News, overseeing a staff of 20. She covered medicine and science at the public radio station WBUR for more than a decade. She has won multiple prizes, including for cancer coverage and an Edward R. Murrow award for innovation in podcasting. 

She was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT; graduated summa cum laude from Yale; and did graduate work at Harvard. Her children attended Brookline public schools, where she is helping to launch a new parent organization called “Learning First — Brookline.” She is also helping to found an AI-driven news outlet in Cambridge, Mass. 

She is co-author of the 2010 triple memoir “Three Wishes: A True Story Of Good Friends, Crushing Heartbreak and Astonishing Luck On Our Way To Love and Motherhood.”