Alex Kirshner
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 8
- Latest publication
- Sep 24, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Slate
- Top 50K sites
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- Jul 14, 2026
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America Might Beat China in a Crucial Race. You Might Not Like What That Means. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. “If they’re going to be killer robots, I’d rather they be American killer robots and not Chinese killer robots,” Ted Cruz told Politico in early September. It was the most concise version of the argument that the Republicans running the country have made often against artificial intelligence regulation. They equate regulation with an American slowdown that would put Chines
Mark Zuckerberg Might Have Finally Made Something That’s Actually Useful (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The people have spoken, and they’re curious about A.I. agents. Meta’s new app, Muse, is No. 1 on the App Store. There’s a shift at play. Most of the people using ChatGPT are asking it to do things that remain right in front of them. Answer this question, draft this text, or do something else right here in the app. Muse is meant as something different: a robot that performs
The Jewish Leaders Celebrating Macklemore’s Dismissal From Ed Sheeran’s Tour Have Lost the Plot on Antisemitism (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Ed Sheeran’s tour needs new opening acts. On Sept. 4, one of the pop star’s openers, Seattle-bred rapper Macklemore, gave a speech in which he called for a “free Palestine” and also said the words “genocide” and “apartheid” when talking about Israel. (He also called for several other peoples to be free, all around the world, including in Cuba and Sudan.) This all sat poorl
Silicon Valley Is Making Its Wildest Promises Ever. This Number From Anthropic Proves It. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When Elon Musk was getting ready to take SpaceX public in June, the company advertised, in its government paperwork, the largest “total addressable market” in human history: $28.5 trillion per year, with $26.5 trillion (lol) attributed to artificial intelligence. A TAM is a company’s assessment of all the money it could theoretically capture in every market it could serve.
A Controversial Technology Is Making Me a Worse Writer. No, Not That One. (opens the original)
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Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. I wrote this article. I am sure of it not because I remember writing this thing in fits and starts throughout Saturday, but because an A.I. detector called Pangram blessed these paragraphs with a “100% Human Written” score. Thank heavens. An A.I. detector’s value proposition is simple enough. For a teacher, it ensures that students’ work is their own. For the rest of us, i
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