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Ethan Zuckerman

Reporter · GB

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Latest publication
Sep 16, 2026
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Top 1M sites
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Ethan Zuckerman, Ellen Halliday, Imaan Irfan

    Will artificial intelligence destroy us all? (opens the original)

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    Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Spotify As tech insiders warn about an impending apocalypse, Ellen and Imaan are joined by Ethan Zuckerman, Prospect contributor and associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to examine those claims. He discusses AI agents going rogue in the Hugging Face incident, as well as recent calls from tech leaders to slow down AI development. With Trump dismissing safety concerns, Ethan also discusses US competition with China, how global thinking

  2. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Ethan Zuckerman

    Should Trump set up an AI sovereign wealth fund? (opens the original)

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    In June 2026, the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders proposed a bill that sounded like just another one of the veteran independent’s non-starters in the land of laissez-faire: a 50 per cent levy on AI companies paid to the US government in shares. Because AIs are built on the collective cultural production of the nation’s (and world’s) creators, Sanders reasoned, US citizens should be able to share in the wealth being created by these new fiscal giants. Sanders is the patriarch of America’s fragile

  3. Article · Jul 8, 2026 · Ethan Zuckerman

    Trump’s Anthropic spat has made the case for AI sovereignty (opens the original)

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    For the major US AI companies today, there are two big risks. The first is getting on Donald Trump’s bad side. The second, strangely, is having people believe your own hype. Take Anthropic, creator of the popular AI chatbot and coding tool Claude. The company was launched in 2021 by dissidents from OpenAI as a more safety-focused and socially responsible alternative to the chatbot pioneer. OpenAI, of course, had its own socially responsible mission when it was founded in 2015—to “benefit h

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