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Ethan Zuckerman

Pittsfield

UMass Amherst, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Previously MIT, Geekcorps, Tripod. No longer posting here. See @[email protected], @ethanz.bsky.social

Articles

  • 4 days ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman

    The best way to attract attention in the crowded space of technology is to make bold claims. AI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the AI Futures Project, a research group based in California, leapt into the limelight earlier this year with AI 2027, a scenario that predicts that AI agents will be better than humans at virtually every task within two years.

  • 1 month ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman

    Like a lot of middle-aged people, I am on Facebook not so much because I want to be, but because it feels essential to keep up with the minutiae of daily life in my circle of friends and family. Facebook gives me an ambient awareness of what’s going on in the lives of people I don’t see very often: their children’s sporting achievements, who’s been accepted into what colleges, anniversaries and other milestones and—increasingly these days—the deaths of parents and occasionally of friends.

  • 2 months ago | ethanzuckerman.com | Ethan Zuckerman

    Three days ago, the editor of The Atlantic, a major American news magazine I occasionally write for, revealed that he was inadvertently added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal, in which plans to bomb Houthi rebels in Yemen were discussed.

  • 2 months ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman

    On 27th January 2025, the stock price of one of the world’s highest-flying companies, Nvidia, fell 17 per cent. The stock ultimately lost almost $600bn in value, a record loss for any publicly traded company in the US. Nvidia makes powerful chips that power generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, which have captured public imagination and many billions in investment.

  • 2 months ago | prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman

    On 27th January 2025, the stock price of one of the world’s highest-flying companies, Nvidia, fell 17 per cent. The stock ultimately lost almost $600bn in value, a record loss for any publicly traded company in the US. Nvidia makes powerful chips that power generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, which have captured public imagination and many billions in investment.

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6 Apr 25

RT @BKCHarvard: BKC Faculty Associates @evelyndouek and @EthanZ analyze the Supreme Court’s TikTok ban ruling. They warn it sets a preceden…

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2 Apr 25

RT @prospect_uk: It requires a truly Trumpian level of stupidity to blow up the US university system and the economic benefits connected to…

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Ethan Zuckerman @EthanZ
28 Mar 25

RT @fortuny: “Post-post-truth”, or how the SignalGate story is forking reality https://t.co/pl08mD4fYX #ideas by @EthanZ