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Jacob Silverman

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Covers:  Tech, politics, crypto, militarism, surveillance, corruption, corporate malfeasance, illicit finance
3 books. My latest is GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY (Bloomsbury) www.jacobsilverman.com Signal: jacobsilverman.99

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Journalist and author writing about politics, tech and society, and the occasional culture story.

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The Death of an AI Whistleblower

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By Jacob Silverman Verified
| The Nation Verified
Feature / April 13, 2026 The Death of an AI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji sought to expose OpenAI’s data abuses. Did it come at the expense of his own life? This article appears in the May 2026 issue, with the headline “The Death of an AI Whistleblower.” On October 23, 2024, Suchir Balaji’s face appeared, freshly shaved, boyish but serious, partially shadowed, in The New York Times as he announced himself as a whistleblower against one of the most powerful technology companies in the world.
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April 2026, no. 485

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By Simon Tedeschi, Aiden Heung, Jacob Silverman Verified
| The ABR Podcast
In April’s cover story, Simon Tedeschi pinpoints a pernicious shift driving the hurly-burly of cancellations and resignations at Australia’s writers’ festivals. Once sites of genuine exchange, festivals can now simply perform ‘reassurance and calibration’, according to a ‘societal impatience with ambiguity’.
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Elon Musk and the radicalization of Silicon Valley’ by Jacob Silverman

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By André Dao, Jacob Silverman Verified
| The ABR Podcast
American democracy has been thoroughly captured by a class of billionaire plutocrats, pyramid scheme fraudsters, and angry men intent on purging the nation of their enemies. This is the irresistible conclusion that emerges from Jacob Silverman’s Gilded Rage, which styles itself as a ‘guided tour through America’s self-designated innovator class’.
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