John Thornhill

Friday, 24 November, 2023

Thursday, 23 November, 2023

Artificial intelligence

OpenAI has just fused its corporate ‘kill switch’

Abandoning attempts to hold the company to account for the impact of its technology would be a tragic mistake

Thursday, 16 November, 2023

Artificial intelligence

How to keep the lid on the Pandora’s box of open AI

The debate currently playing out will have an impact on global productivity and stability

Tuesday, 14 November, 2023

FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023

Best books of 2023 — Technology

John Thornhill selects his must-read titles

Thursday, 2 November, 2023

Artificial intelligence

Step aside world, the US wants to write the AI rules

The Bletchley Park summit is worthy, but its conclusions will be toothless compared with Biden’s executive order

Wednesday, 1 November, 2023

ReviewNon-Fiction

The Worlds I See — keeping the human at the heart of AI

Fei-Fei Li’s deft and moving book is both a loving portrait of her family and an exploration of our technological future

Monday, 30 October, 2023

News in-depthArtificial intelligence3 min

Can generative AI live up to the hype? | FT Tech

Billions are being spent on developing its money-making potential after the early hype

Thursday, 26 October, 2023

Quantum technologies

Time to get serious about the dangers of quantum computing

‘Q-day’, when the world’s data encryption codes fail, is already on its way

Thursday, 19 October, 2023

Venture capital investment

The VC industry needs to rip up the playbook and start again

The boom is over but Silicon Valley’s optimism is masking problems with investor capital and returns

Thursday, 19 October, 2023

InterviewArtificial intelligence

AI will never threaten humans, says top Meta scientist

Artificial intelligence is still dumber than cats, says pioneer Yann LeCun, so worries over existential risks are ‘premature’

Thursday, 5 October, 2023

Artificial intelligence

We need a political Alan Turing to design AI safeguards

Frontier technology is a challenge that raises a spectrum of concerns

Friday, 29 September, 2023

InterviewLunch with the FT

Tech entrepreneur Niklas Zennström: ‘Let’s break the Silicon Valley monopoly’

The Skype co-founder turned venture capitalist on how Europe’s start-ups can challenge America’s giants

Thursday, 28 September, 2023

Artificial intelligence

The promise — and peril — of generative AI

This technology is readily accessible and usable at extraordinary speed and scale

Thursday, 21 September, 2023

US-China trade dispute

Tech remains central in ‘hot peace’ between China and US

Despite the shouty rhetoric, economic symbiosis remains strong, benefiting consumers on both sides

Tuesday, 19 September, 2023

Technology

Can AI help us speak to animals?

Microphones and machine learning are being deployed to understand the non-human world

Saturday, 16 September, 2023

ObituaryKaren Bakker

Karen Bakker, scientist and author, 1971-2023

Her boundary-pushing work on how animals communicate was just one part of her considerable legacy

Thursday, 14 September, 2023

Technology

Clean data must be as much of a right as clean water

Buried deep in the privacy policies of car companies is their practice of collection, using and selling your very personal information

Thursday, 14 September, 2023

ReviewFT Books Essay

AI and the next great tech shift

From technology containment to political power and digital regulation, three books about the artificial intelligence revolution

Thursday, 7 September, 2023

Education

‘Edtech’ offers no escape from reality

Experiments in virtual teaching could turn a digital divide into an educational one

Thursday, 31 August, 2023

Virtual and Augmented Reality

What happens when AI passes through the ‘uncanny valley’?

Robots are close to being so convincing that we can’t tell them apart from humans — and that could be a problem

Friday, 25 August, 2023

Technology sector

High hopes over Arm’s relisting may clash with reality

The languishing IPO market awaits the outcome of the British chip designer’s flotation

Thursday, 17 August, 2023

Artificial intelligence

The sceptical case on generative AI

Hype is huge around the technology, but some uncomfortable truths are also being raised

Thursday, 10 August, 2023

Technology

How ‘creative insecurity’ is stimulating Ukrainian innovation

Russia’s target has had to rapidly develop its own defence capabilities, often by adapting civilian technologies for military use

Thursday, 3 August, 2023

UK business

You don’t become a science superpower without taking care of the basics

Britain’s ambition to lead technological transformation is hobbled by inertia in both the public and private sectors

Tuesday, 18 July, 2023

ReviewBiography and memoir

Osip Mandelstam — a Russian poet who could not be silent

Ralph Dutli’s rounded biography of the Soviet-era writer murdered by Stalin deftly examines his literary legacy

John Thornhill

Innovation Editor

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