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John Thornhill

Innovation Editor

John Thornhill is the Innovation Editor at the Financial Times writing a weekly column on the impact of technology. He is also the founder and editorial director of Sifted, the FT-backed site for European startups, and founder of FT Forums, which hosts monthly meetings for senior executives.

John was previously deputy editor and news editor of the FT in London. He has also been Europe editor, Paris bureau chief, Asia editor, Moscow correspondent and Lex columnist.

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  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    Artificial intelligence
    Europe should worry less and learn to love AI

    New legislation risks driving development of the transformative technology away from the bloc

    Montage image of the EU flag and faces with squares over them, representing facial recognition
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    Advertising
    Digital advertising is still far too murky

    Platforms must open up and let marketers see where their ads are being placed

    People crowd bellow the digital billboards of Times Square, New York. It takes rare skill not to make money out of the financial geyser that is digital advertising, but X has succeeded to an inglorious degree
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    War has spread to a sixth domain: the private sector

    The conflict in Ukraine highlights the need for governments and private companies to collaborate on national security

    Soldiers fire a field gun
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    The Big Read
    OpenAI and the rift at the heart of Silicon Valley

    The tech industry is divided over how best to develop AI, and whether it’s possible to balance safety with the pursuit of profits

  • 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

    Sam Altman
  • 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

    A person holds a mobile phone showing a ChatGPT logo
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
    Best books of 2023 — Technology

    John Thornhill selects his must-read titles

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  • 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

    Kamala Harris, the US vice-president, delivers a speech on AI in London
  • 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

    Gold and copper wires intertwine in glass tubes to form the workings of a quantum computer
  • 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

    Aerial view of the cities of Mountain View and Palo
  • 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’

    A montage of Yann LeCun’s photo and the Meta logo
  • 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

    Sculpture of Alan Turing poring over an Enigma machine at Bletchley Park
  • 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

    Joe Biden meets Xi Jinping at a G20 Summit in Bali
  • 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

    Karen Bakker
  • 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

    A Nissan Leaf recharges in Denver, Colorado
  • 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

    A boy wears a virtual reality headset in a classroom
  • 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

    A realistic AI-generated photo of a human eye
  • 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

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a white unicorn with a drooping horn, which is comprised of fifty pound banknotes.
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