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John Thornhill

Innovation Editor

John Thornhill is the Innovation Editor at the Financial Times writing a regular column on the impact of technology. He is also the founder of the FT125 forum, which holds monthly events for senior business executives, and host of Tech Tonic, the FT’s weekly podcast on technology.

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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  • Monday, 11 November, 2019
    Technology sector
    When ‘tears of joy’ emojis turn into frowning faces

    The organisation that rules the internet’s body language is having to perform a cultural and political dance

  • Sunday, 3 November, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast31 min listen
    Scott Kupor on VC funding

    On how to grow tech companies and the drawbacks of a venture capital dominated market

  • Monday, 28 October, 2019
    Fake news
    New tools are evolving in the fight against deepfakes

    Strengthening people’s mental antibodies could help society build a ‘herd immunity’

  • Monday, 21 October, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast31 min listen
    Stuart Russell on losing control of AI

    John Thornhill discusses how to make artificial intelligence safe for humans with Stuart Russell

  • Monday, 14 October, 2019
    Artificial intelligence
    How to prevent robots cooking the cat

    We need AI programs that check in with humans to ensure they are doing the right thing

  • Monday, 14 October, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast22 min listen
    Jaan Tallinn on AI safety

    John Thornhill talks to the founding engineer at Skype and Kazaa about his subsequent career as a tech investor

  • Monday, 30 September, 2019
    Climate change
    Technology can help save the planet, but not alone

    To bet everything on future innovation is one heck of a gamble with our future

  • Monday, 16 September, 2019
    Artificial intelligence
    Neural interfaces should upgrade, not degrade, humans

    Elon Musk’s vision of a merging of man and machine is startling, if not downright scary

  • Monday, 16 September, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast24 min listen
    Sarah Chan on neural interfaces

    How do we regulate brain-enhancing technologies?

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  • Monday, 9 September, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast24 min listen
    Alice Bentinck on harnessing tech talent

    Co-founder of Entrepreneur First on finding a new generation of tech founders

  • Monday, 2 September, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast26 min listen
    Vishal Chatrath on digital decision making

    Using AI to help speed up and improve decision making

  • Sunday, 1 September, 2019
    Social Media
    Use the market to clean up the web

    Advertisers must take far more responsibility for whom they reward online

  • Friday, 30 August, 2019
    ReviewPolitical books
    This is Not Propaganda by Peter Pomerantsev

    The Soviet-born writer warns of the ‘war against reality’ being waged by populist forces

  • Monday, 26 August, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast30 min listen
    Priya Lakhani on EdTech

    How AI can help improve the life chances of students in the UK and Middle East

  • Monday, 19 August, 2019
    Food & Beverage
    The food industry is due another revolution

    Data-rich delivery companies will know their customers far better than a restaurant ever can

  • Monday, 19 August, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast24 min listen
    Nicolas Berggruen on democracy in the digital age

    The billionaire philanthropist talks about his book on renovating democracy

  • Saturday, 10 August, 2019
    News in Focus podcast14 min listen
    Living with intelligent machines

    What will the world look like when machines are cleverer than we are?

  • Friday, 9 August, 2019
    Life & Arts
    AI and literature: the muse in the machine

    Novelists are captivated by the potential of artificial intelligence. But what happens when the machines start writing about us?

  • Monday, 5 August, 2019
    Smart cities
    Smart cities still need a human touch

    Urban experiments in Toronto and Barcelona will inform policymakers around the world

  • Monday, 22 July, 2019
    Artificial intelligence
    Formulating AI values is hard when humans don’t agree

    China and the west prioritise different things in algorithms

  • Monday, 22 July, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast32 min listen
    Mariana Mazzucato on sustainable growth

    John Thornhill talks to the economist

  • Monday, 15 July, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast31 min listen
    Paul Clarke on robotics and digital twins

    Ocado’s chief technology officer explains his vision for the future of ecommerce

  • Thursday, 11 July, 2019
    FT Books Essay
    Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?

    Well-argued book ‘The Technology Trap’ raises alarms about the impact of change

  • Monday, 8 July, 2019
    Innovation
    Boris Johnson is wrong to call ‘sin taxes’ regressive

    He argues they hit the poor harder than the rich — but so does obesity

  • Monday, 1 July, 2019
    Tech Tonic podcast26 min listen
    John Browne on engineering the future

    John Thornhill talks to the former chief executive of BP

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