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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, 1 June, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Beware ‘death by GPT syndrome’

      Generative AI has uses for the legal and health professions but is also a trap for the unwary

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Technology sector
      Regulating artificial intelligence is a 4D challenge

      Experts warn of existential threats that require a global competition for good ideas

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Entrepreneurship
      Europe needs to ‘Frankenstein’ its start-up sector

      Germany is an example of a country with entrepreneurial potential, but it lacks domestic funding

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      The likely winners of the generative AI gold rush

      Small, specialist models that are cheap to train and fast to run may win out over the broader Big Tech offerings

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Technology
      How technology reinvented chess as a global social network

      The sport has become more accessible in the internet age

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
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      Quantum computing could break the internet. This is how

      We don’t know when. We don’t know who will get there first. But Q-day will happen — and it will change the world as we know it

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
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      The UK’s online safety bill will not keep us safe

      Proposed legislation will weaken the security of messaging apps or prompt their operators to leave Britain altogether

    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Keeping ultra-intelligent machines docile is the challenge of our age

      Researchers are split over how to manage the threats posed by new forms of generative AI

    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
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      Tech Tonic Season 6: The Quantum Revolution

      Our new podcast series asks what a future powered by quantum computing could look like

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Technology sector
      Multiple red flags are not yet slowing the generative AI train

      Critics claim the technology carries alarming risks and needs better governance

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
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      How European entrepreneurs can live the American dream

      The social model designed to maximise happiness, not GDP, creates its own land of opportunity

    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
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      The quantum revolution: ‘Spooky action’

      The weird physics of quantum computers

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      GPT-4 is as astonishing as it is unnerving

      The new model is more accurate and powerful and has greater reasoning capabilities. But it is also open to abuse

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
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      SVB shows that there are few libertarians in a financial foxhole

      Like banking titans in 2008, tech tycoons favour the privatisation of profits and the socialisation of losses

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
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      ‘Fictional intelligence’ can blind us to real-world dangers

      Policymakers and strategists look to novelists to help envisage the tech accelerating towards us

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
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      Introducing Tech Tonic Season 6: The Quantum Revolution

      In this new season, Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill talks about quantum computing

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
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      Israel risks turning into a shut-down nation

      Political unrest is causing the country’s extraordinarily successful tech sector to look elsewhere

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      AI can help us build imagination machines

      Robot learning models can tackle three barriers to human creativity: boredom, shame and vision

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      AI warfare can empower the bad guys as well as the good

      There are serious questions about how far national security capabilities should be outsourced to private companies

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      UK business & economy
      Britain’s entrepreneurs need more than support by stealth

      The UK’s dizzying churn of industrial policy changes has left start-ups vulnerable to lures from elsewhere

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Can generative AI’s stimulating powers extend to productivity?

      ChatGPT and similar software could prove transformative but we should temper our optimism

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Artificial intelligence
      Google Translate for the zoo? How humans might talk to animals

      A sonic revolution triggered by advances in hardware and software lets us eavesdrop on planetary conversations

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      FT Magazine
      300 nuclear missiles are heading your way. You must respond. What now?

      Inside Moran Cerf’s quest to modernise the decision-making process that could end life on earth

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Technology sector
      Quantum computing is harder than herding kittens

      Whether the industry will rewrite the future of cryptography and computation is still up for fierce debate

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Big tech
      In (partial) defence of Silicon Valley

      For all their faults, tech innovators may at last be making an impact on productivity — and on wider society

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