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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, 23 March, 2023
    Tech start-ups
    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
    Tech Tonic podcast25 min listen
    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
    FT News Briefing podcast2 min listen
    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
    Technology sector
    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

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    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

  • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
    US-China trade dispute
    Year in a word: Chip choke

    Major powers have realised the critical importance of semiconductors to the global economy

  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
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    The Filipina journalist shows how demagogues misuse the internet — yet insists it can be a force for good

  • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
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    Revenge of reality: how technology was discounted in 2022

    As innovative stocks have deflated, conventional luxury, energy and defence have thrived

  • Friday, 16 December, 2022
    Renewable energy
    ‘Bottling the Sun’: is this a new dawn for the fusion industry?

    The breakthrough this week is good news for renewable energy, but it could take decades to come into effect

  • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
    Artificial intelligence
    ChatGPT is less wowed by itself than we are

    A debate is emerging between paternalistic and libertarian interpretations of AI

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    FIFA World Cup
    Football’s VAR is a lesson in flawed technology

    Robot linesmen are no substitute for the real thing and offer a warning against using inventions for their own sake

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    Social Media
    Elon Musk’s free speech absolutism may endanger fragile democracies

    Badly moderated social media platforms can have chilling real world effects

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
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    John Thornhill selects his must-read titles

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
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    Investors consistently fail to drill into the hype around tech entrepreneurs such as Sam Bankman-Fried

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    ReviewBusiness books
    FT business books: what to read this month

    The economic revolution of artificial intelligence and the communications lessons from Jeff Bezos

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