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What kind of art can AI produce?
30 september 2019 · 20 min
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy puts his theories about creative AI to the test before a live audience at the recent FT Weekend Festival in London. Lees meer
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John Maeda on designing the future
23 september 2019 · 28 min
Design guru John Maeda tells Tim Bradshaw why he thinks a diversity of viewpoints and listening to what consumers want will be more valuable to the companies of the future than creating the next breakthrough technology. Lees meer
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Sarah Chan on neural interfaces
16 september 2019 · 24 min
Bioethicist Sarah Chan contributed to a report this month on neurotechnology by the UK’s senior scientific academy. She talks to John Thornhill about the potential health benefits of neural interfaces but also the difficulty of regulating the commercial use of devices that interact with our brains. Read the Royal Society's report here Lees meer
All FT stories will be free to read on Wednesday September 18th when there will be a 24-hour paywall freeze. Here are a couple of recommendations to get you started:
Neural interfaces should upgrade, not degrade, humans
How China dodged a trade war recession
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Alice Bentinck on harnessing tech talent
9 september 2019 · 24 min
Alice Bentinck, co-founder of Entrepreneur First, tells John Thornhill about her mission to harness the entrepreneurial talents of a new generation of people from diverse backgrounds. Lees meer
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Improving decision making through AI
2 september 2019 · 26 min
Vishal Chatrath, chief executive and co-founder of Prowler, tells John Thornhill how his company is helping to improve decision making in the worlds of finance and logistics. Lees meer
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Priya Lakhani on AI's power to transform education
26 augustus 2019 · 30 min
Priya Lakhani, founder and chief executive AI company Century Tech, talks to John Thornhill about her mission to improve the life chances of students around the world using AI-assisted learning. Lees meer
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Nicolas Berggruen on democracy in the digital age
19 augustus 2019 · 24 min
John Thornhill talks to the billionaire investor and philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen about his book: Renovating Democracy: Governing in the Age of Globalization and Digital Capitalism Lees meer
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Ben Goertzel on benevolent robots
12 augustus 2019 · 36 min
Ben Goertzel talks to John Thornhill about his work for Hanson Robotics, the company that created the robot Sophia, about SingularityNET, the blockchain-based AI marketplace he founded, and about his belief that artificial general intelligence, transhumanism and benevolent robots are not too far in the future Lees meer
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Frances Arnold on directed evolution of enzymes
5 augustus 2019 · 30 min
Nobel laureate Frances Arnold talks to Anjana Ahuja about her pioneering a work harnessing the power of nature to engineer enzymes, her long career and the challenges faced by women in science. Lees meer
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Digital printing for the fourth industrial revolution
29 juli 2019 · 28 min
Joseph DeSimone, chief executive of Carbon, talks to Richard Waters about the manufacturing technique he invented that can craft objects in seconds using the power of light and digital projection systems Lees meer
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Directing innovation towards sustainable growth
22 juli 2019 · 32 min
John Thornhill talks to economist Mariana Mazzucato about her work to promote collaboration between governments and companies to direct innovation towards sustainable and inclusive growth. Lees meer
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Paul Clarke on robotics and digital twins
15 juli 2019 · 31 min
Paul Clarke, chief technology officer at the online grocery Ocado, talks to John Thornhill about how the use of robotics, machine learning and digital twins is taking the business to a new level and even helping to plan the cities of the future. Lees meer
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Jennifer Doudna on gene editing
8 juli 2019 · 30 min
Jennifer Doudna talks to Richard Waters, the FT's San Francisco bureau chief, about how she discovered the CRISPR Cas-9 system and how it is transforming the world of gene editing. Lees meer
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John Browne on engineering the future
1 juli 2019 · 26 min
John Thornhill talks to Lord John Browne, former chief executive of BP, about his book: Make, Think, Imagine on engineering and the future of civilisation. Lees meer
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Nathan Jurgenson on social media and the selfie
24 juni 2019 · 32 min
Nathan Jurgenson, sociologist at Snapchat’s parent company Snap, talks to Tim Bradshaw about his book The Social Photo and about how the smartphone camera is changing the way we communicate Lees meer
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Eric Topol on making healthcare more human
17 juni 2019 · 29 min
Hannah Kuchler talks to American cardiologist Eric Topol about his book Deep Medicine, which looks at the potential for artificial intelligence technology to help free up doctors to spend more time with their patients. Lees meer
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New season starts on Monday
12 juni 2019 · 1 min
Tech Tonic, the podcast that looks at the way technology is changing our lives, is returning for a news season starting on Monday 17th June. We’ll be talking to Eric Topol, the US cardiologist, about the ways in which the work of doctors can be enhanced by AI, Nathan Jurgenson on social media and the selfy, and John Browne, former head of BP, on engineering and the future of civilisation, and many more. So tune in next week Lees meer
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Andrew Ng on building an AI workforce
17 april 2019 · 24 min
Artificial intelligence expert Andrew Ng talks to John Thornhill about his concern that AI technology is concentrating wealth in the hands of a few and why we need to spread AI skills and understanding across society. Lees meer
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Rana Yared on investing in fintech
10 april 2019 · 23 min
John Thonhill talks to Rana Yared, a partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs’ Principal Strategic Investments, about how technology is transforming the banking industry. Lees meer
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Marcus du Sautoy on creative AI
3 april 2019 · 27 min
John Thornhill talks to Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy about his book: The Creativity Code: How AI is Learning to Write, Paint and Think Lees meer
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James Vlahos on voice technology
27 maart 2019 · 23 min
Elaine Moore talks to American journalist James Vlahos about the chatbot he created to keep the memory of this father alive and about the potential uses and misuses of voice technology. Lees meer
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Peter Schwartz on automating the brain
20 maart 2019 · 24 min
Peter Schwartz, senior vice-president of strategic planning at Salesforce, futurist and author, talks to John Thornhill about the impact on our society of the next wave of technology. Lees meer
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Tim Berners-Lee on reshaping the web
12 maart 2019 · 25 min
John Thornhill talks to Tim Berners-Lee about the achievements of the world wide web which he invented 30 years ago, what he thinks has gone wrong and what he is doing to help fix some of these problems. Lees meer
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Jack Conte on crowdfunding for creators
6 maart 2019 · 26 min
John Thornhill talks to Jack Conte about Patreon, the platform he invented to help creative artists receive a steadier income from modern-day patrons. Lees meer
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Jeni Tennison on data ethics
27 februari 2019 · 25 min
John Thornhill talks to Jeni Tennison, chief executive of the Open Data Institute, about her work in helping to develop best practice for the use and sharing of data. Lees meer
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James Williams on the attention economy
20 februari 2019 · 26 min
Former Google employee James Williams talks to John Thornhill about his book: Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy and why he turned to philosophy to try to understand how the tech industry is undermining our free will. Lees meer
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Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism
13 februari 2019 · 27 min
John Thornhill talks to the social scientist Shoshana Zuboff about her book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and what we need to do to reclaim the more benign impacts of the digital revolution. Lees meer
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Will Marshall on mapping the earth
6 februari 2019 · 25 min
John Thornhill talks to Will Marshall, whose San-Francisco-based start-up is helping companies like Google and Monsanto, as well as governments and NGOs, to observe day-to-day changes on the earth’s surface using data gathered in space. Lees meer
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Taavet Hinrikus on disrupting the banks
30 januari 2019 · 24 min
John Thornhill talks to Taavet Hinrikus, co-founder of Transferwise, about shaking up the lucrative money transfer business and how he helped build a tech unicorn that is not only highly valued but is profitable too. Lees meer
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AI and software's 'singular moment'
23 januari 2019 · 29 min
John Thornhill talks to Chris Bishop, director of Microsoft’s Cambridge research lab, about the potential for exponential growth in the development of software, thanks to machine learning. Lees meer
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The risks and rewards of gene-editing
16 januari 2019 · 30 min
Robin Lovell-Badge, developmental biologist and geneticist, talks to FT science columnist Anjana Ahuja about the gene-edited babies controversy in China and about the potential for new gene-editing techniques to transform the treatment of diseases like cancer and muscular dystrophy. Lees meer
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Vivienne Ming on solving human problems
9 januari 2019 · 32 min
John Thornhill talks to Vivienne Ming, a theoretical neuroscientist, entrepreneur and artificial intelligence guru about her work in trying to make technology work for the benefit of humans Lees meer
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Diego Piacentini on GovTech
2 januari 2019 · 28 min
The former Amazon executive tells John Thornhill how he applied the lessons he’d learnt at the US technology company to help transform Italians’ experience of dealing with government. Lees meer
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Trust in the digital age
26 december 2018 · 31 min
John Thornhill talks to the academic and author Rachel Botsman about the evolution of trust in the digital age and the way technology has undermined our faith in institutions Lees meer
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Graphcore's next generation chip technology
19 december 2018 · 25 min
Nigel Toon, founder and chief executive of Graphcore, talks to John Thornhill about the chip technology his company is developing and its potential to speed the advance of machine learning. Lees meer
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What robots can teach humans
12 december 2018 · 35 min
John Thornhill talks to Maja Pantic, Professor of Affective and Behavioural Computing at Imperial College in London, about her work testing the boundaries of human robot interaction. Lees meer
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Making the most of work chat
5 december 2018 · 26 min
Stewart Butterfield, co-founder and chief executive of San Francisco-based Slack tells John Thornhill how his fascination for technology that facilitates human interaction came about. Lees meer
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Artificial intelligence that learns on the fly
28 november 2018 · 18 min
Physicist Zdenka Kuncic tells FT science editor Clive Cookson about the difference between software-based and hardware-based approaches to artificial intelligence and her work to develop autonomous intelligent systems for potential use in space and in medical devices Lees meer
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The business of cybercrime
21 november 2018 · 24 min
Sociologist Jonathan Lusthaus spent seven years talking to cyber criminals. He tells Hannah Kuchler what he discovered about the extent of their involvement with organised crime and what he thinks it would take to persuade them to put their talents to better use. His book: Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime, was published by Harvard University Press. Lees meer
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Technology and the human brain
14 november 2018 · 26 min
Murali Doraiswamy, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Duke University Health System, tells Shannon Bond about his research into potential technological solutions to neurological and mental health disorders. Lees meer
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Investing in deep tech
7 november 2018 · 22 min
Investor Alice Newcombe-Ellis tells John Thornhill about her strategy for discovering and investing in the next generation of disruptive technology companies Lees meer
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Puncturing the AI hype
31 oktober 2018 · 24 min
Zia Chishti's latest business venture Afiniti uses artificial intelligence to match customers and employees, but he tells John Thornhill he sees the technology as evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, and offers his thoughts on the dos and don'ts of investing in AI. Lees meer
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Who sets the internet standards?
24 oktober 2018 · 24 min
Hannah Kuchler talks to American social scientist and cyber security expert Andrea Little Limbago about the worrying lack of agreement among governments on how best to promote the beneficial aspects of the internet. Lees meer
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David Sanger on cyber warfare
17 oktober 2018 · 31 min
John Thornhill talks to the New York Times journalist about his latest book: The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age. Lees meer
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Adrian Lovett on fighting for a better web
10 oktober 2018 · 27 min
Web Foundation president and CEO Adrian Lovett talks to John Thornhill about open data, net neutrality and widening global internet access. Lees meer
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell on new frontiers in astronomy
3 oktober 2018 · 22 min
Clive Cookson talks to astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell about her decision to give away her $3m Breakthrough Prize in physics and about what she sees as the most exciting new areas of future research. Lees meer
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Tristan Harris on digital Frankensteins
26 september 2018 · 28 min
The former Google employee turned campaigner has made it his mission to alert society about the dangers of using computer algorithms to capture our attention. He tells John Thornhill why he co-founded the Centre for Humane Technology and what it does. Lees meer
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Liberty and morality in the AI era
19 september 2018 · 25 min
Jamie Susskind, author of Future Politics, Verity Harding of Google DeepMind, and Tabitha Goldstaub, co-founder of CognitionX, discuss liberty and morality in the AI era in a panel debate recorded at the FT’s recent FT Weekend Festival in London. Lees meer
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Irene Ng on redistributing the economic power of data
12 september 2018 · 24 min
Entrepreneur and academic Irene Ng talks to John Thornhill about the Hub of all Things - a microserver that allows people to own and control their own data. Lees meer
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What's next for Dropbox?
5 september 2018 · 26 min
Drew Houston, co-founder of the business software company, tells John Thornhill how he caught the entrepreneurial bug and what's next for Dropbox. Lees meer
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