FT Tech Tonic

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FT Tech Tonic episodes

October 31, 2018 Puncturing the AI hype
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.
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24 min
October 24, 2018 Who sets the internet standards?
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.
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25 min
October 17, 2018 David Sanger on cyber warfare
John Thornhill talks to the New York Times journalist about his latest book: The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age.
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31 min
October 10, 2018 Adrian Lovett on fighting for a better web
Web Foundation president and CEO Adrian Lovett talks to John Thornhill about open data, net neutrality and widening global internet access.

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28 min
October 03, 2018 Jocelyn Bell Burnell on new frontiers in astronomy
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.
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23 min
September 26, 2018 Tristan Harris on digital Frankensteins
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.
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28 min
September 19, 2018 Liberty and morality in the AI era
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.
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26 min
September 12, 2018 Irene Ng on redistributing the economic power of data
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.

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24 min
September 05, 2018 What's next for Dropbox?
Drew Houston, co-founder of the business software company, tells John Thornhill how he caught the entrepreneurial bug and what's next for Dropbox.
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27 min
August 29, 2018 Tech Tonic returns
John Thorhill and guests return for a news series of Tech Tonic, the show that looks at the way technology is changing our lives.
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2 min

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We are in the midst of a digital revolution, where the line between our physical world and cyberspace is blurring. Tech Tonic is the show that investigates the promises and perils of this new…