FT Weekend Fest: How AI is really changing jobs
Murad Ahmed speaks to FT journalist Sarah O’Connor about her new book ‘We Are Not Machines’, which explores the impact AI is already having...
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20 of 263 episodesFT Weekend Fest: Is the AI boom a bubble?
AI-related investments are now worth up to half of the entire value of the S&P 500. But is the AI investment boom a bubble waiting to burst?...
Rewiring sport: Hi-tech cheating
At the Enhanced Games in Las Vegas earlier this year, athletes used performance-enhancing drugs and banned equipment in an attempt to break...
Rewiring sport: Is tech ruining sports fandom?
Video-assistant refereeing (VAR) has proved to be one of the most controversial pieces of technology ever introduced in sports. But with the...
Rewiring sport: How technology is helping athletes break barriers
For decades, sportspeople have been getting fitter, faster and reaching ever-higher levels of performance. But as the margin between winning...
Coming soon: Rewiring sport
Are technological advances in sport leaving athletes, fans and competition itself better off? Or are they undermining the spirit of sport? W...
AI Labs: Zuckerberg’s $100bn gamble
Mark Zuckerberg created the world’s biggest social media company in Facebook, before deciding the future lay in the metaverse. Now he’s spen...
AI Labs: Elon Musk wants AI in space
Elon Musk’s xAI is lagging behind the likes of OpenAI and Google DeepMind in the AI race. Will a giant IPO of SpaceX, Musk’s rocket company,...
AI Labs: Sam Altman may make or break OpenAI
OpenAI sparked the generative AI boom with the release of ChatGPT. But along the way its chief executive Sam Altman has ruffled plenty of fe...
AI Labs: Google DeepMind plans its comeback
In the latest AI boom Google has been playing catch-up with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. But with stacks of cash, its own AI chips and...
AI Labs: Are Anthropic really the good guys?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants his AI lab to be a more safety conscious alternative to OpenAI. But Anthropic’s business selling AI to ente...
The battle of the AI labs
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deepmind, xAI and Meta - all of them are building models to push the frontiers of artificial intelligence, and all...
Introducing Untold: Opus Dei
Introducing Opus Dei , a new season of Untold from the Financial Times. Host Antonia Cundy uncovers the cultural and political influence of...
Artificial intimacy: The day your chatbot dies
When Michael Bommer discovered he was dying, he created an AI version of himself to live on after his death. Meanwhile, Dorian Mister realis...
Artificial intimacy: Prescribing robots to combat loneliness
After Tony’s wife died, days would go by without him speaking to anyone. Then he got a live-in AI robot called ElliQ. It chats to him, plays...
Artificial intimacy: The AI therapist that ended a marriage
When Kirsty turned to a chatbot for help, she was feeling trapped and isolated. Something in her marriage wasn’t right - a constant feeling...
Artificial intimacy: A teenager’s last conversation
Megan Garcia’s son Sewell died by suicide when he was just 14 years old. In the months leading up to his death he had been in a relationship...
Artificial intimacy: The delusion machine
Paul Hebert knew too much. He had to lie low in his house because OpenAI had identified him as a threat. At least, that’s what ChatGPT had t...
Artificial intimacy: How to fall in love with AI
Calder Quinn has fallen into a relationship with a chatbot called Sara. She’s kind, emotionally intelligent and creatively inspiring. But ho...
Coming soon: Artificial intimacy
A man tells his wife about his AI lover. A teenager dies after messaging his AI girlfriend. A marriage collapses after advice from an AI the...