John Naughton
Columnist
John is an engineer, an academic (co-founder of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at Cambridge) and a journalist. He's also an historian of the internet, a photographer and a blogger, and in an earlier life was The Observer's TV Critic for eight happy years when TV was worth watching.
John Naughton
Columnist
John is an engineer, an academic (co-founder of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at Cambridge) and a journalist. He's also an historian of the internet, a photographer and a blogger, and in an earlier life was The Observer's TV Critic for eight happy years when TV was worth watching.
Paul McCartney stages a silent protest against AI
Meta fought the law and the law didn’t win
Amid a mental health crisis, building AI therapists may be good medicine
Would you pay an AI to read your book? Authors may soon not have any choice
Musk’s war on Wikipedia is a fight for a fact-free future
Social media is just TV now – and we can’t stop changing the channel
Is the AI bubble history repeating itself? Ask a chatbot
The wheels have come off Musk’s monstertruck
Here’s a video I’d like to share: Trump bagging TikTok for his investor pals
’Til ChatGPT do us part: how chatbots are breaking up marriages
The ‘three-sickbag spectacle’ of tech bros at the court of Trump 2.0
AI’s punctuation is only human – I love an em dash too
Park your fears, there's a roadmap to an electric car future
AI is like a lunch – there’s no such thing as a free one
My advice to Sam Altman: read Jacques Derrida
Zuckerberg’s sermon suggests Meta is lacking belief
America’s plan to use AI as a political weapon
Paying geeks $200m but slashing jobs? This is an AI bubble
AI tells us what we want to hear
