Cristina Criddle
Financial Times Technology Correspondent specialising in AI, based San Francisco, former Senior BBC Technology Reporter.
Cristina Criddle is a creative multi-platform reporter and producer, with strong experience initiating and delivering original journalism with a wide reach. Having worked in newspapers, television, radio and podcasts, she’s confident in translating stories to each medium. Cristina maintain a digital-first focus ensuring there is bespoke content for online and social with coverage. She specialise in technology, investigations and using digital means to originate stories, contacts and voices.
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About Cristina Criddle
Cristina Criddle is the Financial Times’s Technology Correspondent, specialising in coverage on Artificial Intelligence. She moved to San Francisco for the role. Prior to that, she spent three years as the FT’s Technology Correspondent based in London.
An award-winning journalist, Cristina has covered tech for a decade and regularly breaks exclusive stories on tech companies such as Meta, Google, OpenAI, and TikTok.
Cristina is a specialist speaker on Artificial Intelligence. She examines how AI has entered the consumer market, with the mass adoption of advanced models like Chat GPT becoming common. She can also speak to enterprise AI and how developments are transforming workplaces. She highlights the need for regulation, action and agency as the AI arms race continues, raising huge questions for humanity.
Previously, Cristina was a technology reporter at the BBC, working across TV, radio and online, including on the Today Programme and BBC Breakfast. She also produced the leading BBC 3 documentary, the Instagram Effect, featuring exclusive testimony from insiders about how the platform impacts wellbeing.
In 2022, after writing a series of stories on the company’s operations in London and Europe, TikTok admitted in December that staff at ByteDance had tracked Cristina through her cat’s account in an attempt to identify her sources. She was the only British journalist this happened to, and the actions included surveilling physical location data as well as other personal information.
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Artificial Intelligence Speech
AI has now entered the consumer market, with mass adoption of advanced models like Chat GPT coming into common use and transforming workplaces. It will change how we work and live our daily lives, and people need to fully understand the impact of these technologies and how they must be regulated before it is too late. Politicians have spoken about not repeating the mistakes with social media, but action and agency is needed now, because the AI arms race is showing no signs of slowing down and raises huge questions for humanity.
The Metaverse
Technology trends
Quantum computing
Chatbots
Wearables and Health tech
Autonomous cars and transport
3D printing and maker culture
Industrial design
Future of luxury brands
Crowd-funding culture
Fashion technology
Luxury technology
Technology mega trends
Web3 and crypto
What is the real Metaverse?
The next decade of health
Automation and robotics
Quantum computing
Digital Disruption
Retail disruption