FT Tech Tonic
Hosted by Murad Ahmed and Cristina Criddle and Josh Noble and Madhumita Murgia · Financial Times
4.8from 465 ratings
- 266
- Episodes
- 84
- Transcribed
- 465
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
About FT Tech Tonic
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 technological age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Financial Times
- Category
- news · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 Oct 2016
- Latest episode
- 4 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
84 of 266 episodes have a transcript.
4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bill Gates: AI bioweapons ‘could be worse than Covid’
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Inside a recent episode
Bill Gates: AI bioweapons ‘could be worse than Covid’
Published 4 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] On the biosecurity front, it's to have massive detection where you're looking at air, sewage, blood, and trying to catch infections that when it's still affecting a thousand or 10,000 and not let it get to a million, 10 million, a hundred million, you know, that kind of surveillance can be done and the cost would actually be reasonable. […]
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- Bill Gates
- Audrey Tang
- Matthew Rycroft
- Alain de Botton
- Sarah O’Connor
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 93 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 372 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100
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- Quality
- 80
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 91
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Questions about FT Tech Tonic
Who hosts FT Tech Tonic?
Murad Ahmed and Cristina Criddle and Josh Noble and Madhumita Murgia host the show. Published by Financial Times.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes monthly, based on its RSS feed.
Does FT Tech Tonic take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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