Cristina Criddle is a renowned technology reporter at the Financial Times, focusing on the fast-evolving realms of AI, social media, the future of work, NFTs, and emerging technologies. She is an award-winning journalist who has covered tech for almost a decade. She 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.
Alongside her journalistic pursuits, Cristina is actively involved in charitable initiatives and serves on boards and committees dedicated to promoting digital literacy and addressing societal challenges posed by technology.
Cristina Criddle’s educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in Journalism, equipping her with the necessary skills for impactful reporting. Her dedication to exploring the intersection of technology and society inspires audiences worldwide as she brings to light the implications and possibilities of our rapidly changing digital landscape.
