Journalist

Kenn’s writing focuses on technology, primarily artificial intelligence and big data, as well as business, governance, economics and international relations.

The Economic Implications of AI

CHATAM HOUSE, 2018: Artificial intelligence will shake up the economy in counter-intuitive ways. It may dramatically increase productivity and potentially even create jobs. But poor countries' development model may be clobbered.

Data and the secret scramble for AI’s soul

The key resource of the AI era is labeled training data, and a quiet rivalry is on to get it. Clever firms rely on user interactions — and the “data exhaust” this generates — to improve their services in a continuous feedback loop.

A world of connections

New wireless technologies will link not just people but lots of objects too. That will be tremendously useful, but getting there will be tricky