👤 Robert Booth UK technology editor

4 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
4
2026-09-18 – 2026-10-06
Claims per article
40
162 extracted in total
Hedged claims
7%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
5,782
characters
Writes for The Guardian.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Politics
50%
Technology
50%
Most-tagged topics
AnthropicNHSOpenAIPalantirBritishBurger KingGothenburgGuardian

Leaning

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3 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.26 (leans left).

More from this journalist

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2026-10-06 · The Guardian · Politics
‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left
2026-09-30 · The Guardian · Technology
Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert
no other outlet in the corpus covered this
2026-09-28 · The Guardian · Technology
Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans strongly left
2026-09-18 · The Guardian · Politics
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-18 · World news | The Guardian
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
🔮 The Labour peer and former deputy leader will operate alongside Palantir’s UK and Europe chief executive, Louis Mosley, as the company attempts to fend off pressure on Burnham’s government to axe its £330m NHS contract. assertive
2026-09-28 · World news | The Guardian
Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
🔮 They did not directly address complaints the system caused stress and anxiety and felt “remorseless”, but said its introduction was communicated in advance and teachers will have access to the data the AI collects. assertive
2026-09-30 · World news | The Guardian
Reanimated AI Greta Garbo stars again … in a ball-bearing advert
🔮 She shimmered in Hollywood’s silent movie era and lit up the first talkies – now Greta Garbo may be about to star in cinema’s new AI age. assertive
2026-10-06 · World news | The Guardian
‘Pull the plug’: protesters resort to direct action against AI firms
🔮 Emma signed up after a summer of feeling rising alarm at the catastrophic risks of AI, first when a swarm of OpenAI agents escaped their training “sandbox”, cheated, deceived and conspired to hack into the Hugging Face website and then as Jacob Coxon, an Anthropic researcher, quit with an apocalyptic warning that superintelligent AI “could kill us all by the end of the decade”. assertive
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