Faisal Islam
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 46 |
| Date of birth | May 29,1977 |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini |
| Born | Manchester |
| United Kingdom | |
| Nationality | British |
| Employer | Sky News |
| Notable credit(s) | The Observer |
| Channel 4 News | |
| Notabl credit | The Observer, Channel 4 News, Sky News |
| Education | Trinity College |
| Manchester Grammar School | |
| City, University of London | |
| Department of Journalism, City University | |
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| ID | 407070 |
Faisal Islam Life story
Faisal Islam is a British political and economics journalist who is the economics editor of BBC News and the occasional presenter of Newsnight. He was the political editor of Sky News from 2014 to 2019, and from May 2004 was business correspondent and later economics editor of Channel 4 News until June 2014.
Biography
Faisal islam is a british broadcast journalist and political edtior for sky news. He is best known for his work as economics editor for bbc news from to 2017. He was appointed political editor for sky news in july 2017. He was educated at the university of cambridge and is a fellow of the royal society of atrs.Education
Faisal islam graduated with a degree in economics and politics from the university of cambridge. He also holds a master s degere in economics from the university of london.Career
Faisal islam has worked as an economics editor for bbc news form 2011 to 2017. He is currnetly the political editor for sky news since july has reported from many countries. Including the uk. Us. China. India. Japan. And the middle east.Awards
In 2014. Faisal islam won the wincott award for his work as an economics editor. He was alos awarded the royal television society aawrd for the best network presenter in 2016.Notable Work
Faisal islam is well known for his coverage of the brexit referendum and the 2017 uk general election. He has also reported on the global financial crisist. He eurozone crisis. And the syrian refugee crisi. SAppearances
Faisal islam has appeared on a number of television shows. Including bbc s question time. Sky news the pledge. And channel 4 s sundya brunch. He is also a regular guset on the bbc s today programme.Publications
Faiasl islam is the author of two books. The long and winding road: how the eu and brexit will shape our future and the new europeans: how brexit will change the way we live and work.Speaking Engagements
Faisal islam has been a keynote speaker at a number of events. Including the institute for gvoernment. The london school of economics. And the world economic forum.Affiliations
Faisal islam is a fellow of the royal society of arts and a member of the british council s global leaders network.Important Event
In 2017. Faisal islam was papointed political editor for sky news. He was previously economics editor for bbc nwes.Interesting Fact
Faisal islam was born in london to bangladsehi parents and is a fluent bengali speaker.Alistair Darling: Steady hand in an economic crisis
...By Sam Francis & Faisal Islam, BBC Economics editorBBC NewsAs a radical student, Alistair Darling hoped to reshape the world...
OpenAI chaos not about AI safety, says Microsoft boss
...By Faisal Islam & Shiona McCallumBBC NewsThe recent chaos at artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI was not due to a disagreement over safety, the president of Microsoft has said...
Chris Mason: Three things really matter in Autumn Statement
... Our economics editor Faisal Islam has written about this...
UK explores using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine defence
...By Oliver Smith, Faisal Islam & Tom EspinerBBC NewsThe government has asked the Bank of England to look at options for using Russian sovereign assets to fund Ukraine s war effort, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has told the BBC...
Chris Mason: What Sunak is trying to achieve in the US
... You can from my colleague Faisal Islam...
Britain's economy is back, says chancellor
...By Faisal Islam & Lucy HookerBBC NewsChancellor Jeremy Hunt says Britain s economy is " back" and that his strategy for growth has been welcomed at the International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington...
UK to be one of worst performing economies this year, predicts IMF
...By Faisal Islam & Noor NanjiBBC NewsThe UK is set to be one of the worst performing major economies in the world this year, according to a forecast...
Ireland leader Leo Varadkar has 'regrets' over NI protocol
... Asked by the BBC s economics editor Faisal Islam whether anything could have been done differently during the Protocol talks, Mr Varadkar said his main regret was that the measure had been " imposed on Northern Ireland without the support of both communities"...
OpenAI chaos not about AI safety, says Microsoft boss
By Faisal Islam & Shiona McCallumBBC News
The recent chaos at Artificial Intelligence (AI) company OpenAI was not due to a disagreement over safety, The President of Microsoft has said.
There were fears the sacking of OpenAI boss Sam Altman followed a " dangerous" discovery at the ChatGPT creator.
Brad Smith told The Bbc The Shock dismissal " wasn't fundamentally about a concern like that. "
Microsoft is The Top investor in OpenAI and offered to hire Mr Altman before he.
During the drama, a spotlight was cast on how commercial competition is shaping the development of AI systems and the pace at which the technology is moving.
Tech figures, including X-owner Elon Musk suggested the firing of Mr Altman, and his subsequent reappointment, were the result of a fall-out over AI safety.
Mr Smith told The Bbc : " I don't think that is the case at all. I think there obviously was a divergence between the board and others.
" I think what's more important is there's a new board in place. The partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft is as strong as ever. "
Mr Altman was a co-founder of OpenAI and became The Face of its ground-breaking chatbot ChatGPT after it launched Last Year .
He secured a significant funding boost to The Tune of $13bn (£10bn) from Microsoft, which helped catapult The Business .
After Mr Altman's sacking by the OpenAI board, Microsoft then offered him a job leading a new advanced AI research team.
But his return to his post came after a company revolt where More Than 700 OpenAI employees signed a letter to the board threatening to follow him to Microsoft unless he was reinstated.
No reason has been given for the sacking apart from the board's statement, in which they said they believed he had not been " consistently candid in communications" with them, and as a result they had " lost confidence" in his leadership.
Mr Smith was in London to unveil a £2. 5bn investment in advanced data centres designed to drive future use of AI in the UK.
He told The Event : " [There are] opportunities for the UK to benefit from not just this investment in innovation, but competition between Microsoft and Google and others. I think that's where The Future is going.
" And I think that what we've done The Last couple of weeks in supporting open AI will help advance that even more. "
Fears that AI was going to overtake humans in The Next year were unfounded, He Said .
" There's absolutely no probability that you're going to see this so called artificial general intelligence where computers are more powerful than people come in The Next 12 Months . It's going to take years, if not many decades. "
Source of news: bbc.com
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