Tweets Analysis - Keyword: @johnthornhillft
Overview
Total number of tweets analysed
13
Earliest tweet was on
2023-02-13
Latest tweet was on
2023-02-21
Tweets covering
7 days
Average age of authors' accounts
10 years
Summarization
John Thornhill and other experts have discussed the use of Artificial Intelligence in warfare and the possible risks it can bring. They have also noted that a computer was able to crack an existing security system and that there will always be limitations to even the most advanced AI's. Furthermore, it was brought up that it is essential for humans to maintain control of machines and to avoid lethal autonomous weapons systems. Lastly, it was mentioned that AI can be used for both good and bad and that there is no roadmap for the future.
Topic Modeling
- Artificial Intelligence in warfare
- Utilization of Artificial Intelligence in a positive light
- JohnThornhillFT and his articles
- Consequences of using Artificial Intelligence in warfare
- JohnThornhillFT and his opinion on various topics
Emotional Analysis
The emotions expressed in these tweets range from admiration and respect for John Thornhillft and McCain's observations, to concern and caution about the implications of using AI in warfare. There is also a sense of hope and optimism in the potential of AI to empower the good, as well as a sense of nostalgia and regret for what could have been had McCain been the Republican candidate in 2016. Finally, there is a feeling of uncertainty and confusion about the implications of AI in warfare and the lack of a roadmap to the future.
Trend Analysis
- The use of Artificial Intelligence in Warfare
- Importance of human control over machines
- Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
- Dangers of AI for good and bad guys
- Imagining new possibilities based on AI
Types of Tweets
Number of Retweets
4
Percentage of total tweets
30%
Number of Original tweets
3
Percentage of total tweets
23%
Number of tweets that contain Mentions
13
Percentage of total tweets
100%
Number of tweets that were Replies
5
Percentage of total tweets
38%
Number of tweets that were Quotes
3
Percentage of total tweets
23%
Number of tweets that contain Hashtags
1
Percentage of total tweets
7%
Top 5 devices used to tweet
Source | Count |
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Twitter Web App | 7 |
Twitter for iPhone | 6 |
What devices were used to tweet

Top 10 accounts with highest followers count
Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
---|---|---|---|
EdwardGLuce | Edward Luce | Associate Editor, Financial Times, US-based writer/columnist. Author The Retreat of Western Liberalism, In Spite of the Gods, Time to Start Thinking. My views. | 120,484 |
KaminskiMK | Matthew Kaminski | editor in chief @politico; founding editor @POLITICOEurope | 18,099 |
Philippe_FQSP | Philippe Ùđ«đ· | Team @Nouv_Energie, suivi par @davidlisnard, souverainiste, conservateur et libĂ©ral ! Ne supporte ni les extrĂȘmes, ni lâarrogance du nouveau monde ! | 8,323 |
mgubrud | Mark Gubrud | Physicist, teacher, analyst & advocate in tech, arms control & human security. Idea man. Your broken Overton window is blighting the neighborhood. Dr./Dude/Dad | 2,319 |
henrycobb | Henry Cobb | Information systems rather than real estate architect, and not your basketball coach.This is my personal account and has no relation to https://t.co/gwZxUinacg | 1,020 |
IsraelCL | Israel Cedillo | Director of Research and Graduate Studies, and Assoc Prof of IP/IT Law and FinReg at @udlap. @UoELawSchool (PhD). Co-Founder of @LawScottish and @soldigmx. SNI | 909 |
pmaher | Paul Maher | Deep Tech, Category defining, Curious for life. | 848 |
wilfriedremans | Wilfried Remans | Head of Sustainability Network @BNPParibas; from Brussels zooming in on #sustainablefinance #ESG #EUGreenDeal #sustainableaviation #IHL. Tweets are my own. | 717 |
A_Reader_FT | A Reader | Just a subscriber. I don't work for the newspaper. Climate change is the big time issue. | 671 |
marcellokurtz | Marcello Kurtz | Confusion. Will be my epitaph.Ogni romano Ăš n'bon tifoso e sĂ strillĂ | 315 |
Top 10 accounts with highest friends count
Username | Name | Bio | Followers count |
---|---|---|---|
Philippe_FQSP | Philippe Ùđ«đ· | Team @Nouv_Energie, suivi par @davidlisnard, souverainiste, conservateur et libĂ©ral ! Ne supporte ni les extrĂȘmes, ni lâarrogance du nouveau monde ! | 9,145 |
marcellokurtz | Marcello Kurtz | Confusion. Will be my epitaph.Ogni romano Ăš n'bon tifoso e sĂ strillĂ | 5,000 |
IsraelCL | Israel Cedillo | Director of Research and Graduate Studies, and Assoc Prof of IP/IT Law and FinReg at @udlap. @UoELawSchool (PhD). Co-Founder of @LawScottish and @soldigmx. SNI | 2,858 |
KaminskiMK | Matthew Kaminski | editor in chief @politico; founding editor @POLITICOEurope | 1,810 |
EdwardGLuce | Edward Luce | Associate Editor, Financial Times, US-based writer/columnist. Author The Retreat of Western Liberalism, In Spite of the Gods, Time to Start Thinking. My views. | 1,797 |
wilfriedremans | Wilfried Remans | Head of Sustainability Network @BNPParibas; from Brussels zooming in on #sustainablefinance #ESG #EUGreenDeal #sustainableaviation #IHL. Tweets are my own. | 1,443 |
henrycobb | Henry Cobb | Information systems rather than real estate architect, and not your basketball coach.This is my personal account and has no relation to https://t.co/gwZxUinacg | 1,009 |
A_Reader_FT | A Reader | Just a subscriber. I don't work for the newspaper. Climate change is the big time issue. | 981 |
mgubrud | Mark Gubrud | Physicist, teacher, analyst & advocate in tech, arms control & human security. Idea man. Your broken Overton window is blighting the neighborhood. Dr./Dude/Dad | 964 |
pmaher | Paul Maher | Deep Tech, Category defining, Curious for life. | 825 |
Most active users
Username | Bio | Number of tweets |
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8521eth27201933 | â | 1 |
A_Reader_FT | Just a subscriber. I don't work for the newspaper. Climate change is the big time issue. | 1 |
AlainDomitille | Responsable editorial Paris Financial Times | 1 |
EdwardGLuce | Associate Editor, Financial Times, US-based writer/columnist. Author The Retreat of Western Liberalism, In Spite of the Gods, Time to Start Thinking. My views. | 1 |
IsraelCL | Director of Research and Graduate Studies, and Assoc Prof of IP/IT Law and FinReg at @udlap. @UoELawSchool (PhD). Co-Founder of @LawScottish and @soldigmx. SNI | 1 |
JennyD53619644 | Bionic cat created in secret CIA lab in Ukraine | 1 |
KaminskiMK | editor in chief @politico; founding editor @POLITICOEurope | 1 |
Philippe_FQSP | Team @Nouv_Energie, suivi par @davidlisnard, souverainiste, conservateur et libĂ©ral ! Ne supporte ni les extrĂȘmes, ni lâarrogance du nouveau monde ! | 1 |
henrycobb | Information systems rather than real estate architect, and not your basketball coach.This is my personal account and has no relation to https://t.co/gwZxUinacg | 1 |
marcellokurtz | Confusion. Will be my epitaph.Ogni romano Ăš n'bon tifoso e sĂ strillĂ | 1 |
Tweets per day

Top 10 tweets with highest Retweet count
ID | Text | Retweet count |
---|---|---|
1625163578750775297 | Aged well. Not just @johnthornhillft https://t.co/MoTZwZPvxq | 9 |
1627613744195936259 | You are the best ARTBLOCKS. @yusufsakke @chwwkan @AndreMatis1 @TorbenMtom @CamavingaFn @herseymaine @johnthornhillft @Ryeee3bread @geertsbas https://t.co/pJ9dDgEAIk | 0 |
1627046426579705858 | One of the broader principles about AI that is easy to enunciate, and near-impossible to enact, is that humans should always remain in control of machines. Algorithms should never⊠https://t.co/edRVK7xH5z @ftopinion @johnthornhillft | 0 |
1627000083236499458 | Opinion article by âŠ@johnthornhillftâ© on the use of artificial intelligence in warfare #AI, including the dangers of lethal autonomous weapons systems, via @FT #killerrobots #responsableAI #IHL https://t.co/Ug9ZYLFHCt | 0 |
1626933714541490177 | @johnthornhillft Actually, a computer cracked it. This episode really doesn't support Russell' comment (not that I necessarily disagree with it). It does show that even superintelligence cannot be flawless and may well have major blindspots. https://t.co/ErlUTd40E2 | 0 |
1626913997021929473 | @johnthornhillft @DaanKayser The long line of robotic dominoes that the enemy of freedom will expend such efforts to so carefully line up will never worry about that one critical tap.But then again Automated Interpolation never worries about anything. | 0 |
1626509293481562113 | AI warfare can empower the bad guys as well as the good. The conduct of war is rapidly entering radically new territory and we have no road map to the future. @johnthornhillft @ftopinion https://t.co/YlgBXf02GZ | 0 |
1625459089064046597 | @KaminskiMK @johnthornhillft Imaging a world where he was the Republican candidate in 2016 | 0 |
1625177521888141312 | @johnthornhillft @zosiawanat @Siftedeu Did we miss out here?? | 0 |
1625165036288188417 | @KaminskiMK @johnthornhillft aged remarkably well. And McCain's observations have too. | 0 |
Top 10 tweets with highest Like count
ID | Text | Like count |
---|---|---|
1625163578750775297 | Aged well. Not just @johnthornhillft https://t.co/MoTZwZPvxq | 49 |
1625165036288188417 | @KaminskiMK @johnthornhillft aged remarkably well. And McCain's observations have too. | 11 |
1626933714541490177 | @johnthornhillft Actually, a computer cracked it. This episode really doesn't support Russell' comment (not that I necessarily disagree with it). It does show that even superintelligence cannot be flawless and may well have major blindspots. https://t.co/ErlUTd40E2 | 2 |
1627613744195936259 | You are the best ARTBLOCKS. @yusufsakke @chwwkan @AndreMatis1 @TorbenMtom @CamavingaFn @herseymaine @johnthornhillft @Ryeee3bread @geertsbas https://t.co/pJ9dDgEAIk | 0 |
1627046426579705858 | One of the broader principles about AI that is easy to enunciate, and near-impossible to enact, is that humans should always remain in control of machines. Algorithms should never⊠https://t.co/edRVK7xH5z @ftopinion @johnthornhillft | 0 |
1627000083236499458 | Opinion article by âŠ@johnthornhillftâ© on the use of artificial intelligence in warfare #AI, including the dangers of lethal autonomous weapons systems, via @FT #killerrobots #responsableAI #IHL https://t.co/Ug9ZYLFHCt | 0 |
1626913997021929473 | @johnthornhillft @DaanKayser The long line of robotic dominoes that the enemy of freedom will expend such efforts to so carefully line up will never worry about that one critical tap.But then again Automated Interpolation never worries about anything. | 0 |
1626509293481562113 | AI warfare can empower the bad guys as well as the good. The conduct of war is rapidly entering radically new territory and we have no road map to the future. @johnthornhillft @ftopinion https://t.co/YlgBXf02GZ | 0 |
1625459089064046597 | @KaminskiMK @johnthornhillft Imaging a world where he was the Republican candidate in 2016 | 0 |
1625177521888141312 | @johnthornhillft @zosiawanat @Siftedeu Did we miss out here?? | 0 |
Top 3 Languages Used In Tweets

Top 10 Hashtags used
Hashtag | Count |
---|---|
#ai | 1 |
#killerrobots | 1 |
#responsableai | 1 |
#ihl | 1 |
Top 10 Hashtags Used In Tweets

Top 10 mentions
Mention | Count |
---|---|
@johnthornhillft | 13 |
@kaminskimk | 3 |
@ftopinion | 2 |
@yusufsakke | 1 |
@chwwkan | 1 |
@andrematis1 | 1 |
@torbenmtom | 1 |
@camavingafn | 1 |
@herseymaine | 1 |
@ryeee3bread | 1 |
Top 10 mentions

Wordcloud of Tweets
