Show Notes
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Baroness Kidron completed Hollywood. She could be living the high life. Instead she's outchea trying to take down the latest Frankenstein of Capitalism: Big Tech.
Beeban is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and has dedicated the latter stage of her career to keeping children safe online. It's somehow a contentious topic. Are children safe on the internet? Or has our generation been exposed to irreparable harms?
We discuss all this and more: what does AI sovereignty look like? How has Britain been captured by American corporate interests? What can we do to fight back?
Chapters 00:00 Intro 02:15 Growing Up With Socials 07:20 Gen-Z, The Anxious Generation? 13:08 Does Big Tech Own Us? 17:03 Corporate America's Capture of Westminster 22:00 How the Tech Broligarchy Took Over 26:35 AI Sovereignty 32:05 What Could Spark the Anti-Big-Tech Revolution 39:15 The UK's AI Security Institute 43:23 Temporarily Embarassed Millionaires 48:14 Destruction of Real Life Communities 52:15 Britain's Dependency On US Tech 56:45 Gen-Z and Unemployment 1:03:01 Left-Wing Patriotism and National Service
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We're delighted to be joined by the Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP. In our first episode from Labour Conference 2026, we discuss the backlash to AI doomsday warnings, the fragility of the AI economy and how this tech will be used - to the benefit or detriment of workers. As listeners will know, we've approached AI with a healthy dose of scepticism. Technology is itself neutral but the politics emerges in its application. We have plenty examples in history of how industrial revolutions disempowered workers before inevitable backlash and revolution. Do we need to wait for things to get bad? Or does the UK have a serious plan for a future that harnesses the white heat of technology? We delve into all of this and more, asking how the UK is preparing for the moral mission of worker-centric AI.
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