The Expert Factor

How will Keir Starmer's AI plan change government (and your lives)?

The Expert Factor

Show Notes

The robots are taking our jobs, we’re going to be a nation run by chatbots, and an all-seeing, all-powerful computer is set to know everything about all of us.

Well, not really.

But Keir Starmer says AI is poised to generate “incredible change in our country”

So what exactly is he talking about?

Helen Margetts, professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford and director of the Alan Turing Institute’s public policy programme, joins Hannah and Paul to explore what AI could mean for the private sector, for the public sector, and whether there are good reasons to be worried about what the future might hold... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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