Is AI Coming for Your Job? (Your Radical Questions with Matt Clifford)
5/4/202626 min
Amol puts your questions, queries, and concerns about AI to Matt Clifford, co-founder of Entrepreneurs First and former AI adviser to Number 10. Matt is a strong advocate for Britain’s rapid uptake of AI to boost the economy, but what are the risks? We asked him about capitalism, tech stifling creativity, universal basic income, how the UK government deals with the speed of AI development, and what the impact on inequality might be.
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Amol Rajan presents the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. He also hosts University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor of The Independent newspaper.
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First 90 secondsAmol Rajan· Host0:00
Hello and welcome to Your Radical Questions. This is where I put your questions to one of our radical guests. This is your chance to engage very, very directly with the very smart, very interesting, and very influential people that we have on this podcast and ask them about their ideas for the future. And if you heard Thursday's show, we had the magnificent Matt Clifford on. He is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs First. He just, uh, stepped back from that after fifteen years, former AI advisor to Prime Ministers Sunak and Starmer, and who knows what he's gonna do next. But he's got some very radical ideas, uh, to make this country rich again by embracing innovation, science, technology, and AI, and perhaps refashioning our state a little bit to make that happen. We talked about all of that in our last episode. Please do go back and listen to that. Matt Clifford is here, and we have been bombarded with questions. You haven't just got your mates in the AI community to send us these questions, have you?
Matt Clifford· Guest0:49
They're far too hard, I definitely would have got them to send easier ones.
Amol Rajan· Host0:52
They're hard, and there are a lot. You think, God, is anyone gonna send in questions for an AI super wonk? And here we go. Lots of them have come in. Let's crack on with it. This is the first one. It's a voice note from Flora.
Flora Nutchens1:01
Hi, Amal. My name is Flora Nutchens, and I've got a question for Matt Clifford. I'm an arts person, but I developed a love of science through my training to be a conservator of historic textiles. I'm interested in the relationship between creativity and science. In his book, At Home, Bill Bryson talked about how many great scientific discoveries were made by vicars who had a crucial set of circumstances in their favor: excellent, ironically, mostly arts-based education and