Alastair Campbell

And oh my God, I was doing that.

So it's all painfully familiar.

No, she's in a good place now.

She's in a good place now.

I think it's because it's hard to understand.

It's easy to understand at a very, very, very superficial level.

And if you want to just echo the same talking points as absolutely everybody else, then you can probably get away with it.

You can probably get away with it.

But because it is so transformational and it is moving so very, very quickly, it would be very, very easy to start putting policies in place which are obsolete long before they ever get through

the parliamentary system.

When I was foreign secretary, I chaired the first UN Security Council debate on the safety of AI from a geopolitical kind of weapons management, financial sector management.

And we had a British expert and a Chinese expert, and they were absolutely fascinating.

And the stuff they were saying at the time, I was like, right, I was scribbling this down.

I thought, I'm going to become our in-house expert on AI.

And then something happened.

I can't remember what happened.

Some conflict.

And I looked away and spent some months thinking about something else.

And by the time I looked back, I was completely gone.

And everything that I thought I knew and thought I understood had largely become obsolete.