Alastair Campbell

In many ways, that was personal discipline.

rather than professional, but those things blurred and the wheels came, all of which you can read in my wife's book that she's writing about her.

So Susie's, and the reason I'm reliving this, so it's because Susie's writing a book at the moment about her time being treated for recovering from cancer.

And it basically, it basically starts with,

So it goes from 2022 to the end of 2025.

And so we're reliving this as she's writing about what she was going through.

She was saying, what were you doing at the time?

I'm flicking back through my diary going, oh my God, I was doing this.

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.