Alex Forsyth

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1,852 appearances 18 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 6d ago

Alex Forsyth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Newscast · Can AI Actually Be Slowed Down? · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

was I mean, there was loads interesting. voice-verified

But the th the second thing that really stuck out to me was the fact that he is calling for some sort of, you know, global collaboration, like convene some sort of get together of the big international powers to try and work out some way of focusing on voice-verified

the less safe, as he put it, bits of AI. voice-verified

But there was also, I think, a recognition, A, that's going to be really hard. voice-verified

And B, there's a lot that they're never going to agree on. voice-verified

You know, that there might be some things you can get agreement on, but it's highly unlikely you're going to get some sort of global treaty where every nation says, yeah, yeah, you're totally right. voice-verified

We need to totally slow this down and put all these guardrails in place, you know? voice-verified

I think he was acknowledging the genuine challenges and difficulties around that. voice-verified

Yeah, and amid all of that political tension there is the question of pace because while governments around the world wrangle with those sort of questions that you pose, James, what's happening is AI is developing, you know, and if you just think back to how long it took Parliament to agree voice-verified

the online safety act, which wasn't to do with AI, it was to do with regulating the internet and making it safer for children and the like. voice-verified

But you just think by the time that that got through Parliament and the slow process of legislation, the technology was moving quickly. voice-verified

And you think all of those conversations and challenges that you've just outlined about the tensions around AI voice-verified

Are governments this is a genuinely open question and I think, you know, are governments going to be able to move quickly enough to m to match the pace of the technicol technological developments when it comes to all of that really important stuff? voice-verified

Massive question mark with a dot on the bottom. voice-verified

Yeah, I was dreading you asking me this, James. voice-verified

All right, so I set myself the challenge of over the summer I read The Odyssey, which was this massive epic ancient Greek poem written by a guy or or at least attributed to a person called Homer, that was then made into this blockbuster movie, The Odyssey. voice-verified

And I said, Oh, I really should read the poem before I watch the film. voice-verified

So I read it. voice-verified

And then when Adam caught me on the hop on newscasts and said I had to come up with a hundred-day challenge, I thought, aha, I tell you what I'll do is I'll read the Iliad, which is another massive, epic ancient Greek poem attributed to the same guy Homer, who wrote The Odyssey. voice-verified

And it's supposedly all about the Trojan wars, big wars that happened in ancient Greece. voice-verified

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