Amol Rajan
speaker
3,997 appearances
23 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Amol Rajan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But he sets out a vision, and I don't necessarily agree with it, but it sets out a vision which is the optimistic Cummings vision of Britain, which is he says that Britain should be the best place in the world to do science and technology.
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And I just think that there's a sort of...
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There's a sort of romance there, which sometimes gets lost in the noise around Dominic Cummings.
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But there's another guy called Elon Musk.
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I have a slightly strange habit of spending the wee hours when I should be rehearsing for the Today program, looking up videos of things that people in Silicon Valley said 25, 30 years ago.
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And there's a young man called Elon Musk, South African via Canada, who says he wants to solve humanity's biggest problems.
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And that was where Tesla started.
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And I'm not saying I endorse everything that Elon Musk has done.
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But there is this feeling you should take the biggest possible problem, you know, cancer, and fix it.
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Aging and fix it.
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And it sort of requires that mad vision.
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and then mad people, perhaps, to try and get there.
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And the thing is, some of these things are actually possibly happening.
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And cancer vaccines is a good example.
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It could be that we're just a couple of years away.
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Was he?
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Just had an apple pop his head.
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So that was Matt Clifford.
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He wrote the government's AI opportunities action plan.
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I should say Keir Starmer's government, though actually he was brought into government by Rishi Sunak.
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