Coco Kahn

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Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Coco Khan.

Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Coco Khan.

So I've just asked ChatGPT and apparently it can. AI can revitalise the UK by driving economic growth, improving public services and advancing sustainability through innovation, efficiency and strategic investment in technology, digital skills and arsenic. I made that last bit up. Just labour the point that you can't trust them.

So I've just asked ChatGPT and apparently it can. AI can revitalise the UK by driving economic growth, improving public services and advancing sustainability through innovation, efficiency and strategic investment in technology, digital skills and arsenic. I made that last bit up. Just labour the point that you can't trust them.

Someone actually had to say to me recently, you should just be careful about the range of actions that you do because you might start to offend people. So I think I'm safe with this one.

Someone actually had to say to me recently, you should just be careful about the range of actions that you do because you might start to offend people. So I think I'm safe with this one.

And with the far-right surging all over the world, we'll also be chatting to systems theorist and investigative journalist Nafis Ahmed about how to fight it.

And with the far-right surging all over the world, we'll also be chatting to systems theorist and investigative journalist Nafis Ahmed about how to fight it.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer there announcing his AI gambit to the media. So what's the fuss all about? The government is calling it the AI Opportunities Action Plan. And as we heard there, Starmer is hoping artificial intelligence will turbocharge growth, which is a marked evolution from last year's rhetoric, where former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was most focused on AI safety.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer there announcing his AI gambit to the media. So what's the fuss all about? The government is calling it the AI Opportunities Action Plan. And as we heard there, Starmer is hoping artificial intelligence will turbocharge growth, which is a marked evolution from last year's rhetoric, where former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was most focused on AI safety.

I think too many people watch Trainspotting in Cabinet, don't they?

I think too many people watch Trainspotting in Cabinet, don't they?

Oh, very good. Very good.

Oh, very good. Very good.

So does that mean anything's changed on the safety front then from the concerns that we heard last year?

So does that mean anything's changed on the safety front then from the concerns that we heard last year?

Well, I mean, like, you know, perhaps I could imagine if there was some Some system in which, you know, the uses of AI in medicine, for example, okay, that seems justified. In logistics, okay, that seems justified. But if it's like, I was reading a story the other day about how a number of the top cookbooks on Amazon are actually written by AI and the faces and the names are created by AI.