Daniel McConnell
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23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2025
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Hello and welcome to this live edition of the Business Post podcast with me, Danny McConnell.
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And me, Peter O'Dower.
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We're not in studio, we're actually in the Conrad Hotel in Dublin for a very, very special event.
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We have the former UK Chancellor, George Osborne, who's now managing director and head of countries for OpenAI, who are have just announced a pretty wide and big expansion in Dublin.
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Peter, so uh kind of a this is this is we're out of our comfort zone here where this is uh uh something new to me.
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But George Osborne, I mean obviously very stellar career as a politician in the UK, kinda partner in chief with with David Cameron, uh then became a newspaper editor uh with the Evening Standard in in London.
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um but now has sort of ventured out into the world of big tech.
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It seems that he's gravitating towards power no matter where he goes.
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And it's interesting as well that, you know, moving from this event, the first place he's going to is government buildings.
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It goes to show the quality of and the power that open AI and companies of that nature have.
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And it's this controversy around open AI and I kind of was in my head thinking, you know, have they appointed up George Osborne as you know, to this role to be the sort of friendly face, the Nick Clegg as he was with Meta, this sort of friendly face who can go in and open doors and lobby on their behalf that
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You know, because there's all this uncertainty around the scope, the power, the reach of AI, and we've already seen open AI have disclosed themselves.
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You know, they're in their own testing.
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AI bots have gone rogue a little bit, you know, have gone beyond their sandboxes as they've described it.
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So
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You know, it's unusual for big companies to be seeking regulation.
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You wonder what's what's what's their interest at heart here or what's what's really driving it.
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Okay, we won't delay any longer.
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We'll get into our interview with George Osborne.
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It's about thirty minutes.
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