Gillian Tett
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242 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Gillian Tett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is it going to be government doing the training or companies or will it be universities or philanthropy or individuals?
And who is actually going to provide the financial literacy we're all going to need in the future?
That's where you see the new area that people really need to upskill on.
Absolutely.
It's going to be a combination of things.
And ordinary people don't need to understand the inner workings of AI or the inner workings of financial markets.
I mean, that would be unrealistic any more than when you go to your chemist or drugstore and buy a tablet, aspirin, you don't want actually inside out how it works on you.
You just trust that it's going to be good.
In the same way, we have to build a trust AI.
We
And it's a bit like saying to somebody, OK, we don't expect you to know what's in penicillin or in an aspirin, but you should know that if you just eat McDonald's every day, you're going to get sick.
In the same way, we should know just enough about AI and money to make sure we don't become completely stupid and are able to make informed choices.
Hello and welcome to the story of money, the brand new podcast from the Financial Times where we rummage through the past to make sense of the financial present and sometimes the future too.
I'm Gillian Tett, an anthropologist turned FT columnist.
And that means that I love to look at all the hidden rituals and occasional historical absurdities of the financial world and show you why they matter so much today.
So together, we're going to tell you the story of money, how it's shaped empires, toppled economies, and occasionally made some completely nutty ideas seem very brilliant, at least for a while.
So whether you're a finance fanatic, a history buff, an investor, a student, a wannabe banker, or anybody else, this is going to be the podcast for you to help you understand what's really going on.
Wow, that's a really big question, Robin.
And it's a very relevant one for anyone listening because whether you're managing your own pension investments or a smartphone app or you're a recruiter for a top-tier Wall Street firm, the reality is that we tend to be obsessed with brain power.
Finance firms tend to go out and recruit the smartest physicists, mathematicians and quite literal rocket scientists from the universities, including the Cambridge one.
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