Louis Theroux

I don't know where to start.

I find the world of AI bafflingly intriguing.

So I think someone like Peter Thiel, who runs Palantir.

Yeah, there's a religious dimension there, but also this sort of sense in which he seems to envision a world in which we transcend the human form.

And by we, I think I just mean a handful of billionaire tech bros will upload their consciousnesses to sort of data farms and be roaming around the digital ether like gods.

But if I can't get him, I've been trying to get Demis Hassabis, who's the most brilliant, gifted AI expert, developer, programmer in the UK.

And he's up in North London.

And he seems a rather benign figure.

So I'd love to talk to him.

And then on a more prosaic note, the comedian Peter Kaye.

There we go.

That seems more achievable.

I think it's hard to see the likelihood of a shift in the balance.

It seems only to be going in one direction.

And more than that, and I've said this before, I think others around the world are looking at how other authoritarian and ethno-nationalist regimes are looking at what's happening in the West Bank.

admiringly, you know, figures like Millet in Argentina, maybe Bardella in France.

There's sort of underground, international underground, I mean not underground, but there's this sort of community kind of in the vanguard of Trump as well, who sort of, and I think, you know, to the broader point, I think they see Islam generally as a threat.

I think that's where

That's how they would try and explain what they were doing.

They would say like, well, we're just trying to protect ourselves.