Matt Clifford
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475 appearances
20 recordings
6 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 21 Aug
Matt Clifford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is there a level of income, welfare or material comfort at which society should deliberately stop prioritising growth?
And if so, how would we tell?
We have to figure out that coordination both within the industry and maybe more importantly and more challengingly with China.
Gosh, I didn't think it was you that would be doing the purity test, Rory.
Did you expect it?
Because you became a journalist straight out of that.
You mentioned creative writing as a hobby, and for those of us who read your newsletter, we kind of get to experience this every week.
But was that always going to be the side hustle and the...
It's interesting.
I was saying this just before, but I think it is worth saying that arguably the two most successful Brits in the history of Silicon Valley are Jack Clark, co-founder of the fastest growing company of all time, and Mike Moritz, the Sequoia Capital partner and funder of Google, among many others.
Oh, damn it.
He's not in Silicon Valley, though.
He lives on the road.
He's not abandoned us yet, unlike you, Jack.
And both you and Mike Morris trained as journalists.
Is that a coincidence?
Did it feel weird to make the jump when you jumped into working open AI?
Or did it feel quite natural by that point?
I was already bought by Google by then, right?
And it's worth maybe just spending a minute on something you already alluded to, which is that, you know, Dario, when he went to work at OpenAI, had already done this work on concrete problems in AI safety.
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