Robert Peston

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The Rest Is Money · 314. Why do the tech bros really want more regulation? · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

You can adapt it for your own purposes. voice-verified

It's much cheaper. voice-verified

And it's essentially the the question is, is AI about to become a commodity because of the what the approach that the uh Chinese are taking? voice-verified

And if it's about to become an open o a commodity, then there is an argument that says that open AI and anthropic are bust. voice-verified

Because their model is no longer um safe, uh in a financial in a financial sense. voice-verified

So one of the so another question about what's going on is how much of this is sort of an attempt to distract from all of that, or how much of it is an attempt to somehow prevent the Chinese from continuing down this route of commodifying the service in a way that would voice-verified

It blow them up financially. voice-verified

Yeah, you're right, they won't be bullied. voice-verified

But it is interesting that there's been both official papers and leaked papers out of China, which shows that she and the ruling Communist Party are actually very anxious, both about the kind of risks that we've already been talking about, but also about voice-verified

A much more, um, shall we say, personal risk for the ruling Chinese Communist Party. voice-verified

Something like six hundred million Chinese are currently using AI to a very great extent. voice-verified

And one of the fears, uh, it seems, of the Chinese Communist Party is that rogue AI in their sense will start sp spreading voice-verified

Um anti-Chinese Communist Party propaganda, which could threaten President Xi and the Communist Party's grip of power. voice-verified

Well, look, we've been uh very much on the sidelines of AI devo development for the last two or three years. voice-verified

We have lots of really amazing companies in the AI space, but not in these you know, not the large language models, you know, not not the businesses like Anthropic which are m you know moving towards superpowerable, super intelligence, general intelligence. voice-verified

So the voice-verified

There obviously is a question about what kind of influence we can have. voice-verified

I mean one of the things that I've been struck by is that this government does think it can play a useful role in respect of trying to make this technology safer. voice-verified

So one of the things I found out, for example, is that when Yvette Cooper was Foreign Secretary, um this was voice-verified

Not reported at the time. voice-verified

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