Robert Peston

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5,610 appearances 43 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard yesterday

Robert Peston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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

I don't know why. voice-verified

Um, she would just routinely in meetings in China, in India, in other places, basically, uh, in a fairly informal way, say to her counterparts, in fact, I understand she said this to Modi in India and also to her opposite number in China, look, we are very worried about the risks from AI. voice-verified

And she said what was striking was that everybody she was talking to. voice-verified

Immediately wanted to discuss the detail and and shared those anxieties. voice-verified

Um and now talking to, you know, other ministers in in the government, I think they are gonna try and play a, in a sense, broking role between America and China and try and bring the two together. voice-verified

I mean, I said they don't agree with me, but I actually think they're wrong about voice-verified

This that actually if the UK put together a coalition of middle powers voice-verified

Ask the you. voice-verified

Canada, uh, Japan, actually we could play a very important role. voice-verified

I mean, the in the initial reaction of the government is no, no, we it's it's really all about getting China involved. voice-verified

Actually, all of us, collectively, huge economic strength, OpenAI and Athropi Anthropic want to sell their services to us, the EU, Japan. voice-verified

Canada and so on. voice-verified

I think if we just said without regulation we're going to keep you out, that in itself would lead to regulation. voice-verified

Because they're not, you know, they're not gonna, you know, they are not gonna want to face hostility um from major customers. voice-verified

So I do think I think I actually think we've got more power, perhaps, than ministers think. voice-verified

I was slightly disappointed. voice-verified

I mean, Kanishkan Narayan, the voice-verified

Yeah, I minister, who actually has been on this podcast and I I thought was really on top of the issues when he came on the podcast. voice-verified

I mean he has written, I thought, a totally vacuous piece in the Times overnight which basically said, We think there's a problem here and we're not gonna ignore it. voice-verified

Well, you know, come on. voice-verified

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