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

You're you know, let's have a bit more detail. voice-verified

I mean, the other thing about AI, I don't know if you've noticed this, but we're sort of living in that in a sort of end of days conversation. voice-verified

kind of period. voice-verified

The number of people who, you know, come up to me unprompted and just say, you know, the world is coming to an end. voice-verified

It's a you know it must be about AI or it'll be about you know, there is this sort of apocalypse mood around the place. voice-verified

And there is also this mood, and you do see this in in in British history a lot, you know, moods about, you know, there's a lot of conspiracy theories around. voice-verified

So so the late voice-verified

Conspiracy theory. voice-verified

Do you remember you know, I think it was a couple of years ago, we talked quite a lot about the effective altruist movement, that group of techies that were absolutely obsessed with the end of the world. voice-verified

Obsessed. voice-verified

Do you remember do you remember this? voice-verified

Anyway, one of the recent events that prompted all this end of day stuff connected to AI was the uh resignation from Am Anthropic of this guy. voice-verified

Jacob Coxon, who was, you know, who said he was resigning because Anthropic wasn't safe. voice-verified

So of course, now there are all these attempts online, and there may be some evidence to this effect that he is linked to the effective altruist movement. voice-verified

And it is, you know, it we are living in this world of incredible conspiracy theories, tribes. voice-verified

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And you know, it's it's it's it's almost medieval. voice-verified

All right, all right. voice-verified

We've obviously been voice-verified

Staying up too late and w worrying about the wrong things. voice-verified

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