Robert Peston

When it comes to essentially how people are going to feel and think that they can't think further than the next day, it is odd.

But it's, by the way, well, it is odd.

You're right.

I've always been so intrigued by these entrepreneurial characters for whom the money also, their wealth is the score.

I mean, some of the reasons they become so monstrously wealthy is because obviously they accumulate wealth well beyond what any of them could actually use, right?

The power that comes with that kind of wealth is distorting democracy.

There's no question about it.

With that, and one of the things that I spent a lot of time actually agonizing about is, you know, how we create the ecosystem so that we can again have world leading companies.

Now, you know, you and I.

Similar ish kind of generation.

You will remember that in the late 90s, early 2000s, the UK had a significant number of the world's biggest companies.

And now we more or less have zero.

Right.

I mean, AstraZeneca is periodically in the top 50, depending on what's happening to its share price.

BP, if oil price is high for a period, looks as though it's a big company.

But we've lost world leadership when it comes to so many industries.

I think you and I agree about this.

The most important industrial, economic, social revolution of our lives.

I passionately believe that artificial intelligence is changing everything.

I mean, one of the things you've been thinking about, talking about, in fact,