Robert Peston

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5,884 appearances 45 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2d ago

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The Rest Is Money · 308. The 4 challenges (and the biggest opportunity) facing the new PM · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

uh i in a slightly euphemistic way, they're wary of Palantir, right? matched

Now Palantir you know, somebody who's visited them matched

I sort of understand why they may not be altogether sympathetic with, you know, the founders and their politics but their product is a very powerful and impressive product for sharing data in a very intelligent way. matched

And at the moment, although one would like to see competition in that market, one would like to see British Palantirs, they don't really exist. matched

So th this this this idea that, for example, the Mayor of London has that you've just gotta kick 'em out, I mean matched

What do you think about that? matched

In a minute I want to get on to another aspect of all of this, which is how we've got to think about welfare and tax in an AI age. matched

But there's just one other aspect of what we've just been talking about, which is, you know, obviously as part of the modernisation, we are already seeing the rollout of AI, you know, in in di in many different manifestations throughout the public sector. matched

But again, one of the things I thought your your report identified. matched

is that the traditional um definitions of so called revenue spending and capital spending are not again altogether fit for an AI age in the sense that traditionally matched

You know, you would say, okay, we're gonna, you know, install a bunch of, you know, 20 years ago we're gonna install a bunch of new computers, and that's obviously capital. matched

Um, and there's a capital budget for that, uh, and that's all ring fenced. matched

Uh and and then day-to-day spending is something different. matched

But actually, you know, in an AI age, um a lot of what you need to do to make the uh civil service more efficient matched

W if you're essentially subscribing to an AI service, that is not capital. matched

Right? matched

You know, that is day-to-day spending where there are really tough cons constraints. matched

So d uh do ministers and permanent secretaries feel that they have the flexibility w to invest in digital and AI um in the way they would like to, given the traditional thinking about how funding is allocated? matched

You talk about health prevention, are you? matched

Well matched

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