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

Look, obviously what you've raised is one of the big uncertainties at the moment, which is whether the winners matched

In this AI revolution, are going to be the brand new firms that are using the technology to approach an established market in a completely different way, or whether the established players will be able to adapt. matched

I mean, I suspect it'll be a bit of both, but if you look at some of the really most exciting young companies in this country, they are attacking, you know, whether it's banking or the sale of motor. matched

motor cars, you know, they are being created from scratch using AI and new digital technologies in a way that established companies are gonna struggle to compete with. matched

So th the dislocation here could be really very significant. matched

backers of these firms. matched

And some of the entrepreneurs. matched

And I've said is you're out that, you know, you'll essentially hold, you know, some giant bank to ransom and they'll obviously just buy you out for some enormous amount of money. matched

And they th what they actually say is, no, we don't want that. matched

We're in it for the long term. matched

So we'll see what we'll see actually what what what happens there. matched

I suppose the sort of final big question I want to ask you about is this. matched

One of the things that matched

I think n no Western government learned until it was too late matched

was the extent to which the original digital revolution, internet revolution you know, beginning from the late nineties, created these winner takes all markets and businesses. matched

And and it just led to these absolutely colossal fortunes being accumulated by, you know, the Musks and the rest. matched

um, you know, the Google founders and and and the rest, and an extraordinary widening of of inequality. matched

Now arguably AI is going to be even more extreme in that sense. matched

You know, workers who lose their jobs. matched

you know, with no revenue to pay tax on, so tax revenues disappear from there. matched

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