Rory Stewart

Japan, South Korea, Germany, all play essential parts in the semiconductor industry.

supply chain as well.

I mean, what the UK has is home to talent.

So London is the second most important hub for AI talent outside of San Francisco.

By headcount, it's about a third the size of the, but that's a lot of kind of number of machine learning researchers because Google DeepMind is based in London.

There's also offices from Anthropic and OpenAI.

But in terms of manufacturing, in terms of

Yeah, this role in kind of hard power, the US lags enormously behind.

It could change that if it wanted to, but more recent news, it was going to develop more data centers in the north of England.

That's fallen through as a result of permitting inability to grow energy enough and some copyright reasons too.

No, I'm happy to speak very frankly about all these people.

I will say two things.

The first I'll say is that

Relative to the batting average for companies dealing with ethical issues, where the bar is in hell, think of Exxon, think of Philip Morris, I am very happy that the three leading companies are led by Demis Hassabis, although he's part of Google, so it's how much influence he ultimately has over the steering is more muted.

Dari Amadei and Sam Altman.

These are all above the average.

They've all done things like invest in safety.

Oh, no, but they are also megalomaniacal.

Both of these things can be true.

So in terms of the things you should be worried about, yeah, I mean, entrepreneurs and very successful entrepreneurs are already extremely weird by populations because of the...