Simon Johnson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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And the second thing is, what happens to your revenue?
Now, so you just made the point about Demis Hassabis and DeepMind, and there being a loss of potential revenue there for the UK, as well as investment opportunities.
Now, if that happens on a bigger scale, what happens to the revenue for the government and our ability to support social welfare?
You know, my...
Only suggestion to break this Gordian knot is to run faster and invent more and generate more new tasks, drive that with science, spread it around the country.
I mean, when I have a lot of global experience and I work on these global issues, I was the former chief economist of the IMF, among other things.
And I think the UK has got some tremendous assets or cards to play in this global poker game, but you've got to play the cards and you've got to take some risks and you've got to...
assert and place your bets and try a lot of things.
And I think to the government's credit, that's what they are doing.
And that's what they were announcing in London Tech Week.
And that's real stuff.
Now, are we doing the right things?
Should we do more of one, less of another?
I mean, that's part of the job of the AI Economics Institute, I think, is to look at the evidence and to try and get feedback.
And some of the feedback will be quantitative and some of it will be
you complaining on this show or in your books.
And we'll try to take it, I promise, we will try to take it all on board and process it.
Well, maybe I'll come up to the northeast and you can show me around, Steph.
But that could be very interesting.
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