Steph McGovern

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4,785 appearances 56 recordings 6 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2d ago

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The Rest Is Money · 300. Does Burnham get AI? · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

How important is it for us to have AI sovereignty?

And what does that mean in reality?

That's what we're talking about today.

Do entrepreneurs feel less welcome in the UK now than they did a few years ago?

Plus, does the government really understand that in order to create and support the next great British businesses, you need to lose some money along the way?

But Matt Clifford is a British tech investor who co-founded the startup program Entrepreneurs First.

He is also a man with a lot of influence when it comes to UK AI policy, having advised former Prime Minister Keir Starmer and one of the people to set up the first government body dedicated to AI safety.

So he's a man who knows a lot about what's going on in the AI world.

This episode is brought to you by Octopus Energy.

Greg Jackson, the CEO, is with us now.

So Greg, I've got a question for you.

Is it true that by 2040 in China, there will be no petrol stations because everyone will be driving electric cars?

Greg, thank you very much.

Now on with today's episode.

Can I ask them, because when this announcement came out about the new AI task force, and as you rightly said, you know, they've got the AI minister, Kanishka, who we've had on the show and chaired by Patrick Valens, who we've also had on the show as well.

And within that announcement was this statement that for the first time, AI will be positioned at the very centre of government.

So what is it that they're going to do now that they weren't doing before?

Because surely, like in the strategy you wrote for the previous prime minister and everything else, AI should have been at the centre of that.

So what's going to change?

Because on the point about procurement, I mean, we've had various people talk to us about how difficult it is.

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