Tony Blair

And then you look at the Korean Peninsula, which is the biggest experiment in human governance there's ever been, North Korea and South Korea.

South Korea had the same GDP per head as Sierra Leone in the 1960s.

And now it's one of the top countries in the world.

Well, the institutions matter and good leaders should be able to build good institutions.

But, you know, we were talking about Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore.

Would Singapore be Singapore without those decisions that he took?

No.

And if you look at the, take for example, China and Deng Xiaoping.

I mean, when he decided to switch after the death of Mao and switch policy completely to open China up, that China opening up

I mean, that made the difference.

If you track back India's development over the past 25 years, you can see the points at which decisions were taken that gave India the chance it has today.

So I actually think the interesting thing about this is...

how much it really does matter who the leader is and the governance of the country.

And I think the interesting thing today, which is what I'd say to people engaged in this groundbreaking revolution of artificial intelligence, is we need your help in changing government and changing countries.

Because we could do things, what I say when I'm talking to people in the developing world today and leaders that we're working with,

I say to them, don't try and replicate the systems of the West.

You don't need to do that.

You can teach your children better and differently without building the same type of system we have in the West.

I wouldn't design the healthcare system in the UK today as it is now if we had the benefit of generative AI.

So this is...