Tony Blair

Yeah, so I think you've got to distinguish between two separate things.

One is making...

making the system have the skills and the sensitivity to know the different contours of the crisis that you've got and to be able to produce potential solutions for what you do.

So we needed to rely upon the scientific community to say, this is how we think the disease is going to run.

We relied on the private sector to say, this is how we could develop vaccines.

We had to rely on different agencies in order to say, well, I think you could concertina the trial period to get the drugs.

But in the end, the decision whether you lock down or you don't lock down, you can't really leave it to those people because that's not their decision.

Yeah, totally.

You see what I mean?

In the end, as with AI, if you look at it at the moment, some people want to regulate AI now and regulate it on the basis that it's going to cause enormous dangers and problems.

Because it's general purpose technology, yeah, there are real risks and problems associated with it.

Europe is already moving in quite a, frankly, an adverse regulatory way.

On the other hand, there will be people who say, well, if you do that, you're going to stifle innovation, and we're going to lose the opportunities that come with this new technology.

But balancing those two things, I mean, that's what politics is about.

Now, you need the experts, the people who know what they're talking about, to tell you

This is how AI is going to be.

This is what it can do.

This is what it can't do.

Okay, we are explaining the technicality to you, but ultimately what your policy is, you've got to decide that.

And by the way, whichever way you decide it, someone's going to attack you for it.