Zanny Minton Beddoes

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654 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · An interview with Elon Musk · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

But I get the idea people still like playing chess with each other even though they do every computer's better.

But let's just let's just think about the politics of this.

Because it sounds to you're describing a world where within ten years pretty much every job can be done better by an intelligence.

And you're seeing huge returns to this intelligence, to people like you, you're the wealthiest man in the world.

People who lose their jobs, who are displaced, who may go off and garden, but how are they gonna live?

And what kind of I mean, it sounds to me

But how are you going to get there?

Let's talk about the politics of this, because right now

We uh if we look at the political pressures in most countries, people are very, very worried about this, very against it.

I mean it seems to me that there's a risk that we're heading more for revolution than for an easy route to this nirvana you're playing out.

I'm just reading accession.

So I've I've thanks to you I've started reading these.

But I I actually don't find that future a terribly appealing one 'cause I don't think humans have agency in that future.

compared to mine.

But the irony, I mean, Ian Banks, as you know, was a socialist.

Um Ian Banks had a very different political philosophy.

Let's agree that that could be where we end up.

I'm con I'm concerned about the road and we live you know, we live in democracies and people are very worried about this.

So I guess two questions.

Firstly, do you have to have massive redistribution from people like you

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