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 · The Elon game: Musk’s vision of the future · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

There is a real sense now amongst the leaders of this industry that these are

Terrifying capabilities.

And I think Musk feels that.

And he said that he felt exhilaration and terror.

about AI within the same day.

He's quite rueful now about that time in government, which wasn't terribly successful.

But he was incredibly defensive about any criticism of Doge.

So you don't buy the idea that anybody to put it really crudely and simply, any kid in Africa died because of the suddenness with which Zero.

There you hear it.

Zero death.

I disagree with him on that.

Even if you

think that USAID needed reform and I do think that there was need for a sort of shift in the whole approach to aid, but overnight shutting down of an institution that provides life saving

health care in large parts of Africa.

To my mind, there's surely no doubt that that caused unnecessary suffering.

And and so this sort of zero deaths is sort of glib.

and clearly inaccurate and kind of ugly actually.

Well, this is perhaps the most striking contradiction.

This expansive worldview and then this

Dark, angry,

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