Tony Blair on how Britain will be 'left behind' unless it embraces AI revolution | Today Programme

Speaking ahead of the The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change's Future of Britain conference former PM, Tony Blair, joined Nick Robinson to discuss how the only 'long-term solution' for economic growth is 'the full embrace of this technology revolution.'
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Tony Blair on how Britain will be 'left behind' unless it embraces AI revolution | Today Programme

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[adambartlett]

Is it just me or does it sound like Tony Blair is running the country ??

[Matick-]

How is this criminal not banned from discource about society. He should be in a cold dark cell.

[jamescoburn]

Why does anybody give Lionel Blair airtime? More red wine on his plate than Fred West and Harold Shipman.

[guyjones]

.. google his son... heavily invoved in AI...See you next tuesday

[joelharvey]

As someone living through the effects of his previous revolution, I think I’ll give him a wide berth

[tengchuankhoo]

If Blair still has an audience in UK, UK is doomed

[RollaArtis]

I heard Blairs interview, heard his solutions. But while he was droning on I had the impression that they all sounded too easy, just salesman's BS. I think that's how he got into power.

[TheGinglymus]

We have the imagination. We do the start ups but we sell them off to foreign companies. The government needs to change the law to prevent foreign ownership like other countries do.

[elias.knotman]

He reminds me very much of one of the villains in C.S. Lewis's much underrated sci-fi novel That Hideous Strength. Something about that paradoxical bloodless zeal about him. Frightening stuff.

[strangetrip]

Probably has shares in the AI industry 🙄

[ericaceous]

Blair ought to stop yelling from the sidelines, its distracting and unhelpful. He could give advice to the current government when they ask for it, but otherwise he should probably find a hobby and stop acting as though he's still in power.
Same could very much be said of Cameron - in fact, to a much greater extent, given his economic vandalism.

[dulcettonezzz]

He obviously knows more about AI than the tech experts. Half the people working on creating AI are saying we need to slow down and take pause

[frydaybeats]

I feel sorry for Tony for when judgment day comes from God. He's in deep trouble.

[moomin]

AI will just put more people out of work.

[HSstudio.Ytchnnl]

Blair having faith in AI? yeah since it's more dangerous than nukes.

[nigelspiers]

Is Tony Blair the biggest waste of space the world has ever seen?

[elcapitan]

Where's he planning to invade with these AI robots then.

[tonydecastro]

the problem with revolutions, and more so with revolutions on top of revolutions, is that victims fall by the way side. the crucial question: what does this mean for employment? will more and more people be out of work because AI has taken over? how many human jobs will be lost? where will people who lost their jobs go? what is in the "revolution on top of the revolution" for them? or will this mean the hardening of the divide between those who control AI and those who do not? Blair is not totally being transparent here...

[nickjourno]

How much do big tech companies give to the Tony Blair Institute?

[aidankiely]

Imagine conducting an interview where it’s claimed that 40% of the tasks done by people could be done without people, and not asking how society manages that impact to jobs and the great mini in the workforce who aren’t going to become engineering wizards. Ah wait, I just watched one! Typical London bubble – okay I know the BBC studios aren’t in London these days but the thinking still is.