AI

Jilly Cooper's Rivals, Cosine's sovereign AI, and Shabana Mahmood's spaceport gambit

Sovereign AI and the model you must own or become a vassal, why conservatism is the wrong word for a country whose status quo is already radical, and…

Jun 30 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:08:56

James Wise: This is how Britain wins the AI race

James Wise on what Sovereign AI is actually for, why a single GPT token needs 35 countries, and why Britain has a unique advantage in the race to AI…

Jun 26 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:24:13

059. Dominic Cummings: Whitehall's war against the future

Dominic Cummings on Brexit, the Cabinet Office, personal responsibility, and why science and technology have to become the Prime Minister's job

Jun 20 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:38:43

057. Mat Dryhurst: Speculative aesthetics in the algorithmic age

Mat Dryhurst on Strange Rules, infinite feeds, Spawning AI, and why the next aesthetic movement will be institutional before it is visual.

Jun 6 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:31:06

024. Alex Burghart: Inside i.ai

Alex Burghart MP reveals what happened when he and Dr Laura Gilbert tried to revolutionise Whitehall with artificial intelligence–and why it's harder…

Jul 31, 2025 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

31:41

023. Alex Burghart and Laura Gilbert: Britain's Anglo-Saxon AI revolution

Alex Burghart MP and Dr Laura Gilbert on what Alfred the Great can teach us about artificial intelligence, state capacity, and building a future that…

Jul 29, 2025 • Calum Drysdale and Tom Ough

1:14:27

018. Santi Ruiz: America's techno-industrial master plan

Santi Ruiz from the Institute for Progress joins Tom and Calum to discuss how America can outbuild China and secure the 21st century

May 28, 2025 • Calum Drysdale, Tom Ough, and Santi Ruiz

1:20:43

015. Marc Warner: AI, state capacity, and Britain's technological future

Marc Warner joins Calum and Tom to discuss how AI is transforming decision-making and the challenges facing the UK's tech ambitions.

Apr 30, 2025 • Calum Drysdale and Tom Ough

1:46:12

008. Samo Burja: Make Britain the compute capital of the world

How nuclear energy, antarctic oil, and AI dominance could make the UK richer than America

Nov 28, 2024 • Calum Drysdale and Tom Ough

1:28:05

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