184: From Westminster to Silicon Valley: A Connected World at Risk - Sir Nick Clegg on threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI & Political Conflict.
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4.8 • 216 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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But it is also uncommon, if not without precedent, for someone who has led their political party, been deputy Prime Minister for 5 years, to then re-invent themselves, chameleon-like, move to silicon valley and join the senior ranks of one of the world’s most successful technology companies, Meta.
Before he discusses his new book “How to Save the Internet - The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict,” Nick explores power and politics, ambition and insights.
He speaks about content moderation and removing Trump from Facebook, the balkanisation of the Internet, and why AI might not be the existential arrival feared by some.
He laments Europe’s failings, US tech dominance, why China is an immense technology force, and what is needed to achieve cohesion amongst the democratic powers in developing a tech roadmap.
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| 0:00.0 | Europe has got 27 different national data protection authorities. Germany alone has 17 different |
| 0:06.3 | data protection authorities, all interpreting the same law, GDPR, which itself was put on the statute |
| 0:11.5 | book before AI was even a thing. Sure, you can try if you want and deal with the world the way |
| 0:17.3 | you'd like it, or you deal with the way the world it is. And that's always been my guiding |
| 0:22.0 | philosophy. But I think we have this odd tendency to call it artificial intelligence and then spend |
| 0:28.0 | all our time anthropomorphising it and sort of imbueing it with human or indeed superhuman |
| 0:32.8 | capabilities. Well, that's clearly expressed. Back to the geopolitics, can Europe get a piece of the action? |
| 0:38.4 | Well, not on its current trajectory, not at all. European countries are just too small individually. |
| 0:43.2 | You've got this extraordinary situation where we're dependent on incoming American technology, |
| 0:49.4 | because we don't see to be able to build our own, of our own scale. And we export all the good people and good ideas |
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| 1:28.6 | It's not every guest who would admit in their new book, with brutal honesty, I've been |
| 1:33.2 | vilified, satirized, protested against the hate figure on both left and right. But it's also |
| 1:39.4 | uncommon, if not without precedent for someone who has led their political party. |
| 1:47.6 | Being deputy prime minister for five years, to reinvent themselves, |
| 1:51.3 | chameleon-like, moved to Silicon Valley and join the senior ranks in one of the world's most successful technology companies, Facebook meta, |
| 1:55.5 | a company that reaches almost 4 billion people each month through Facebook, Instagram, |
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