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The Rest Is Politics: Leading

33. Mustafa Suleyman: Will AI save or destroy humanity?

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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How much do you really know about the dangers of AI? Is it the best hope we have of surviving as a species, or will it lead to the destruction of humanity? On today's episode of Leading Alastair and Rory are joined by Mustafa Suleyman as he recounts his rise from North London council estate to the vanguard of the tech revolution. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by London Business School, and it's a business school I'm

0:08.7

very happy to endorse because Shoshana my wife did an MBA at London Business School. She

0:13.1

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MBA that's London.edu forward slash MBA. Welcome to the rest of this politics leading with

1:03.0

me, Rory Stewart. And me and Mr Campbell. And our guest today is Mustafa Suleman. And Mustafa Suleman

1:10.0

is famous for being one of the people right at the heart of the AI, the artificial intelligence

1:15.7

revolution. He is co-founder of DeepMind, which was the big revolutionary company that did some

1:21.4

of the very early work. He's now co-founded another major AI company. He's probably one of half a

1:26.6

dozen or a dozen people in the world who are at the center of all these changes. But he's also

1:31.8

actually, I think very interesting for listeners. In other ways, he's comes from a working class

1:36.8

background in London, Muslim background, father Syrian. And during the course of this interview,

1:42.4

we will of course talk about AI and some of his anxieties about the threat that AI poses.

1:48.0

But we will also talk about a young man who left university after a year to set up a Muslim

1:53.9

youth helpline who worked for Ken Livingston, the Mayor of London, obviously had very left-wing

1:58.3

politics in his youth. And the way in which he reconciles his position now as this very, very

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