Grok, deepfakes and who should police AI
The Times Tech Podcast
Will Morley
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
What happens when AI gets it wrong? After a backlash over the misuse of Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok, new restrictions have been imposed on editing images of real people. Is this a sign that AI regulation is lagging, and who should be in charge – governments or Silicon Valley? This week, Danny and Katie are joined by AI computer scientist Kate Devlin from King’s College London to discuss why this moment could be a turning point for global AI rules.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Times Tech podcast where every week we unpack how technology is reshaping business, culture and everyday life. |
| 0:13.0 | I am Danny Fortson out here in Silicon Valley back from my winter break. |
| 0:18.9 | Welcome back. Good to talk to. I am Katie Prescott in the city, |
| 0:23.7 | in the city of Cambridge today, actually. Cambridge. Yeah. Our own little cauldron of Silicon Valley |
| 0:29.5 | churning out tech companies right and center. I can't wait to hear how your break was because it's |
| 0:36.3 | been ages since we spoke. |
| 0:37.7 | It feels like it's been a million years since we did. |
| 0:40.1 | Yeah, we took a big, big, big family holiday to South Africa for like two weeks. |
| 0:44.7 | It's the first two week vacation, two week holiday. |
| 0:47.7 | We've taken since our honeymoon. |
| 0:50.1 | Oh, that's special. |
| 0:52.0 | It was very, very, very cool. |
| 0:53.4 | We did safari and saw all the big animals uncomfortably close to our safari jeep. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, it sounds like a holiday of a lifetime territory. |
| 1:02.0 | It really was. What about you? Did you do anything fun? |
| 1:05.0 | I did nothing, actually. |
| 1:07.0 | It was just very, very nice to have two weeks off doing nothing with the family and just hunkering down at home while everyone else was off as well. |
| 1:14.9 | It doesn't often happen with this gig. |
| 1:16.9 | Usually when you're off, everybody else is still working or vice versa. |
| 1:20.6 | We have like an asynchronous kind of type of job. |
| 1:23.6 | Exactly. |
| 1:24.3 | The news doesn't stop. |
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