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🗓️ 16 September 2025
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Falling fertility makes a global decline in population inevitable. That will change the shape and make up of societies. But it may not make us poorer. Are large language models really woke? And reading is on the wane – and why that matters.
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| 0:00.0 | Blockchain. Crypto. It's happening to investments, currency, food trucks. Yes, payments are possible |
| 0:06.2 | with crypto now. But it's not just happening to tortilla chips. Also, microchips. You can trade |
| 0:11.8 | tokenized real world and digital assets. So it's happening to assets, trading, industries, |
| 0:17.4 | economies, and pretty much everything else. And it's happening with Ripple. |
| 0:22.2 | For informational purposes only, not an offer or inducement, for investment professionals |
| 0:25.9 | and high net worth companies, FSMA 2000 financial promotion order. |
| 0:30.1 | The most powerful tool ever created for bringing the world together, the global open internet, |
| 0:35.6 | risks being dismantled amidst the looming threat of AI and political |
| 0:39.5 | conflict. In my new book, How to Save the Internet, written by me, Nick Clegg, I set out a blueprint |
| 0:46.7 | for the global cooperation needed to reform big tech while preserving the fundamental openness |
| 0:52.7 | of the internet on which our future depends. |
| 0:56.2 | How to Save the Internet is out now in hardback, audio and ebook. |
| 1:05.0 | The Economist |
| 1:07.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm Rosie Bloor. |
| 1:17.9 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:19.3 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:27.1 | I've lost track of how many times I've discussed AI on the intelligence, but this one is |
| 1:32.8 | seriously Orwellian. |
| 1:34.3 | Amid concerns that chatbots reflect the biases of their creators, today we'll be asking if |
| 1:39.4 | large language models can actually be woke. |
| 1:44.1 | And plenty of signs suggest the very act of reading is language models can actually be woke. |
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