Is AI Coming for Your Job? (Your Radical Questions with Matt Clifford)
Radical with Amol Rajan
BBC
4.5 • 919 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Amol puts your questions, queries, and concerns about AI to Matt Clifford, co-founder of Entrepreneurs First and former AI adviser to Number 10. Matt is a strong advocate for Britain’s rapid uptake of AI to boost the economy, but what are the risks? We asked him about capitalism, tech stifling creativity, universal basic income, how the UK government deals with the speed of AI development, and what the impact on inequality might be.
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Amol Rajan presents the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. He also hosts University Challenge on BBC One. Before that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor of The Independent newspaper.
Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Rufus Gray and Oscar Pearson. Technical production was by Ricardo McCarthy. The Senior News Editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:26.2 | Hello and welcome to your radical questions. |
| 0:28.5 | This is where I put your questions to one of our radical guests. |
| 0:32.5 | This is your chance to engage very, very directly with the very smart, very interesting |
| 0:36.7 | and very influential |
| 0:38.3 | people that we have on this podcast and ask them about their ideas for the future. And if you |
| 0:42.8 | heard Thursday's show, we had the magnificent Matt Clifford on. He is the co-founder of entrepreneurs |
| 0:48.3 | first. He just stepped back from that after 15 years, former AI advisor to Prime Minister Sunak |
| 0:53.3 | and Starmat. And who knows what he's going to do next, but he's got some very radical ideas to make this country rich again by embracing innovation, science, technology and AI and perhaps refashioning our state a little bit to make that happen. We talked about all of that at our last episode. Please do go back and listen to that. Matt Clifford is here and we have been bombarded with questions. |
| 1:12.5 | You haven't just got your mates in the AI community to send us these questions, haven't. They're far too hard, though, definitely would have got them to send easier ones. They're hard, and there are a lot. You think, guys, is anyone going to send in questions for an AI super wonk? And here we go. Lots of them have come in. Let's crack on with it. |
| 1:24.3 | This is the first one. |
| 1:25.6 | It's a voice note from Flora. |
| 1:28.1 | Hi, Amel. |
| 1:29.0 | My name is Flora Nutchins. |
| 1:30.5 | I've got a question note from Flora. |
| 1:28.1 | Hi, Amel. My name is Flora Nutchins and I've got a question for Matt Clifford. |
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