Lara Lewington
The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
The Midpoint
4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In her episode of The Midpoint, Lara Lewington cuts through the hype and fear around artificial intelligence, translating complex ideas into a language we can all understand.
With her trademark warmth and curiosity, she explains what AI really is (and isn’t), why it’s developing so fast, and which parts actually matter to our daily lives. Rather than focusing on worst-case scenarios, Lara highlights the very real positives—from improving healthcare and saving time at work to making technology more accessible and inclusive. The result is a reassuring, empowering conversation that leaves listeners better informed, less intimidated, and optimistic about how AI can work for us, not against us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the midpoint. Now buckle up because we're going into AI. But fear not, |
| 0:09.6 | my guest today has got a wonderful skill of disseminating, challenging technological information |
| 0:13.9 | and making it relevant and understandable to those of us without the MA's, PhDs or time to read the big reports and academic papers. |
| 0:22.0 | She's been doing this on Click, the BBC's most important technology show, for years, |
| 0:26.4 | as well as contributing to Women's Hour, ITVs tonight, and she's even fronted a panorama documentary. |
| 0:32.5 | Lara Lewington's latest book, Hacking Humanity, is an important dive into the health and well-being benefits |
| 0:38.3 | of AI, against a backdrop of doomsday AI scenarios and stories which seem to mainly relate to |
| 0:44.4 | cyber security war and data theft. Well, there is good news when it comes to AI on how it's |
| 0:50.2 | going to help us live longer, healthier lives. So let's get on with it. |
| 0:57.4 | Laura, healthier lives. So let's get on with it. Lara, welcome back to the Midpoint. |
| 0:59.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:59.6 | I don't get to say that that often to guess. |
| 1:01.3 | I think Claudia Wincommon is the only other repeat kind of vendor. |
| 1:04.9 | Amazing. I'm following in great footsteps. |
| 1:06.3 | Well, you are. |
| 1:07.0 | You're here with some good news because I feel like you were an early kind of adopter of |
| 1:12.8 | AI's and all bad folks, right? And you came on a good point to talk about that. I've been talking |
| 1:16.7 | about AI for years, decades in fact, since way before it was fashionable. And I am determined that we |
| 1:23.6 | also talk about the reason we built this thing, because the conversation over the last couple of years, |
| 1:27.1 | since everyone's got interested, has been very centred around fear. And rightly so, because there are some quite dystopian kind of potential uses. There is plenty we can worry about, but there are also real positives. There's a reason we built this thing. And that's why your book is so interesting because I was at a conference, I was doing a |
| 1:44.6 | little bit in a conference for Google earlier in the year. And I spoke to somebody there who was |
| 1:48.6 | talking about what they saw in the next 20 years using AI and kind of opening up kind of all these |
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