This is John Batcher, a happy conversation with my colleague Joseph Sternberg, editorial board of the Wall Street Journal.

He writes the Political Economics Column. He's based in London.

And we discussed what artificial intelligence, open chat, geep T, Gemini, anthropic,

the one I favor, Claude.

What that means to life in London. We first talked about the

check out at the grocery stores, the big stores, Tesco, that sort of thing, Sainsbury. But then we came to what does it mean

to the London political voice? What does it mean to the London hopes? And Joe has a very good answer. It has a lot to do with NHS. Here's Joe Sternberg in

London talking about AI arriving. What's interesting is this optimism in the UK that A. I could solve some long-standing problems.

For example, the Labor Party, which may win the next election is talking about how they

could try to use AI to reform the National Health Service to make it work better at

long last. So I think that there is this hope that it can be this great tool for progress and finally

unsticking some of these long-term log jams, but also the natural suspicion about this technology and

uncertainty about exactly what the effects might be once they go down that road.

More of this later, thank you.