Special Report: Will the AI revolution end politics as we know it?
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Imagine if the Industrial Revolution took place over 10 years instead of 100. Imagine if most human labour was about to become redundant. Imagine if machines transformed our economy, our society, our politics.
You'd think politicians would be talking about it, making policies to manage it - leading a critical national conversation, perhaps even raising the alarm.
Well you don't need to imagine it. It's already happening. And our politicians are, almost entirely, silent.
In this special report, Lewis sees firsthand the almost unbelievable changes already afoot on America's west coast, at the pioneering forefront of the AI revolution. If AI is about to overtake our politics, why aren't our leaders talking - or even thinking - about it?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.7 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | We are looking to the future, specifically our future with artificial intelligence |
| 0:19.3 | and how it might change our lives. |
| 0:21.6 | AI has learned to bypass commands from humans when asked to shut itself down. |
| 0:27.6 | I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen. |
| 0:33.6 | AI engineers in the world who create these things, we have no idea how AI actually works. |
| 0:38.3 | China winning the AI race is a huge risk for super intelligence that's beyond our control. |
| 0:43.3 | Part of that may sound like a little sci-fi. |
| 0:45.3 | What we're seeing with AI is the S-curve is really steep and we're still on it. |
| 0:50.3 | They get much, much better, much more quickly than people that been used to in the past. Chatbots that people are beginning to really develop emotional connections with. |
| 0:58.0 | It's here even faster than I'd imagine back in 2019 and 2020. |
| 1:01.0 | But right now it's just breakneck. There's no, there's no governors on what's happening. |
| 1:06.0 | Those graduates are having a hard time finding jobs. |
| 1:08.0 | Maybe make things easier. Maybe it takes care of some of the blunt level work you don't like doing. |
| 1:12.6 | And I talk to CEOs who are replacing thousands of customer service workers with AI. |
| 1:18.6 | Wow, it's accelerating faster than you even thought. |
| 1:21.6 | When we're making beings, which is what we're doing that, don't just think about intelligence. |
| 1:26.6 | Think about the rest of what's in a being. |
| 1:35.3 | You've just heard the headlines. Algorithms predicting our choices before we've made them. |
| 1:40.3 | Factories without workers. Students submitting essays they didn't write. The story of artificial intelligence is everywhere, in our phones, in our hospitals, in our parliaments. |
| 1:51.0 | It's being sold as a revolution. |
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