The Amol Rajan Connection

Can we make AI care about humans? How could AI wipe us out?  And what will the future look like?  Your questions answered by Ian Hogarth - the co-founder and chair of the UK’s AI Security Institute and a co-founder and partner at the investment group Plural - on the Amol Rajan Connection.

Chapters:

00:00 Your questions answered: AI security and the future

01:24 How could AI wipe out humans?

04:20 Are we too late to save ourselves from AI?

06:08 AI scraping and Copyright

08:37 What happens when AI and Quantum combine?

11:21 AI accountability

12:28 What is the environmental impact of data centres?

15:53 What does a lack of UK data centres mean for UK sovereignty?

18:25 How do we monitor AI decisions in companies?

19:49 Is Anthropic's constitution an adequate safeguard for the future?

21:23 What does the future of work look like?

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Team:

Video Editor: Rachel Dinnewell 

Cameras & Sound: Chris Meloff, Finn Clarkson, Jack Kircher at Koko Studios

Producers:  Pastel House Media   

Produced in partnership with Sister Group 

Social Media: Kiera Maloney

Executive Producer: Elizabeth Needham-Bennett

AI, robotics, quantum computing and nuclear fusion are revolutionary technologies changing our lives. But are they changing them for the better?  Are we too late to control AI? How do we get the best out of AI? The Amol Rajan Connection explores the risks and benefits with Ian Hogarth - the co-founder and chair of the UK’s AI Security Institute and a co-founder and partner at the investment group Plural. What does he worry about the most?

Chapters

00:00:00 Ian Hogarth on slowing down the AI race

00:12:42 The magnitude of the AI impact on us

00:13:55 Waitrose advert

00:18:04 The current state of AI development

00:21:30 The complex policy challenge we face

00:26:35 Amazon advert

00:29:31 Why I gave up my Anthropic shares

00:33:50 How can we use AI to improve our lives now

00:36:01 Is there an AI bubble?

00:38:41 What governments need to worry about now

00:42:02 Tech investments that could change the world

00:44:40 Google Cloud advert

00:45:20 Let's talk about Quantum Computing

00:48:20 Protecting UK companies in the tech race

00:56:00 Robotics and the tech frontier

00:57:57 Natwest advert

00:59:02 The future of jobs

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Team:

Video Editor: Rachel Dinnewell 

Cameras & Sound: Chris Meloff, Finn Clarkson, Jack Kircher at Koko Studios

Producers:  Pastel House Media   

Produced in partnership with Sister Group 

Social Media: Kiera Maloney

Executive Producer: Elizabeth Needham-Bennett

Fixing the literacy crisis; Using AI in education; dealing with difficult teachers. Educationalist Daisy Christodoulou answers your questions on the Amol Rajan Connection.

Chapters

00:00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:15:00 How do we encourage kids to enjoy reading?

00:04:30:00 Helping the quiet children

00:07:00:00 A middle ground between the 3 Rs and children choosing.

00:08:25:00 Avoiding a ‘one size fits all’ education for SEND children?

00:13:50:00 How do we teach children to use AI in a positive way?

00:16:43:00 How do I stop my teachers picking on me?

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Team:

Video Editor: Rachel Dinnewell

Cameras & Sound: Chris Meloff, Oakley Moffatt, Jack Kircher at Koko Studios

Producers: Pastel House Media

Produced in partnership with Sister Group

Social Media: Kiera Maloney

Executive Producer: Elizabeth Needham-Bennett

Dubbed Britain’s brightest student on University Challenge, Daisy Christodoulou is now one of the UK’s biggest brains in education. If you’re a parent, a teacher or a pupil, what Daisy has to say on the Amol Rajan Connection is urgent and matters, if we are to navigate the future together. And she’s not afraid to challenge current policies on teaching across the UK.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Daisy Christodoulou and the education debate

00:04:00 Who is Daisy Christodoulou?

00:08:06 When Daisy realised education was going wrong

00:12:50 Why we need long term memory and knowledge

00:17:56 Should we have more vocational courses?

00:29:14 The big education experiment in the UK

00:38:54 Daisy's Seven Myths of Education

01:02:17 The politics of education

01:05:42 Understanding the NEETs crisis

01:09:00 AI and education - are we getting dumber?

01:13:47 How should parents prepare kids for the future?

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Team:

Video Editor: Rachel Dinnewell

Cameras & Sound: Chris Meloff, Oakley Moffatt, Jack Kircher at Koko Studios

Producers:  Pastel House Media 

Production Support: Aphelia Jones & Merrie Cecilia 

Produced in partnership with Sister Group 

Social Media: Kiera Maloney

Executive Producer: Elizabeth Needham-Bennett

Credit: University Challenge, Granada Television, BBC2

The queen of cookery reveals the secret to perfect roast potatoes and the key to cooking moist meat.  Delia Smith, who has sold over 21 million books and taught a nation how to cook, answers questions on the Amol Rajan Connection. 

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Team:

Video Editor: Ben Bonsey

Cameras & Sound: Chris Meloff, Oakley Moffatt, Jack Kircher at Koko Studios

Producers:  Pastel House Media 

Production Support: Aphelia Jones & Merrie Cecilia 

Produced in partnership with Sister Group 

Social Media: Kiera Maloney

Executive Producer: Elizabeth Needham-Bennett

Delia Smith has been one the most famous women in Britain for the past 50 years, selling over 20 million books and teaching a nation to cook.

This interview was recorded just a few days after the death of her late husband Michael. She talks about adapting to life without him - her career - and her new book, ‘US: Nine ingredients to change our world’, trying to connect and unite communities.

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Team:

Video Editor: Ben Bonsey

Cameras & Sound: Chris Meloff, Oakley Moffatt, Jack Kircher at Koko Studios

Producers:  Pastel House Media 

Production Support: Aphelia Jones & Merrie Cecilia 

Produced in partnership with Sister Group 

Social Media: Kiera Maloney

Executive Producer: Elizabeth Needham-Bennett

Sir Gareth Southgate takes questions on the Amol Rajan Connection: Including from the former BBC boss, Tim Davie,  about dealing with huge characters and egos. Follow-up episode with a giant of English football.  

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Team:

Video Editor: Ben Bonsey

Cameras & Sound: Chris Meloff, Oakley Moffatt, Jack Kircher at Koko studios

Producers:  Tom Norris, Rachel Dinnewell at Pastel House Media

Produced in partnership with Sister Group 

Social Media: Kiera Maloney

Executive Producer: Elizabeth Needham-Bennett

A giant of English football, Southgate is on top form and more candid than ever in this unmissable conversation with Amol Rajan. He talks about what he’s learned from failure; why he stopped enjoying football; how the game is letting fans down; whether he would return; and why he now spends so much time thinking about the crisis of meaning afflicting so many men. How can we build confident, kind, resilient young people? Gareth distils years of hard thinking and wisdom on leadership, challenging characters, and what it means to be English today. And he explains what comes next in his own remarkable journey.

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Team:

Video Editor: Ben Bonsey

Cameras & Sound: Chris Meloff, Oakley Moffatt, Jack Kircher 

Producer: Tom Norris, Rachel Dinnewell at Pastel House Media

Produced in partnership with Sister Group - production lead: Bryony Hopkins

Social Media: Kiera Maloney

Executive Producer: Elizabeth Needham-Bennett

If life feels like it's happening TO you, not FOR you, then The Amol Rajan Connection is here to help. This show will slow the world down, explain the mighty forces shaping our era - and help you Win the Future. 

We're living through one of history's hinge moments. An old order is crumbling and a new one struggling to be born. AI, smartphones, global heating; ageing population; economic crisis: we’re about to get a century of change in a single decade. 

Amol was Editor of The Independent at 29; spent years leading the BBC’s coverage of global Technology; was Presenter of Radio 4’s flagship Today Programme and the prime-time Amol Rajan Interviews; is Host of University Challenge; and was a useless Faithful on Celebrity Traitors. 

With 20 years in News behind him, Amol has always been more interested in deep trends than fleeting events. The Amol Rajan Connection is a welcoming space where the most smart, dynamic, influential and brave people on the planet help us understand how the world is changing - and give you the confidence to navigate it. 

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