Artificial Intelligence is back in the news with a vengeance, as OpenAI broke into a Medicare statistics website, and tech bosses called for a slow down in AI development until we can be assured it is safe. Meanwhile there is widespread community opposition to data centres to power AI.

Jacques and Jennifer talk about two key factors stopping AI being regulated properly: (i) our society being run for corporate profit, and (ii) politically-motivated, weak government. They turn to PM Andy Burnham in the UK, for inspiration as to what courageous and principled leadership might look and sound like. 

References

Richard Flanagan 2026, 'Albanese is selling out Australia to AI colonists', The Age, 18 September, p.24.

Ian Dunt Substack 2026, 'Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment', 29 September.

Nick Bryant Substack 2026, 'The perfect apocalypse: Rapid advancements in AI come at a terrible time', 14 September.

Karen Barlow 2026, 'Exclusive: The former staffers influencing government on AI', The Saturday Paper, No. 620, 3 October (NB: Published the day after the progam went to air).