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The programme featured an interview with Darren Jones, a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Prime Minister, about warnings from AI industry figures that advanced systems could pose existential risks. Jones distinguished between safe AI, which he said had driven UK economic growth, and unsafe AI that might act without human oversight or be exploited by bad actors, and argued that governments should cooperate on independent testing and accreditation rather than overreact or ban the technology.

Jones acknowledged that President Trump sees AI as a race the US must win, making a global regulatory agreement unlikely, but suggested nations could still agree on preventing loss of control over these systems. He also said the AI investment bubble might burst, which could affect the UK economy, and noted the need to prepare for potential disruption to jobs and public services. He praised the UK's AI Security Institute as world-leading and called for scaling it up internationally.