Can We Trust Silicon Valley With Superintelligence? — With Nick Clegg

You'd want surely politicians to do exactly the thing you've just said, which is hypocritical, is they take the money and they invite person X from Silicon Valley Y to the fishing weekend or the golf retreat. You want them, surely, they'll then still to be able to get up on their hind legs and excoriate those those th those companies and apply to them. But they've done nothing to big tech. They've done nothing to big tech. The former president of global affairs at Meta and deputy prime minister for the UK joins us for a conversation about how to save the internet and whether we should trust Silicon Valley.

with superintelligence. That's coming up right after this. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool headed and nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. Today we are joined by Sir Nick Clegg, the former president of Global Affairs at Meta and the former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK and the author of this great new book, How to Save the Internet, The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and political conflict. It's gonna be a great conversation, Nick, great to see you again.

It's good to be here. Let's start with so you spent a number of years advising Mark Zuckerberg through the tricky um minefields of running Facebook and being this sort of global lightning rod because of the power and influence that Facebook had. So let's just do a little thought experiment to begin with. You are advising Sam Altman um what do the next five years look like?

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