Nick Clegg on Meta, AI and the Battle for Big Tech (Part One)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorrenti. Nick Clegg has had a seat at the heart of power for nearly two decades. As leader of the Liberal Democrats, he served as deputy prime minister from twenty ten to twenty fifteen in the coalition government with David Cameron. After losing his parliamentary seat in 2017, he became Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's right hand man as president of global affair at Meta. Recently, Clegg spoke to journalist and broadcaster Kamal Ahmad on the Intelligence Squad stage to discuss the relationship between big tech and global politics.

And the future of AI and the internet. Today's episode is part one of their conversation live at Union Chapel in London. If you'd like to listen to this episode in full and ad free, why not consider becoming an Intelligence Squared member at intelligence squared.com forward slash membership or tap the IQ2 extra button on Apple. Let's join our host, Kamal Ahmad now, with more. So much. Thanks. Uh Mia.

Nick Clegg, Sinic. I'm assuming I don't have to call you Sinic. No, you do. Oh okay. I will call you Sinic. Nick and I Nick and I have known each other for several years. I was just reminding him um that one of our uh earlier encounters was on the day he lost His chef seats and I bumped into this. the following day, but we're not gonna go deeply into politics, although possibly we might do towards the end of our discussion. But Nick Welcome.

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