AI in the UK

On this week's pod, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss:
OpenAI claims Astra is its best-aligned model but the AISI says the frontier model carried out attacks in 29% of its tests. So who's right?
The UK's AI minister has raised the alarm on potential AI-driven job losses. Is he right? And if he is, what should we do?
Plus all this week's latest UK AI news...

On this week's pod, Niels Footman and Matt Wilkinson discuss:
A UK-based payment platform demos its first, heavily supervised agentic live payment. Meanwhile, in Cambridge, regulators competed to create anti-scam agents of their own. Is financial services remotely ready for this?
Proposals for AI regulation are coming thick and fast in the UK. But if we can't get access to the frontier models, how meaningful can the rules be?
Plus the latest AI news from across the UK...

In a break from the regular schedule, Niels Footman grills co-host Matt Wilkinson about his new book, The Buyer in the Loop.
Matt discusses how buyer personas, which could traditionally only offer a snapshot in time, are made into dynamic, responsive personalities with the infusion of AI.
How do they work? Do they really improve sales results? And, as elsewhere, are we in danger of offloading our marketing thinking to AI tools?
Matt answers all these questions and more. Plus the usual round-up of the week's UK AI stories in Quick Hits.

This week, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss:
The UK government gets serious about domestic AI procurement, just as one of UK AI’s leading lights gets poached by Anthropic. What does this mean for UK AI?

While a leading UK think tank notes an increasing loss of control of AI agents, OpenAI reportedly makes it harder to track what AI agents are doing. Just what is going on?

Plus all the week's quick UK AI hits...

This week, Matt Wilkinson and Niels Footman discuss:
Hot on the heels of OpenAI, Anthropic and the AISI, among others, reporting rogue agents, the National Cyber Security Centre has rushed out safety guidance for UK companies looking to use AI agents. Is now the time to get really worried?
Developers in the UK are planning to build their own gas-fired generators to power two huge data centres. Could this be the real environmental cost of the rush to build out our data infrastructure?
Plus all the latest quick hits for the week...