Tony Blair: Governing in the Age of AI
Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the UK, joins Azeem Azhar in conversation about how the technology industry and policy makers can work together to amplify their potential to serve the public good. Regulating big tech, as Blair explains, is only a small part of the solution in a necessary effort to transform our society and economy for the exponential age.
Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
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Show Notes
If the UK’s former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was in the government today, he says that he would mobilize his whole office around the technology revolution. Tony Blair and Azeem Azhar discuss why the tech leaders must collaborate with policy makers — whether they want to or not — and why regulating big technology is only a small part of the solution.
In this podcast, Tony and Azeem also discuss:
- Why Silicon Valley needs to share societal responsibility with the public sector
- How the government needs to change to be at the forefront of the technology revolution
- How the power of the technology industry has become its greatest liability
Further reading:
- “Tony Blair Foreword: Technology for the Many” (Institute for Global Change, November 2017)
- “Regulating Big Tech” (Exponential View, September 2019)
- “Majority Worldwide Say Their Society is Broken — An Increasing Feeling Among Britons” (IPSOS, September 2019)
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