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Baroness Kidron completed Hollywood. She could be living the high life. Instead she's outchea trying to take down the latest Frankenstein of Capitalism: Big Tech.

Beeban is a crossbench peer in the House of Lords and has dedicated the latter stage of her career to keeping children safe online. It's somehow a contentious topic. Are children safe on the internet? Or has our generation been exposed to irreparable harms?

We discuss all this and more: what does AI sovereignty look like? How has Britain been captured by American corporate interests? What can we do to fight back?

Chapters

00:00 Intro

02:15 Growing Up With Socials

07:20 Gen-Z, The Anxious Generation?

13:08 Does Big Tech Own Us?

17:03 Corporate America's Capture of Westminster

22:00 How the Tech Broligarchy Took Over

26:35 AI Sovereignty

32:05 What Could Spark the Anti-Big-Tech Revolution

39:15 The UK's AI Security Institute

43:23 Temporarily Embarassed Millionaires

48:14 Destruction of Real Life Communities

52:15 Britain's Dependency On US Tech

56:45 Gen-Z and Unemployment

1:03:01 Left-Wing Patriotism and National Service