Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 27, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York

Harari tells Rory Stewart that Britain must spend about £500 billion on its own AI or accept dependence on the United States

The British government's actual sovereign AI fund is up to £500 million, three orders of magnitude below the figure Harari named.

The historian Yuval Noah Harari told Rory Stewart on The Rest Is Politics that a country whose economy and military run on AI infrastructure "that the Americans can shut down at the press of a button" is no longer independent, as summarized…