# 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.

- Published: 2026-10-27T06:18:03.036Z
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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…

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