Beeban Kidron
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Sep 18, 2026
Paul SkinnerHOST
Our next exchange is with Eric Beinhocker and Nick Hanowa on market humanism, that will be on October 13th.
Paul SkinnerHOST
We have an exchange of relevance also to this topic with the film director and activist, author of Users, Baroness Kidron, on how we can protect ourselves from big tech on November 24th.
Paul SkinnerHOST
And we'll be exploring how to avoid global conflict in January with Tobias Elwood.
Paul SkinnerHOST
Of course, we have other gatherings in the interim in that period.
Richard KramerGUEST
Yeah.
Richard KramerGUEST
And ha- hats off to Baroness Kidron, who's speaking later, that, you know, she's fought the fight, uh, I mean, to preserve copyright and, and creator IP.
Richard KramerGUEST
But if it's, i- that's akin to walking into a, a newsagent and just stealing the FT and, and reprinting it.
Tim BradshawHOST
We, we licensed to, uh, OpenAI actually-
Beeban KidronGUEST
But the fact that it is controlled by so few hands is not irrelevant.
Ros AtkinsHOST
Baroness Beeban Kidron sits in the House of Lords as a crossbench peer.
Ros AtkinsHOST
Her concern is that a small number of companies will provide AI tools that will become essential to every school, hospital, and government department.
Beeban KidronGUEST
We've moved filtering and monitoring technology into every school in the country.
Brian ChauGUEST
A very good case study for this is, um, AB 2273, which was explicitly co-authored by a, a British NGO called the 5 Rights Foundation.
Brian ChauGUEST
This was an NGO, um, founded by, um, Baroness, um, Beeban Tania Kidron, who, who is this, uh, uh, upper house, uh, literally a baroness, uh, serve- serving in the upper house.
Brian ChauGUEST
So this is a NGO f- founded by, um, a British parliamentarian which is now co-authoring this, um, American bill, uh, along with, um, very powerful politicians in the California legislature, um, Buffy Wicks, uh, a- and Jordan Cunningham.
Brian ChauGUEST
They released this unified statement.
Jack ThorneGUEST
But, you know, we, we still think we need a lot of protection in this current climate, despite whether AI will kill us or not.
Samira AhmedHOST
And Baroness Beeban Kidron, who came on Front Row often, she spearheaded this major campaign to try to get British politicians to better regulate AI.
Samira AhmedHOST
And despite big names like Sir Paul McCartney joining that campaign, it didn't happen.
Samira AhmedHOST
Can you just remind us what's the status of that campaign? What's the status of this attempt by artists to get more regulation and copyright protection?
Andrew HarrisonHOST
He's probably got a T-shirt that says it's a barrister thing, he wouldn't understand.
Andrew HarrisonHOST
It's hello to our multi-hyphenate special guest, Baroness Beeban Kidron, who stepped back from film and TV to campaign for digital safety for kids and lately to write Users, How Big Tech Took Control and How to Fight Back.
Andrew HarrisonHOST
Welcome to the podcast, Beeban.
Andrew HarrisonHOST
Thank you.