S14 Ep8: Managed Decline In The UK: Why AI as Human Replacement with Darrell Mann
The UK is spending half a billion pounds on sovereign AI and sitting sixth in the world for real deployment. Something structural is broken — and Darrell Mann knows exactly what it is.
Darrell is a former Chief Engineer of Rolls Royce and one of the world's leading systematic innovation experts. We strip away the political PR and get into why 98% of R&D spending fails, why engineers need to be running state infrastructure instead of lawyers, and why corporations using AI purely to replace humans are walking into what Darrell calls managed decline — a slow institutional death disguised as…
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