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EPISODE · Jan 21, 2026 · 26 MIN

AI Hallucinates a West Ham Game, Cambridge Engineers AIs With Doubt, UK's "Real World" AI Action Plan May Be Bearing Fruit

from AI in the UK · host Niels Footman and Matt Wilkinson

This week, Niels Footman and Matt Wilkinson discuss:In the latest installment of “what were they thinking?”, an AI hallucinated football match costs a chief constable his job.While Silicon Valley optimises for confidence, Cambridge is engineering doubt — and regulators may prefer it.Forget chatbots — the UK is quietly betting that the real AI money is in mud, microbes and manufacturing.

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