{"slug": "martin-takes-the-claude-pill", "title": "Martin takes the Claude pill", "summary": "The YIMBY Pod episode discusses the security implications of recent AI advances and how the British government should respond, with co-host James claiming victory in an argument with Martin over AI. The episode also features an interview with Jonn Elledge about his new book, '31 Inventions that Built Our World.'", "body_md": "On ***[YIMBY Pod](https://yimbypod.com)*** this week:\n\n- We talk about the security implications of the latest AI advances – and how the British government should respond to threat. And more importantly, James claims victory in his argument with Martin over AI.\n- Then we speak to the brilliant **[Jonn Elledge](https://jonn.substack.com/)** about his new book,**[31 Inventions that Built Our World](https://link.amazon/B0jaDrMtK).**\n\nJames recently wrote about [the national security case for building data centres](https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/the-case-for-nightingale-datacentres), and [how to fix Top Gear](https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/how-to-fix-top-gear).\n\nMartin’s Substack is [here](https://martinrobbins.substack.com/p/on-picky-bits-and-national-decline), and his YouTube channel is [here](https://www.youtube.com/@MFRobbins).\n\n*Don’t forget to tell your friends about the pod – and leave us a nice review on Apple Podcasts!*\n\n**YIMBY Pod is available on [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-abundance-agenda/id1797392263), [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/2OrB7qxXY7p23kJFVWPeXa?si=2ef32f53891544df), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@YIMBYPod), [Substack](https://yimbypod.com) and hopefully wherever you get your podcasts!**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/martin-takes-the-claude-pill", "canonical_source": "https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/martin-takes-the-claude-pill", "published_at": "2026-09-07 06:01:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 06:26:41.462986+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["YIMBY Pod", "James", "Martin", "Jonn Elledge", "31 Inventions that Built Our World"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/martin-takes-the-claude-pill", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/martin-takes-the-claude-pill.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/martin-takes-the-claude-pill.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/martin-takes-the-claude-pill.jsonld"}}