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Darrell Mann discusses the issues with AI replacing humans and the implications for the UK's innovation landscape.

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 efficiency. If you lead anything — a team, a business, a department — this one is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW THE SHOW — so the next one lands automatically. MONDAY INFLUENCER® — curated expert signal for leaders. No noise. $19.95/mo → https://mondayinfluencer.com FUTURE PROOF LEADER — the weekly briefing, straight to your inbox. → https://substack.com/@futureproofleader Everything else (channels + socials) → https://natschooler.com/tools ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

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