The Rest Is Money 258. How AI changes everything we should teach kids
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Mar 9, 2026 Marc Warner, founder and CEO of Faculty AI, turned PhD talent into a company applying AI across health, education and business. He recounts building an NHS COVID early-warning system, selling Faculty to Accenture, and argues schools should stop banning AI. The conversation covers AI safety, training people to work with agents, and what children should learn as jobs shift.
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How Faculty Started By Training PhD Talent
- Faculty began as a programme converting PhDs into AI engineers, then hired top applicants and expanded into applied AI and safety work.
- Early recruiting pulled ~10% of UK maths, physics and engineering PhDs into applications, creating a talent pipeline for projects.
Building The NHS Early Warning System
- Marc Warner and Faculty staff joined NHSX in early 2020 to build an early warning system predicting hospital demand during COVID.
- The team scaled from ~15 to ~40, fed anonymous data into models, and informed ministers leading to earlier lockdown decisions.
Safe Widespread Adoption Reduces AI Risk
- Wide, safe adoption of AI is the best mitigation for technical and political risks like concentration of power and malicious use.
- Marc argues a small independent UK firm couldn't alone achieve global safe deployment, hence partnering with Accenture for scale.