Twenty Western Australian MPs from across the political spectrum have written to the Prime Minister asking for an AI kill switch. The Prime Minister was in the United States the same week, meeting the technology companies. And the question nobody in either conversation quite answers is what a government does when the thing it wants to regulate is built, hosted and understood by somebody else.

Derek Whitaker and Travis Carter spend half an hour there.

Travis takes the kill switch apart first, and not from the side you would expect. His objection is not that it is too strong — it is that it only works once. Hit it and everything is gone, and you are standing there with nothing. What he wants built instead is the opposite of a switch: an AI whose entire job is stopping other AI.

Derek's half of the argument is about capability, and it is less comfortable. Governments do not have the systems, the infrastructure or the capital that the technology companies have. Which is how you end up with the state asking the industry to handle the duty of care it cannot discharge itself — and why, when he asks how often a government website has frustrated you, it is not really a joke about websites.

Then it comes back to your own week.

The two of them go through what AI is already doing inside ordinary businesses — not the ones in Silicon Valley, the ones with four staff and no budget for an experiment. Derek walks through building a working tool for his own business over a weekend, something that used to take him half an hour a client, every client. Travis makes the case that this is the first technology in a long time that makes a small operation look bigger than it is, and that the advantage runs to whoever can change their mind fastest, which is rarely the biggest company in the room.

And there is the line the episode really turns on. The dividing line is not between people and AI. It is between people who know how to use it and people who do not.

It closes somewhere practical: four things worth doing now, and why the most expensive position available is deciding this does not apply to you.

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Recorded Monday 21 September 2026 at Edge Studio, Perth, for The Greater Wealth on Edge Radio Australia.

Education only. Nothing here is personal financial, tax or legal advice.