Apple CEO Tim Cook sat down with Dua Lipa for a rare podcast interview on her show “Dua Lipa: At Your Service.” The pair covered a wide range of topics, but the one that’s drawn listeners’ attention is Lipa being the first to publicly ask Cook about the use of child labor to mine cobalt for “my new iPhone 15,” a question the CEO was willing to answer… kind of.
Lipa said, “I came across some, like, I guess distressing articles about young kids mining cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And I guess it’s a complicated issue for all tech companies, but, I guess what I was wondering is, my new iPhone 15 … can you guarantee that the cobalt in that phone has not been mined using child labor in the DRC?”
“Yes, we can,” Cook said.