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The CEO RetortVeteran AI Experts: The AI bubble is much worse than we ever expectedThe tables have turned! Tim El-Sheikh is being interviewed by Ben Byford on his show, The Machine Ethics Podcast, discussing why the AI bubble is far worse than we thought and how it has become a financial nightmare.Ben is a good friend of our show here at The CEO Retort and a previous guest who discussed digital ethics and ethical AI, without the hyperbolic doom-and-gloom fantasy.As part of our collaboration, I’m the guest this time, and Ben and I discuss podcasting, the history of OpenAI, London st...
2025-12-011h 09
Machine Ethics Podcast episodesThe AI Bubble with Tim El-SheikhThis month we're chatting again with Tim El-Sheikh. We discuss podcasting,
history of openAI, London startups, what are the AI use cases, is GenAI even safe? the AI bubble, snake oil salesmen, why do we need all these data centres? replacing human workers, data oligachies, the erosion of trust in AI, AI psychosis and more...
2025-11-191h 00
The CEO RetortEthical AI is the only way to save humanity | Ben ByfordBen is a podcaster of the Machine Ethics Podcast and one of the earliest and most avid advocates for digital ethics and ethical AI, long before it became fashionable in the current AI hype cycle.Ben runs the Ethical by Design consultancy, focusing on AI models. He makes games with his company, Nuclear Candy Games. He has also worked on web and app projects and has taught data science, design and coding with Cambridge Spark, Decoded and Ada College.This conversation was recorded in 2024, before I decided to launch the podcast. Yet the talking points are...
2025-08-251h 20
Machine Ethics Podcast episodesAI readiness with Tim El-SheikhThis episode we're talking with Tim El-Sheikh of Nebuli.com. We chat about definitions of intelligence and augmented intelligence, ethical AI as the smarter AI, importance of a businesses AI strategy and getting data ready, AGI and what is conciousness? Human intuition, privacy as a human right and more...
2021-10-101h 00
Machine Ethics Podcast episodesEvolution and AI with Tim TaylorThis month is part one of a loose series on the history of AI in Culture. In Part 1 I talk to Tim Taylor about his upcoming book on evolving machines before the 1950s, at length about genetic algorithms and their environments, as well as Descartes notion of animals as machines, machine and human co-evolution and much more. I also started a new AI consultancy for companies looking to implement responsible AI - www.ethicalby.design
2018-07-2745 min