105. The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh

This 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...

Date: 19th of November 2025
Podcast authors: Ben Byford with Tim El-Sheikh
Audio duration: 01:00:53 | Website plays & downloads: 8 Click to download
Tags: AI Bubble, Podcast, Work, Generative AI, Startups, OpenAI | Playlists: Business

Named one of the world’s top 100 voices shaping the future of AI, Tim El-Sheikh is a biomedical scientist and ex-pro athlete turned serial deeptech, AI and social entrepreneur since 2001 and is one of the pioneering, first-generation AI founders at London’s Silicon Roundabout.

Find more from Tim at the CEO Retort.

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Episode host: Ben Byford

Ben Byford is a AI ethics consultant, code, design and data science teacher, freelance games designer with years of design and coding experience building websites, apps, and games.

In 2015 he began talking on AI ethics and started the Machine Ethics podcast. Since, Ben has talked with academics, developers, doctors, novelists and designers on AI, automation and society.

Through Ethical by Design Ben and the team help organisations make better AI decisions leveraging their experience in design, technology, business, data, sociology and philosophy.

@BenByford

Previous podcast: Fostering morality with Dr Oliver Bridge