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The Machine Ethics podcast: the AI bubble with Tim El-Sheikh


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11 December 2025



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Hosted by Ben Byford, The Machine Ethics Podcast brings together interviews with academics, authors, business leaders, designers and engineers on the subject of autonomous algorithms, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and technology’s impact on society.

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, AI use cases, whether GenAI is even safe, the AI bubble, snake oil salesmen, why we need all these data centres, replacing human workers, data oligarchies, the erosion of trust in AI, AI psychosis and more…

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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.

About The Machine Ethics podcast

This podcast was created and is run by Ben Byford and collaborators. The podcast, and other content was first created to extend Ben’s growing interest in both the AI domain and in the associated ethics. Over the last few years the podcast has grown into a place of discussion and dissemination of important ideas, not only in AI but in tech ethics generally. As the interviews unfold on they often veer into current affairs, the future of work, environmental issues, and more. Though the core is still AI and AI Ethics, we release content that is broader and therefore hopefully more useful to the general public and practitioners.

The hope for the podcast is for it to promote debate concerning technology and society, and to foster the production of technology (and in particular, decision making algorithms) that promote human ideals.

Join in the conversation by getting in touch via email here or following us on Twitter and Instagram.




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