{"podcast":{"title":"The CEO Retort with Tim El-Sheikh","slug":"the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049","podcast_index_feed_id":7053049,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f711e3e0/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://ceoretort.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/41351448/41351448-1774183064160-f01334226310f.jpg","author":"Athmetric","episode_count":61,"summary":"Bringing real experts and forward-thinkers out of the clickbait shadows for greater knowledge, purpose, and performance. The CEO Retort is a thought-provoking podcast that features leading experts, entrepreneurs, authors, journalists, and thinkers scrutinising how science, business, health, politics, technology, and AI influence our lives. Hosted by Tim El-Sheikh — a serial deeptech and AI entrepreneur since 2002, one of the first-generation AI pioneers at Google Campus London, a biomedical scientist, and ex-pro athlete. He is currently at the frontier of human-centric Augmented Intelligence.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049"},"episode":{"title":"AI's Deadly Deployment in the Iran War that Killed School Girls --- The CEO Retort Podcast","slug":"ai-s-deadly-deployment-in-the-iran-war-that-killed-school-girls-the-ceo-retort-podcast","published_at":"2026-03-12T15:21:09+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049/ai-s-deadly-deployment-in-the-iran-war-that-killed-school-girls-the-ceo-retort-podcast","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ceoretort/episodes/AIs-Deadly-Deployment-in-the-Iran-War-that-Killed-School-Girls-----The-CEO-Retort-Podcast-e3gb8a2","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f711e3e0/podcast/play/116809474/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-12%2F419862528-44100-2-c0a9b81bf3a7b.mp3","summary":"The Iran war marks the beginning of the era of widespread use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) as key tools for military targeting.The tragic strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls School, resulting in the loss of over 160 children, underscores the risks of relying on AI for targeting decisions without strict human intervention.Join the conversation now to see the dangerous outcomes of relying on AI for life and death situations. Join our free newsletter to get notified for future live sessions: https://ceoretort.com/newsletter Support our independence by becoming a member: https://CEORetort.com/Support Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Preview (00:00:53) – Questioning the Anthropic-Pentagon drama and the use of AI in the Iran war, with a Retort (00:06:51) – Anthropic's AI in Iran's military intelligence and operations: A dangerous precedent (00:09:54) – Consequences of outsourcing decisions to AI: Killing of school children! (00:13:22) – Could it be algorithmic hallucinations or outdated intelligence data fed into the model? (00:14:06) – Could it be intentional, with strikes on multiple civilian locations, including 13 hospitals?? (00:15:51) – Yet another example of why AI cannot replace human judgment (00:19:05) – The history behind AI in the US military and the role of Palantir Technologies (00:21:25) – AI's limitations in real-world decision making, especially in life-ending situations! (00:22:10) – Questioning Anthropic's "red lines" with the Pentagon: Naivety or delusion? (00:24:38) – Anthropic's questionable ethical stance and questionable industry and political reactions (00:30:11) – Legal battles between Anthropic and the Pentagon, with questionable industry solidarity (00:35:12) – The accelerated anti-AI reckoning an…","meta_description":"The Iran war marks the beginning of the era of widespread use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) as key tools for…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2616,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049/episodes/ai-s-deadly-deployment-in-the-iran-war-that-killed-school-girls-the-ceo-retort-podcast/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049/ai-s-deadly-deployment-in-the-iran-war-that-killed-school-girls-the-ceo-retort-podcast.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}