{"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":"Richard Murphy: The AI Bubble is a Prelude to a Much Bigger Economic Collapse","slug":"richard-murphy-the-ai-bubble-is-a-prelude-to-a-much-bigger-economic-collapse","published_at":"2026-01-22T07:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049/richard-murphy-the-ai-bubble-is-a-prelude-to-a-much-bigger-economic-collapse","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ceoretort/episodes/Richard-Murphy-The-AI-Bubble-is-a-Prelude-to-a-Much-Bigger-Economic-Collapse-e3e0329","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f711e3e0/podcast/play/114346505/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-0-21%2F416578125-44100-2-9c11fd4140977.mp3","summary":"We are joined by the prominent British political economist and campaigner, Richard Murphy, discussing the latest AI bubble turmoil and its role in a broader economic collapse – could be as soon as the end of 2026! It’s an energetic conversation that will open your eyes to the post-AI economics. Richard is a highly active commentator, blogging daily at Funding the Future and on his YouTube channel @RichardJMurphy -- which has seen significant growth, reaching over 325,000 subscribers and 30 million views by the end of 2025. Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Preview (00:02:35) – How being a twin shaped Richard's journey in political economics and campaigns (00:10:22) – Ad to help you navigate media bias (00:12:29) – Tim and Richard explore why one becomes interested in economic equality and the politics of care (00:20:22) – What people don't get about economics and the problem with profit maximisation models (00:23:38) – How did the damaging neoliberalism model take over the global economy and give rise to today's tech broligarchy, and its impact on the AI bubble (00:37:40) – Why do people become ideologically attached to illogical and self-damaging economic narratives? (00:43:46) – The absurdly illogical narrative of growing the economy with loss-making AI services while destroying millions of jobs, and pushing for UBI while expecting lower taxation! (00:49:53) – Today, the AI bubble and Trump are completely linked and the clearest evidence that neoliberalism has run out of ideas. It's now a neoliberalism bubble. Episode Notes & Citations: ⁠ https://ceoretort.com/podcast/guest/2026/01/22/richard-murphy-the-ai-bubble-is-a-prelude-to-a-much-bigger-economic-collapse/ Support our independence by becoming a member: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://CEORetort.com/Support⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…","meta_description":"We are joined by the prominent British political economist and campaigner, Richard Murphy, discussing the latest AI bubble turmoil and its role in a broad…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3817,"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/richard-murphy-the-ai-bubble-is-a-prelude-to-a-much-bigger-economic-collapse/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/richard-murphy-the-ai-bubble-is-a-prelude-to-a-much-bigger-economic-collapse.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}