{"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":"Sara Grimes: Tech Restrictions for Children are More Dangerous for Their Safety!","slug":"sara-grimes-tech-restrictions-for-children-are-more-dangerous-for-their-safety","published_at":"2026-02-19T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049/sara-grimes-tech-restrictions-for-children-are-more-dangerous-for-their-safety","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ceoretort/episodes/Sara-Grimes-Tech-Restrictions-for-Children-are-More-Dangerous-for-Their-Safety-e3f9jv7","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f711e3e0/podcast/play/115707303/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-1-19%2F418381796-44100-2-3df8da908f6bf.mp3","summary":"Professor Sara M. Grimes is a prominent scholar and world-leading expert in children’s digital media culture, rights, and play. Since August 2024, she has served as a Full Professor at McGill University, where she holds the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy. Her research examines the intersection of technology, commercialisation, and childhood, with a particular focus on digital games and virtual worlds. Join our free newsletter to get notified for future live sessions: ⁠https://newsletter.ceoretort.com⁠ Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Preview (00:02:47) – 2025 Review in terms of children's rights online since Trump's election and his influence on Big Tech. (00:14:25) – How does America's lax behaviour toward regulating big tech impact Canada as the next-door neighbour with deep dependency? (00:20:06) – The big problem with Australia's recently introduced social media ban for under 16s. Why Tim and Sara fundamentally disagree with this approach. (00:26:12) – How certain governments benefit from preventing young generations from accessing social media – ie, their only source of news and geopolitical events! (00:30:34) – The impact of Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" philosophy on children's online safety – a philosophy shared by Epstein! (00:35:30) – The long-term impact of banning children from accessing online platforms on their education and the normalisation of dangerous trends, such as the manosphere. (00:44:20) – Should social media platforms finally be treated and regulated as media outlets and content publishers? (00:49:57) – Early signs of whether the Australian ban is effective, with emerging contradictory arguments. (00:58:18) – Sara's direct response to critics who support tech restrictions for children and social media ban…","meta_description":"Professor Sara M. Grimes is a prominent scholar and world-leading expert in children’s digital media culture, rights, and play. Since August 2024, she has…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5492,"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/sara-grimes-tech-restrictions-for-children-are-more-dangerous-for-their-safety/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/sara-grimes-tech-restrictions-for-children-are-more-dangerous-for-their-safety.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}