{"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":"UK's First Academic AI Leader: AI will always need human creativity in order to exist","slug":"uk-s-first-academic-ai-leader-ai-will-always-need-human-creativity-in-order-to-exist","published_at":"2025-12-15T13:11:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049/uk-s-first-academic-ai-leader-ai-will-always-need-human-creativity-in-order-to-exist","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ceo-retort-with-tim-el-sheikh-7053049","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ceoretort/episodes/UKs-First-Academic-AI-Leader-AI-will-always-need-human-creativity-in-order-to-exist-e3cboqs","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/f711e3e0/podcast/play/112632092/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-11-15%2F414393653-44100-2-6a56639fccd1f.mp3","summary":"A deep dive into the evolving landscape of AI and the current push against genuine innovation, from engineering to the arts. Professor Shushma Patel is the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Artificial Intelligence at De Montfort University (DMU) in the UK. As a prominent figure in computing, engineering, and media education, Shushma is the first person in the UK to hold a senior university leadership position dedicated solely to AI. With nearly 30 years of experience in higher education, working as a lecturer, researcher, and academic leader, Shushma is a passionate advocate for equality, diversity, and inclusion, particularly in promoting women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and leadership. Timestamps: (00:00:00) – Preview (00:04:05) – How Shushma's overseeing a unique faculty mergers of Computing, Engineering and Media with Arts, Design & Humanities (00:14:56) – Tim and Shushma discuss the importance of being outliers and how it impacted their careers in AI (00:32:15) – Tim and Shusham debate whether there is a need for AI degrees and courses (00:38:54) – The biggest problem in the world of AI is a lack of people's understanding and real-world applications beyond the hype (00:44:48) – Is AI really replacing jobs, or is it "fake layoffs"? (00:50:48) – What does a successful deployment of AI models look like in the real world and business applications? (00:59:28) – AI's negative impact on families, younger generations and their learning skills, and why educators and parents need to act (01:10:47) – How corporations manipulate consumer perceptions and pricing using AI (01:17:22) – How the tech sector pushes toxic and negative narratives against students and young people, painting a hopeless picture for their futures (01:31:04) – Why supp…","meta_description":"A deep dive into the evolving landscape of AI and the current push against genuine innovation, from engineering to the arts. Professor Shushma Patel is th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6493,"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/uk-s-first-academic-ai-leader-ai-will-always-need-human-creativity-in-order-to-exist/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/uk-s-first-academic-ai-leader-ai-will-always-need-human-creativity-in-order-to-exist.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}