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Tim Gordon

AI strategist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Best Practice AI in London, appearing on the NFU Shed Talks podcast to discuss how AI is shaping the future of farming.

May 27, 2026

LukeCORRESPONDENT
31:46
What could a farmer do today to start embracing and using AI on their farm?
31:51
So I mean, clearly there's lots of people trying to sell you stuff at the moment, and I'm sure every supplier who's rocking up is saying, "We've got an amazing AI widget, it's gonna transform the world." All of that's good.
31:59
Treat it with a pinch of salt.
32:01
There are people making money from, from selling magic pixie dust, so treat all of that with appropriate caution.
32:06
I would just encourage those people to say, look, get... start doing this stuff.
32:10
You know, get one of these tools, ChatGPT, Claude, Google, whatever.
32:14
You know, they, th- which one's best keeps changing, but they're all doing similar things.

7 MINS LATER

LukeCORRESPONDENT
39:14
Mm
45:52
Absolutely.
45:53
Did not know he was a gladio guy It doesn't surprise me that much but it's interesting Anyway, like that's where Francis got this Usage he habituated the strong usage the main mechanism of his papacy of of weaponized ambiguity, where you float something out there that both sides, like Juan Peron, the left and the right can use, and it creates Hegelian arguments.
46:20
But you can take something that is fixed and clear and crystallized, like Catholic doctrine on, say, whatever, female deacons, and through weaponized ambiguity, you can keep it alive, which is what Francis did.
46:36
And I would note, that in the Leo pontificate, the primary reason I think he was elected is not only to push stuff like the reunion effort, but Because Americans are like over 33% of the donors to Peter's Pence.
46:57
And of course, Pope Francis was really, really, really unpopular in America.
47:03
Secular and Protestant conservatives really disliked him, obviously.
47:07
And so they wanted to float this guy that would continue Francis's program.
51:38
But

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