A Beginner's Guide to AI

AI at School: Why Students Still Need to Struggle - Jonathan Strecker

🤖 AI in education can deliver answers and feedback almost instantly, but does faster performance always produce better learning? Dr. Jonathan Strecker, Head of School at

Job Seekers: Your AI-Written Résumé Is Destroying Trust - Jeremy Schiefeling

Why AI Skills Alone Won’t Build an AI-Proof Career🤖 An AI-proof career requires more than learning the newest tools. It requires knowing when to use AI, when to rely on h

What Heavy Metal Bands Teach You About AI Content Creation // DIETMAR'S THOUGHTS

Why AI-Generated Content Is Not a Content Strategy🎸 What can synthesizers, heavy metal, and the 1980s teach us about artificial intelligence? Quite a lot, according to D

How AI Decides What to See and What to Ignore

👁️ How does artificial intelligence decide what to see? Your eyes can look directly at something without your brain ever noticing it. AI faces a similar problem. A camer

Would You Trust An AI Wearable To Reveal Your Personal Blind Spots? Lyle Maxson Interview

AI wearable technology is usually presented as a way to improve productivity. Lyle Maxson believes the more important opportunity may be self-awareness. As the founder o

We Mustn’t Talk Ourselves Into Helplessness. We Have Agency - Says Simon Bell

🤖 AI anxiety may be more dangerous than AI itself when fear convinces us that the future is inevitable. In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer speaks

Talking About AI Disasters - The Peter McAllister Interview Resurfaced

In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with Peter McAllister about AI risk, AI safety, AI sentience, regulation, and the strange overlap between

AI Existential Risk: Why This Catastrophe Would Be Different // DIETMARs OPINION

A walking essay through historical catastrophes, industrialization, AI 2027, and the possibility of human extinction. 🌍 Humanity has endured epidemics, environmental des

AI Is Changing What Investors Look For in Startups - With Jim Ferry

AI is changing startup investing from the ground up. In this episode, Jim Ferry, Partner at Volition Capital, explains what AI is changing in growth equity, from startup

AI Governance That People Will Actually Follow, with Erica Shoemate // REPOST

Why AI safety is the floor, not the ceiling, and how to pivot with power In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with AI policy and trust & safe

AI Drew Ketchup. It Kept Drawing Heinz.

AI image generation can produce a Victorian bakery run by a polar bear in seconds. But what is actually happening inside the machine? Does it imagine the scene, copy exis

Forget Skynet. The Real AI Threat May Look More Like Khan Noonien Singh // DIETMARS OPINION

1,200 AI Agents Found Each Other. Then 700 Attacked Hugging Face In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer examines the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident

560,000 Words to Trick AI Search Engines? Jason T. Wade

We have a different kind of episode today, I chat with Jason Wade of the Backtier podcast. It's nothing like you know from me, like organized & German, just talking about

The AI Centaur: Why Humans and Machines Work Better Together

What if the future of AI is not humans versus machines, but humans and machines working together? In this episode of Beginner's Guide to AI, we explore the AI Centaur, t

The Real Reason Nvidia Paid 12,9 Billion For Hugging Face? Dietmar's Opinion 💡

Why Nvidia May Pay $12.9 Billion to Keep AI OpenWhy would Nvidia reportedly pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, a company with approximately $150 million in annualized re

The Three Employee Types Blocking Your AI Rollout - Dr. Gleb Tsipursky

AI adoption in the workplace is failing at an alarming rate—95% of AI pilots never scale, according to an MIT study. The problem isn’t the technology; it’s the psychology

Why “AI Strategy” Doesn’t Exist: Dr. Rebecca Homkes on Value Creation and Growth // REPOST

🚀 AI is everywhere, but most organizations are still stuck in “pockets of productivity” that never turn into real business impact. In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Homkes exp

Why AI Ethics Is Really About Who Controls Knowledge - Peter Hardi

AI ethics is increasingly about more than bias, safety and regulation. It may also be about who controls the knowledge that AI systems use to shape our understanding of t

Why AI Agents Aren’t Ready for Business // Dietmar's Opinion

Why AI Agents Aren’t Ready for BusinessWhy autonomous AI still struggles with reliability, cost, security, and practical business value. 🤖 AI agents have been presented

Most AI Systems Don't Fail In The Middle. They Fail At The Edges

Why Your AI Works Perfectly Until It Doesn't Edge Cases, Blind Spots and the Failures Nobody Tests For 🤖 Every AI system has a comfortable middle and a neglected edge.