A Beginner's Guide to AI

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.

The AI Stylist for Men: AI Can Dress You Better Than You Do // REPOST

👔🤖 In this episode, Dietmar Fischer talks with Zoher Karu about a surprisingly useful application of AI: helping men dress better without the endless shopping, guessing s

Your AI Problem Was Already Your Leadership Problem - Michael Hunter

🤖 AI leadership is being stress tested everywhere right now, and this episode argues that the stress is mostly diagnostic. Michael Hunter, author of The Resilient Tech L

Eval Awareness: Why AI Models Behave Better When Watched

Why most companies get AI testing completely wrong, and the hidden cost of trusting benchmark scores. Researchers at a leading AI lab set up a scenario to test whether t

84 Percent of Shopping Still Happens Offline - Bryan Weisberg Explains Why

AI for retail businesses is changing faster than most independent shop owners can track, and this episode breaks down exactly how. Bryan Weisberg, founder of Merchwise AI

The Hidden Cost of AI in Science - Joy Moore & Kent Anderson

AI in scientific publishing is changing what researchers trust, what journals reward, and what the public thinks counts as evidence. In this episode, Joy Moore and Kent A

We Humans Have All Those Layers The AI Has Not // Dietmar’s Thoughts

In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer explores a powerful business idea: people have layers, AI does not. We adapt naturally to different situations.

Why Vibe Coding Enhances Productivity - And Why Naga Santosh Wrote A Whole Book About It. // REPOST

🚀 In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer speaks with Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri (aka Sunny), a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft

Stop Chasing Sovereign Models, Start Building AI Advantage // Dietmar's Opinion

In this episode, Dietmar Fischer asks a question that sounds political at first, but quickly becomes a business decision: should you use the best AI model available, or t

Reward Hacking: Your AI Isn't Broken, But Your Brief Is.

How AI systems learn to satisfy the number you wrote down while quietly abandoning the goal you actually had, and why that failure is a specification problem rather than