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The Human in the Loop Is a Liability Sponge
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How often have we heard that the human in the loop is the ultimate guardrail? Omnipresent human supervision, isn’t it the ultimate path to safety?
AI Realist Open-Weight AI Learning Program
Open-weight AI is changing the economics of inference, the capabilities of agentic systems and the balance of power between proprietary and openly available models.
But where do you start?
I’ve put together the AI Realist learning resourc...
My Open-Weight AI Setup, and How to Rebuild It
Recording, slides and a seven-step build guide from the Open-Weight AI webinar. Four paths, from a DGX Spark down to no hardware at all. OpenClaw, Codex, Claude Code.
Open-weight models can reduce cost and give a lot of control that cannot...
What You Can Do With Open-Weight AI That OpenAI and Anthropic Won’t Let You
Deploy anywhere, fine-tune, strip the guardrails, copy the model: the four freedoms of open weights, and what they mean for your business.
Open-weight models have gained serious momentum over the past year. As their capabilities grow, they...
Let’s meet at AI Week Frankfurt — 4 free tickets for AI Realist subscribers
On 28 October 2026, I’ll be speaking at AI Week Frankfurt about agentic AI and the real value it can deliver — and I’d love to meet some of you there.
As a speaker, I’ve received four complimentary tickets, and I’d like to share them with...
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