"A Beginner's Guide to AI" makes the complex world of Artificial Intelligence accessible to all. Each episode either asks someone working with AI about what they do and how AI can help you or it explains an important concept/idea. Ideal for novices, tech enthusiasts, and the simply curious, this podcast transforms AI learning into an engaging, digestible journey. Join us and learn everything you need to know on how to use AI in the best way 🚀🎙️ About The Host, Dietmar FischerDietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your...
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Sep 29, 2026 · 48:42
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 human…
Sep 27, 2026 · 11:01
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 Dietmar…
Sep 25, 2026 · 30:57
👁️ 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 camera may…
Sep 23, 2026 · 58:35
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 of Above,…
Sep 21, 2026 · 50:44
🤖 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 with…
Sep 19, 2026 · 38:34
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 science…
Sep 17, 2026 · 9:45
A walking essay through historical catastrophes, industrialization, AI 2027, and the possibility of human extinction. 🌍 Humanity has endured epidemics, environmental…
Sep 14, 2026 · 48:29
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…
Sep 12, 2026 · 54:28
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 & safety leader…
Sep 10, 2026 · 30:41
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 existing…
Sep 8, 2026 · 11:05
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 that…
Sep 6, 2026 · 56:53
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…
Sep 4, 2026 · 23:01
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, the idea…
Sep 2, 2026 · 9:46
Why Nvidia May Pay $12.9 Billion to Keep AI Open Why would Nvidia reportedly pay $12.9 billion for Hugging Face, a company with approximately $150 million in annualized revenue?…
Aug 31, 2026 · 59:56
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 behind…
Aug 29, 2026 · 50:01
🚀 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 explains…
Aug 27, 2026 · 49:08
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 the…
Aug 25, 2026 · 12:53
Why AI Agents Aren’t Ready for Business Why autonomous AI still struggles with reliability, cost, security, and practical business value. 🤖 AI agents have been presented as the…
Aug 22, 2026 · 41:19
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. In the…
Aug 20, 2026 · 49:30
👔🤖 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 sizes,…
Aug 18, 2026 · 51:28
🤖 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 Leader ,…
Aug 16, 2026 · 36:12
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 their new…
Aug 14, 2026 · 52:19
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 and…
Aug 12, 2026 · 49:34
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 Anderson…
Aug 9, 2026 · 6:28
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. We…
Aug 7, 2026 · 55:41
🚀 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 working…
Aug 5, 2026 · 14:51
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 the model…
Aug 3, 2026 · 33:42
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 a…
Aug 1, 2026 · 13:12
📧💌📧 Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don’t forget to subscribe to our Newsletter: beginnersguideto.ai 📧💌📧 In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar…
Jul 30, 2026 · 47:27
AI Leadership for the Agent Era: Building Hybrid Organizations with Dominic von Proeck AI is entering its operational phase. In this episode, Dominic von Proeck, Co-Founder of…
Jul 28, 2026 · 29:01
🤖 Artificial intelligence has been fighting a quiet civil war for over seventy years, and most people using AI tools every day have no idea it's even happening. In this episode…
Jul 26, 2026 · 14:05
AI hype is giving way to AI skepticism, and that shift is already affecting how businesses communicate, hire, and build trust. In this episode, Dietmar Fischer explores why AI is…
Jul 24, 2026 · 23:39
In this episode of Beginner's Guide to AI, we look at one of the most important strategic questions in the AI era: what actually makes a business defensible? The old moat logic…
Jul 22, 2026 · 56:20
AI and human decision-making are becoming inseparable, but the greatest danger may not be job replacement. It may be the gradual loss of our ability to think, choose, and…
Jul 20, 2026 · 32:31
Why Human Oversight in AI Isn’t Enough What happens when an AI system sounds more certain than you feel? Automation bias describes our tendency to trust automated recommendations…
Jul 18, 2026 · 8:54
AI agents can conduct research, analyze interviews, retrieve documents, call tools, and complete complex workflows with limited human involvement. But every prompt, response,…
Jul 16, 2026 · 46:31
AI Agents Are Redefining Knowledge Work. Are You Ready? Most businesses are still using AI to save time. Bryan McAnulty believes that's already the wrong mindset. In this episode…
Jul 14, 2026 · 51:43
Generative AI trust is becoming one of the biggest leadership challenges in business. In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI , Dietmar Fischer speaks with Alice Sesay Pope,…
Jul 12, 2026 · 31:31
🎙️ The Hidden Cost of AI Productivity | Why AI Literacy Will Become Your Biggest Competitive Advantage Artificial intelligence is making us more productive than ever before. We…
Jul 10, 2026 · 13:05
🚨 AI didn't kill my first business. It killed the reason people had to visit it. For years, I ran a successful travel blog about Cuba. Like millions of creators, bloggers and…
Jul 7, 2026 · 51:15
Why AI Transformation Is Mostly Not About Technology AI transformation is not really about technology. It is about mindset, leadership, and the ability of organizations to change…
Jul 5, 2026 · 11:52
🤖 When Governments Can Switch Off AI: The New Risk for Business AI is becoming business infrastructure, but most companies still treat it like a simple software subscription.…
Jul 3, 2026 · 47:11
AI adoption is not only a technology shift, it is a leadership and culture shift. In this episode, Dietmar Fischer talks with Bala Muthiah about AI leadership, the psychology…
Jul 1, 2026 · 33:43
🤖🧠💻 Could reality itself be software? What if The Matrix wasn't just brilliant science fiction, but a serious philosophical possibility? In this episode of A Beginner's Guide…
Jun 29, 2026 · 57:08
Artificial Intelligence is getting smarter every month. Models can pass exams, write code, summarize documents, and even outperform humans in specific tasks. Yet according to…
Jun 28, 2026 · 11:27
🤖 AI or Not AI: Why Businesses Cannot Ignore AI Without Losing Their Edge AI is no longer a futuristic question for businesses. It is already part of how companies write,…
Jun 26, 2026 · 54:05
🤖🧠 Thinking with Machines with Vasant Dhar What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts becoming a collaborator and an agent? In this episode, NYU Stern professor and AI…
Jun 24, 2026 · 57:34
AI is not just a technology. It is a socio-technical tool. Artificial intelligence is becoming one of the defining technologies of our time. Yet understanding AI is no longer…
Jun 22, 2026 · 55:33
🎙️ Why AI Could Make Smart Teams Dangerously Alike Artificial intelligence is changing how we work, think, and make decisions. But what if the biggest risk isn't that AI becomes…
Jun 21, 2026 · 51:29
🤖🧠 AI is making strategy cheap. Adoption is still expensive. In this episode, Dietmar Fischer sits down with Bud Caddell (NOBL) to unpack what leaders miss when they roll out…
Jun 17, 2026 · 33:27
Artificial intelligence is no longer just changing business. It is changing warfare. In this episode of A Beginner's Guide to AI, we explore how militaries around the world are…
Jun 15, 2026 · 44:59
AI is entering meetings, strategy sessions, writing workflows, leadership decisions, and difficult conversations. But what if AI does not automatically make teams smarter? What…
Jun 12, 2026 · 54:32
🎙️ In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with Samantha Mehta, solutions engineering leader at AIRIA , about how companies can adopt AI without losing…
Jun 10, 2026 · 50:39
⚡ Why AI’s Biggest Bottleneck Is Not Software Artificial intelligence may look like software, but behind every prompt, chatbot, and AI agent sits a physical world of power, land,…
Jun 7, 2026 · 46:46
🤖📚 The Robot Followed the Rules. That Was the Problem. What if the real danger of AI is not that it disobeys us, but that it obeys us too well? In this episode of A Beginner’s…
Jun 6, 2026 · 50:16
🚀 In this episode, Dietmar Fischer talks with Janet Barker-Evans about what happens when AI stops being a novelty and becomes part of a serious creative workflow. Janet breaks…
Jun 4, 2026 · 10:31
Many companies believe they are adopting AI successfully because employees use ChatGPT every day. But are they actually creating business value? In this solo episode, Dietmar…
Jun 2, 2026 · 49:48
The Hidden AI Bottleneck Inside Every Business Most companies think their AI problem is about tools. Should they use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, or build their own agents?…
May 31, 2026 · 37:44
The word “robot” sounds modern, metallic, and futuristic. But its origin is older, stranger, and much more human. In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI , we trace the word…
May 30, 2026 · 45:41
In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, host Dietmar Fischer speaks with Michael Housman, AI leader, econometrician, and author of the upcoming book Future Proof. Together,…
May 27, 2026 · 46:35
Most of us already collect health data every day through smartphones, smartwatches, rings, apps, lab reports, and medical visits. But collecting data is not the same as…
May 25, 2026 · 38:59
AI assistants are getting smarter, but intelligence alone is not enough. In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI , we look at one of the most important shifts in agentic AI:…
May 23, 2026 · 29:22
🤖🧠⚠️ What if the biggest AI risk is not that machines become evil, but that they become powerful, strategic, and completely indifferent? In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide…
May 21, 2026 · 23:20
What can a silent film from 1927 teach us about artificial intelligence, deepfakes, and the future of business trust? In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI , we look at…
May 19, 2026 · 1:01:28
Humayun Sheikh on the Agentic Web, Trust, and the Agentic Economy Humayun Sheikh joins Dietmar Fischer to explain what happens when AI stops recommending and starts doing. We…
May 17, 2026 · 36:08
🧠🤖 Stop Using AI Just for Content. Start Using It for Discovery Most businesses still treat AI like a faster writing assistant: useful for summaries, captions, reports, and…
May 15, 2026 · 48:21
AI agents are rapidly becoming one of the most influential technologies inside modern organizations — often without leaders even realizing the shift. In this episode, Dietmar…
May 13, 2026 · 52:00
What happens to leadership when AI can analyze faster, structure better, and answer almost anything in seconds? In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI , Dietmar Fischer speaks…
May 11, 2026 · 46:57
AI search is changing how customers discover, evaluate and choose brands. In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI , Dietmar Fischer speaks with Joseph Levi , CEO of Noise Media…
May 10, 2026 · 37:48
Stop Thinking of AI as a Content Machine, Start Seeing It as a Bargain Machine AI is not just changing how businesses write content, automate tasks, or analyse data. It is…
May 9, 2026 · 1:02:08
In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, we sit down with Alex Kihm, founder of POMA AI, to explore how enterprises can finally make sense of their data. AI search is broken,…
May 7, 2026 · 28:39
AGI Is Not Just a Better Chatbot Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, may be one of the most important ideas in artificial intelligence, but it is also one of the easiest to…
May 5, 2026 · 30:03
AI can write, generate images, suggest chess moves, edit photos, draft campaigns, and produce more content than most teams can handle. So what is left for humans? In this episode…
May 3, 2026 · 28:50
AI feels human. That’s the problem. In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI , Dietmar Fischer breaks down one of the most misunderstood aspects of artificial intelligence:…
Apr 29, 2026 · 47:10
Ever wished you could clone yourself to get more done? Julian Goldie actually did it — and built a content empire out of it. In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI , host…
Apr 26, 2026 · 47:23
🎙️ He Taught AI How to Have Manners — Meet David Petrou of Continua AI What if your next group chat had an extra participant — one that listens, understands the social context,…
Apr 24, 2026 · 54:18
What happens when AI does not just advise you, but lives inside your brain In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer talks with science fiction author Richard…
Apr 22, 2026 · 48:21
Artificial Intelligence isn’t just reshaping technology — it is reshaping leadership. In this episode, former Google strategist Louisa Loran joins Dietmar Fischer to explore how…
Apr 18, 2026 · 48:32
In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI , host Dietmar Fischer talks with Roman Chernin from Nebius , about how AI democratization is reshaping the enterprise world. Roman…
Apr 16, 2026 · 57:38
🚀 The Hidden Cost of AI: Losing Meaning, Not Jobs AI is not just automating work. It is challenging the very foundation of human identity. In this episode, Derek Rydall breaks…
Apr 14, 2026 · 54:46
🎙️ Machine Ethics Podcast x Beginner's Guide to AI AI is everywhere. But almost nobody agrees on what it actually is. In this episode, Ben Byford from the Machine Ethics Podcast…
Apr 11, 2026 · 16:28
What does the Catholic Church actually think about artificial intelligence? A lot more than you might expect. In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI , Prof. GepHardT…
Apr 9, 2026 · 49:29
Artificial intelligence can generate answers fast, but can it generate knowledge you can trust? In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI , Dietmar Fischer talks with Jonathan…
Apr 7, 2026 · 48:11
AI is no longer just a chatbot that helps you write emails faster. In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer sits down with Ethan Ouyang to explore how agentic…
Apr 5, 2026 · 44:30
Human-Centered AI at Work with Monica Marquez: A Practical Adoption Playbook If you’re still treating AI like a shiny gadget, this episode will be a polite intervention. Monica…
Apr 3, 2026 · 47:47
In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI , Dietmar Fischer talks with Alex Levin , the Co-Founder and CEO of Regal.io , about how Voice AI is bringing real human conversation…
Apr 1, 2026 · 56:10
In this episode, Dietmar Fischer talks with Tallulah Le Merle, a humanist technologist and investor, about how to think clearly in the age of AI without falling into doomsday…
Mar 30, 2026 · 46:29
🎙️ In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer sits down with Torrey Leonard, CEO of Thoughtly, to unpack the real business use case for voice AI agents: follow…
Mar 28, 2026 · 40:37
🎧 What makes us human in the age of AI? This episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI explores one of the most important questions for business leaders today. As AI becomes more…
Mar 26, 2026 · 22:41
If you want to know more about the podcast, about how it's produced, what are the challenges and wins, about some fun facts, a little bit behind-the-scenes, this episode is for…
Mar 24, 2026 · 27:47
Your AI might not be hacked. It might be persuaded. In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, we unpack one of the most underestimated threats in modern business: prompt…
Mar 22, 2026 · 39:16
Artificial intelligence is often framed as a battle between humans and machines. But what if that story misses the real point? In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, Prof.…
Mar 20, 2026 · 53:44
What happens when your company gets hit by a cyberattack? In this eye-opening episode, attorney Joshua Cook reveals why cybersecurity isn’t an IT problem but a leadership…
Mar 18, 2026 · 53:33
🎙️In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI, Dietmar Fischer sits down with Paul A. Hebert, founder of AI Recovery Collective and author of Escaping the Spiral , for a serious…
Mar 15, 2026 · 29:21
Artificial intelligence often feels mysterious. Machines detect spam, recommend products, analyse customers, and power countless digital tools. But behind all of these systems…
Mar 13, 2026 · 47:35
Engineering the Future of AI with Chirag Agrawal: Context, Memory and Coordination Artificial Intelligence isn’t just getting smarter—it’s learning to coordinate. In this…
Mar 11, 2026 · 51:26
Artificial Intelligence is moving from experimentation to everyday business reality. But most organisations still struggle with one key question: How do you actually implement AI…
Mar 9, 2026 · 48:35
🎙️ Ritish Chugh (Airbnb analytics engineering) joins Dietmar Fischer to unpack a problem almost every company has, but few name clearly: your metrics do not mean the same thing…
Mar 7, 2026 · 41:32
The Future of Mental Health: AI Meets the Human Brain with Katarina Maloney // REPOST In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI , Dietmar Fischer speaks with Katarina Maloney ,…
Mar 5, 2026 · 49:31
In this episode of Beginner’s Guide to AI , Wendy Keir shares practical ways small business owners can use AI tools to save time, reduce decision fatigue, and build a “team” of…
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