A professional multitasker at the intersection of AI, governance, risk, audit, academia, entrepreneurship, and the occasional controlled chaos, bringing 30+ years of experience to make technology more trusted, fair, and accountable.
finops-ai, agentic-ai, ai-cost-management, token-spend, ai-governance
Most agentic AI programs obsess over token spend while ignoring six other cost categories that never appear on a single invoice. This FinOps AI framework names all seven costs, their hiding places, and the budget owners responsible for each.
ai-web-search, search-filtering, algorithmic-transparency, digital-services-act, ai-regulation, ftc-deceptive-practices
Six policy documents from two major AI platforms contain zero disclosures about search result filtering. Legal analysis across the US, EU, and Brazil finds the practice likely violates transparency obligations in two of three jurisdictions.
ai-roi, enterprise-ai, ai-agents, ai-cost-management, token-optimization, finops
Enterprises averaged $11.5 million in AI spending in 2026, yet most cannot demonstrate a clear return. A shift from chatbots to autonomous agents is inflating per-task costs 30x and driving token usage toward a projected 24-fold surge that outpaces provider price cuts.
shadow-ai, ai-governance, enterprise-ai, ai-risk, ai-policy, shadow-it
81% of digital trust professionals say employees already use unapproved AI tools at work. This guide breaks down the real risks of Shadow AI and the governance steps every leader needs to take now.
ai-search, search-bias, community-content, ai-filtering, reddit, developer-tools
Analysis of 55 unfiltered search results found that 22 came from human communities like Reddit, Quora, and GitHub. Proprietary AI search filters cut that number to between 2 and 4, keeping only corporate pages selling products tied to the query.
ai-search, search-filtering, searxng, web-search, ai-tools
AI tools advertising 'web search' actually route queries through proprietary filtering APIs that silently decide what you can find. A reproducible three-query test found an unfiltered SearXNG instance returning 55 links versus 28 and 10 from two major AI search backends.
ludismo, modern-luddism, anti-ai-bias, generative-ai, ai-criticism, content-evaluation
When a genuine Monet painting was mislabeled as AI art, critics panned it as soulless. The episode is a case study in modern Luddism: reflexive anti-AI bias that overrides honest evaluation of content.
about-aipster, community
How six computer science friends from the late '90s turned a happy hour chat into a collective exploration of artificial intelligence — and why we decided to share what we learn along the way. It started, as many good things do, with a simple question: "Can everyone make it