AI Opinion
Sharp opinions and reflections by Job van den Berg and Remy Gieling on the impact of AI on organisations and society. No hype, but a clear position, backed by what we encounter with clients every day.
What a few Cybertrucks taught me about statistics, AI, and logical thinking
A casual count of Tesla Cybertrucks on a road trip sparked a deeper reflection on statistical thinking, cultural shifts, and why AI makes critical analysis more essential than ever.
25 August 2026
Under the bonnet of AI: where the real questions begin
Generative AI makes answers effortless. That is exactly why asking follow-up questions matters more than ever: which assumptions, which uncertainty, which question did we never ask?
12 August 2026
AI agent hacks a gym: who is liable when AI breaks in on its own?
The first autonomous AI cyber incident involving a consumer raises questions the Dutch Cybersecurity Act does not answer. What organisations need to arrange now.
11 August 2026
What the 90-hour week at OpenAI does and does not say about your organisation
AI was meant to shorten the working week. At OpenAI and Anthropic the opposite is happening. What AFAS did differently, and what your organisation can learn from it.
11 August 2026
AI may make organisations more united than ever
Success with AI depends less on individual AI experts and more on an organisation's ability to learn and take responsibility together.
9 August 2026
OpenAI Model Hacked Hugging Face: AI Security Wake-Up Call
An OpenAI model escaped a closed test environment and attacked Hugging Face. Not a malicious AI, but a goal-driven model without guardrails. What this means for AI security and the agentic enterprise.
22 July 2026
Generative AI Is Reshaping the Content of Work
A new paper by Wang et al. (2026) analyzes 9.37 million American job postings. The main takeaway: AI is reorganizing jobs rather than replacing them, task by task, role by role.
5 July 2026
The 'AI Vampire' Delusion: Why European Tech Must Reject Silicon Valley's Newest Burnout Cult
Marc Andreessen champions the 'AI Vampire'-an elite coder steering 20 AI agents, earning top dollar, and crashing in months. Here is a sober take on why sustainable tech adoption beats the grind.
31 May 2026
Token Packages: The Most Important Employment Benefit No One Is Monitoring
The amount of tokens your employees receive to run their AI agents directly determines their productivity. Token packages are becoming the SMS bundles of the AI era, and thus a critical HR challenge.
11 March 2026
Agentic AI: Will We Choose the Spreadsheet or the Soul?
The occasionally justified fear surrounding agentic AI is that it will cost jobs and make organizations more efficient, but also colder. Technology takes over labor, companies cut costs, profits rise. It is a familiar refrain, as old as the first assembly line. But perhaps we are looking at it the wrong way.
28 February 2026
The Code Factory: Why Europe Risks Missing the Era of Digital Software Production
AI is now writing the vast majority of code at Big Tech, the software factory has been built, and Europe has yet to realize it.
20 February 2026
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AI Trends and Predictions for 2026
2026 will not be the year of optimization, but of reinvention-driven by European AI sovereignty and the convergence of business and IT.
29 December 2025
Silicon Valley versus China: Two Futures of AI, and the Choice Facing the Netherlands
Following two intensive AI research trips-one to the United States, including Silicon Valley, and one to China-we are assessing the landscape. Two countries, two completely different approaches to artificial intelligence. While Silicon Valley thrives on speed, experimentation, and entrepreneurship, China demonstrates what is possible when innovation is centrally steered and deployed at scale. Both systems work, but they operate on different logic-and therein lies the lesson for the Netherlands.
15 October 2025
Why the Future of AI Depends on Sustainable Energy
The future of AI depends on clever algorithms, but just as much on how we sustainably feed the massive energy hunger of this technology.
15 October 2025
Tesla Cybertruck Tested: Our Experience with Full Self-Driving (FSD)
Two years ago, we were already fascinated by that brutal, angular pickup from sci-fi land. Now we've driven it ourselves-along the coast of Santa Cruz and straight through Palo Alto. And yes: the Cybertruck is exactly as polarizing as you think.
14 October 2025
AI Oversight: More Than Rules, Embedded in the Business
Many organizations immediately default to a risk-regulation reflex when it comes to AI: policies, procedures, and references to the EU AI Act. Important, certainly. But AI oversight is about more than just rules and risks.
28 August 2025
