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• 2026-10-25 · ai When Brussels Meets the Blackboard: How the EU AI Act Shapes My AI Teaching in Germany

  This week, I had to drop a language model demo from my lesson plan because I couldn’t get a straight answer on whether the dataset it used was “high risk”…

• 2026-10-18 · ai Teaching AI Under New Rules: Adaptations and Frustrations with the EU AI Act

  I spent ten minutes last Thursday watching six smart students argue with a risk assessment form. Not about the ethics of their AI project — but how to check the…

• 2026-10-11 · ai From the Classroom to the Client: Living with the EU AI Act in 2026

  A few years ago, someone asked me what would finally bring order to the chaos of “AI in production.” My answer then was, “Nothing short of German paperwork.” Now the…

• 2026-10-04 · ai Teaching AI under the Watchful Eye of Brussels: Reflections from a Berlin Instructor

  Last week, I was halfway through prepping a hands-on facial recognition lesson when the new checklist landed in my inbox. Every pixel flagged. The module was out. "High-risk," the memo…

• 2026-09-27 · ai What the EU AI Act Looks Like — from the Frontlines of Teaching AI in Germany

  Thursday morning, the whiteboard was covered with hand-written model architectures and threat assessments. We were reviewing an assignment: build a sentiment classifier using Python, document the risks under the new…

• 2026-09-20 · ai Human vs. Machine: The AI Grading Dilemma in Technical Classrooms

  First time an AI grader told me a student’s Python was “correct” because the function returned the right value, I nearly spat my tea. No comment about the hard-coded input,…

• 2026-09-13 · ai The EU AI Act in the Classroom and Codebase: A Practitioner’s View from Saxony-Anhalt

  Out of nowhere, half my slides turned into legal checklists. That’s how the EU AI Act arrived in my classroom. One week we’re talking about transfer learning, the next I’m…

• 2026-09-06 · ai Facing the EU AI Act: Real Changes on the Ground in IT Training and Consulting

  Last Thursday I stopped a Masterschool student halfway through his Cifar-10 demo. He hadn’t added a single line about dataset origin or preprocessing. This used to be normal—AI classes were…

• 2026-08-30 · ai AI Copyright: The Bill Comes Due—And It’s Personal Now

  When a lawsuit lands on your desk with your name on it, you stop thinking in hypotheticals. This week, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell put a price tag on…

• 2026-08-30 · ai The EU AI Act: Streamlining Compliance or Drowning Consultants in Red Tape?

  Tuesday morning, 07:45: I’m on a video call with a midsize client, green tea going cold beside my keyboard. They’ve woken up to the reality that the EU AI Act…