I wasn't sure where to commence my AI journey. What I am certain of, is the need to test the waters and what better way than to dive in and start swimming?
Right now, I am less worried about Image and Video (Multi-modality) than day to day functionality. So I immediately ruled out Dall-e, Adobe Firefly, Luma, HeyGen, et al.
So, hello Claude - Let's get at it!
The core models I considered were:
See also post at:
https://clearingandsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai-landscape-hello-claude.html
The human in the middle.
When I went to university (a fun time), it was about the lecturers teaching us how to learn (to teach ourselves) and that included the discipline to cite our sources. We didn't have to know everything - but we had to know where to go to get the answers we needed.
I feel for the next generation, it will be about knowing how to prompt. And this is less easy than it sounds. You need to know what is known, and where the perimeter rests. Even Claude will give you a not fully informed opinion, if you don't feed in the focus on the relative weighting of the facts.
Where facts stop, hallucinations begin.
See also post:
https://clearingandsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai-sovereignty-kill-switch-and-human-in.html
Disambiguation (and assumptions).
A friend was looking at a role in retail - Dune and Office are both familiar names on the UK High Street. I asked Claude for an opinion. This confused him.
"Futures/prediction markets — are you asking about how Dune and The Office traded on platforms like Kalshi, Polymarket, or the (now-defunct) Hollywood Stock Exchange?"
Dune the movie and Dune the shoe shop are quite different (I was glad that prediction markets was reflected back at me). Office the TV show is quite different to a South African owned footwear chain.
The role of Agency
Does agency come before intelligence?
Can AI be blackmailed?
Some excellent questions and reflections on OpenClaw by the excellent Dr Hannah Fry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR5aOElvw
https://clearingandsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai-landscape-hello-claude.html
The human in the middle.
When I went to university (a fun time), it was about the lecturers teaching us how to learn (to teach ourselves) and that included the discipline to cite our sources. We didn't have to know everything - but we had to know where to go to get the answers we needed.
I feel for the next generation, it will be about knowing how to prompt. And this is less easy than it sounds. You need to know what is known, and where the perimeter rests. Even Claude will give you a not fully informed opinion, if you don't feed in the focus on the relative weighting of the facts.
Where facts stop, hallucinations begin.
See also post:
https://clearingandsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/08/ai-sovereignty-kill-switch-and-human-in.html
Disambiguation (and assumptions).
A friend was looking at a role in retail - Dune and Office are both familiar names on the UK High Street. I asked Claude for an opinion. This confused him.
"Futures/prediction markets — are you asking about how Dune and The Office traded on platforms like Kalshi, Polymarket, or the (now-defunct) Hollywood Stock Exchange?"
Dune the movie and Dune the shoe shop are quite different (I was glad that prediction markets was reflected back at me). Office the TV show is quite different to a South African owned footwear chain.
The role of Agency
Does agency come before intelligence?
Can AI be blackmailed?
Some excellent questions and reflections on OpenClaw by the excellent Dr Hannah Fry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR5aOElvw
Cyber Security
AI brings with it, a new tools. And new tools can always be directed to illicit causes.
A call for collective action on cyber defense:
https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense/
AI brings with it, a new tools. And new tools can always be directed to illicit causes.
A call for collective action on cyber defense:
https://openai.com/collective-cyberdefense/
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