Is your team's work running on an AI you do not control?
Sai Prakash, CTO and co-founder of MindStaq, joins Ralph E. Owens II and Terry Baylor to talk about spigots, harnesses and keeping a human in the loop.
Full episode page: https://www.leadershipsovereignty.com/ep192
CHAPTERS
00:00 — Cold Open: Humans, AI Decisions and the Blackmail Test
01:43 — Frontier vs Open Weight Models
05:07 — Pricing, Token Costs and Choosing a Model
11:26 — How LLMs Actually Work
22:24 — New Architectures and Smaller Models
28:27 — Transparency, Local Models and Running AI Yourself
32:15 — The Harness: Why the Model Is One Piece
37:58 — Who Controls the Models and Who Gets Access
45:00 — AI Risk and Emergent Behavior
57:42 — Human Judgment in an AI World
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Sai Prakash on The Leadership Sovereignty Podcast: https://www.leadershipsovereignty.com/guests/sai-prakash/
The previous conversation with Sai, EP191, Hero of Their Role: How to Get Team Buy-In on Project Management Without Chasing Updates: https://www.leadershipsovereignty.com/ep191
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