https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/fb772cd0-8a15-4621-9866-783aa62e6063 Every other personal AI demo has agents sending emails and managing calendars. I built the opposite: a read-only system that queries my data sources (email, journal, tasks, CRM, browser sessions, notes) but can't modify any of them. This is an intentional limitation. I'll cover why trust asymmetry matters (read is safe, write is dangerous), how cross-source pattern detection beats task automation, and why ""exhaust fume analysis"" of one's cognition is more valuable than yet another AI assistant trying to act on your behalf. Šimon Podhajský - Head of AI, Waypoint AI I'm Head of AI at Waypoint and a full-stack builder with a background in data science and data engineering. I built this personal AI system to scratch my own itch -- and discovered that the ""read-only"" constraint led to better architecture than the agent-first approaches I see everywhere. I made a Github repo with a template for people to try out the read-only AI / personal intelligence system: https://github.com/shippy/personal-intelligence-kit Socials: https://linkedin.com/in/simonpodhajsky https://x.com/sim_pod https://simon.podhajsky.net Slides: https://slides.podhajsky.net/read-only-ai Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:00:30 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.ut0pia.org https://video.ut0pia.org/lazy-static/avatars/0287a09a-aae7-4840-9843-b416426e7046.webp https://video.ut0pia.org/videos/watch/fb772cd0-8a15-4621-9866-783aa62e6063 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.ut0pia.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.