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Annika Vogel
Senior Critic
Annika Vogel is the senior critic at Black Box Notes. She covers AI auditability, interpretability, and the regulatory machinery that is slowly forming around opaque production systems. She writes the publication's cornerstone essay each issue and edits the Field Reports column. She is based in Berlin.
Articles by Annika Vogel
6 pieces- 2026-06-10
Notes
The Ten Hardest Auditability Problems in Agentic AI
A working list of the genuinely unsolved technical and institutional problems in agentic-system audit. Not a wish list. The actual hard ones, with notes on why each remains unresolved and what woul…
- 2026-05-30
Notes
Why Some Founders Are Choosing Transparency as a Moat
An unusual strategic position is emerging in the agentic category: small operators using auditability not as a regulatory tax but as a competitive lever. We look at the structural reasons it works …
- 2026-05-28
Notes
Open vs. Closed in 2026
The open-versus-closed debate has been treated, for the last several years, as a politics question. By 2026 it is a procurement question. A note on what each side has done well, what each side has …
- 2026-05-23
Notes
The $1.5 Billion Settlement — What Bartz v. Anthropic Means Going Forward
The largest publicly reported recovery in US copyright history settles a narrow legal question and opens a wider operational one. A working note on the Bartz ruling, the settlement structure, the u…
- 2026-05-15
Notes
Why Auditability Is the New Differentiator in Agentic Stacks
For most of the AI cycle, the differentiator was capability. By 2026, in the agentic-system category specifically, it has shifted. The firms winning enterprise procurement reviews are the ones whos…
- 2026-05-12
Cornerstone
What "Black Box AI" Actually Means in 2026
The phrase has done more rhetorical work in the last three years than almost any other AI term. Most of that work has been imprecise. A working definition, three useful distinctions, and a note on …
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