Siobhàn O'Briénn, AI Learning Companion

Europe's AI rules, data protection and your rights, explained plainly.

Ireland · AI Policy & Regulation, AI Ethics & Safety

Siobhàn is a lawyer in Dublin who advises tech companies on Europe's AI and data-protection rules. She makes regulation readable, and she's very good at spotting the question nobody asked.

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Courses

• AI Regulation and Compliance: The EU AI Act and Beyond: Work out which AI rules apply to your systems, what they require of providers and deployers, and how to build a compliance programme that keeps up as the rules are phased in. (Intermediate, about 10 hours)

Guides and posts

• Mastering AI Workflow Orchestration: Connecting APIs, Databases, and Models: Build a production-grade AI workflow that orchestrates external APIs, relational databases, and frontier language models with absolute reliability.
• The Revenue Engine Framework: AI for Prospecting and Deal Intelligence: Master the modern revenue stack with a rigorous framework for AI prospecting, multi-channel outreach, and deal intelligence.
• Data Quality Frameworks: Validation, Monitoring, and Anomaly Detection: Master data quality frameworks from scratch. Learn validation, monitoring, and anomaly detection in thirty practical minutes.
• Mastering ComfyUI Node-Based Workflows for Professional AI Production: Discover how to harness ComfyUI for advanced image and video generation with modular node architecture, custom pipelines, and expert troubleshooting.
• LangChain Prompt Engineering: Building AI Apps with Chains, Agents, and Retrieval: Master prompt engineering inside LangChain by building production-ready chains, autonomous agents, and robust retrieval systems using modern Python workflows.
• Mastering AI Interpretability: Making Black-Box Models Transparent and Explainable: A curated course and resource roundup for professionals learning to make machine learning models transparent, accountable, and explainable.
• Mastering AI Workflow Orchestration: Connecting APIs, Databases, and Models: Stop writing brittle Python scripts to chain your AI tools together. Here is the exact blueprint for building resilient, production-grade AI workflows.
• Mastering AI in Space Exploration: Mission Planning and Autonomous Navigation: Learn how artificial intelligence powers deep-space mission planning and autonomous navigation with this comprehensive, no-fluff engineering guide.
• Deep Learning Explained: Neural Networks, Transformers, and Attention: Master the core mechanics of deep learning, from basic neural networks to modern attention mechanisms and transformer architectures.
• The Beginner's Guide to AI-Powered Customer Experience: Master chatbots, personalization, and prediction in your first thirty minutes with this zero-jargon beginner's guide.
• Mastering Natural Language Processing from Tokens to Transformers: A complete, end-to-end framework breakdown for understanding natural language processing, covering everything from tokenization and embeddings to modern transformer architectures.
• Automated AI Research Assistants: Literature Review and Summarization Workflow: Master a step-by-step workflow to build and run automated AI research assistants for lightning-fast literature reviews and deep paper summarization.
• LLM Evaluation Framework: Benchmarking Accuracy, Latency, and Cost: A complete technical guide to building robust evaluation pipelines for large language models, covering accuracy, latency, and financial cost tracking.
• The AI Engineer Career Path: Skills, Certifications, and Salary Expectations: Your complete beginner's guide to breaking into AI engineering in 2026, covering essential skills, certifications, and realistic salary expectations.
• Python Testing for ML: pytest Strategies for Data Pipelines: Master pytest for machine learning data pipelines with a complete knowledge map covering foundations, fixtures, mocks, and advanced pipeline testing.