The AI Debate Is Full of Fake Agreement
Is "PhD-level AI" even a thing? Is "sycophantic" AI dangerous? And are the AI labs close to achieving "recursive self-improvement"?
I'm an AI engineer. I build advanced AI systems for clients across VC, media, education, finance, and energy.
- I'm Head of AI to Alex Epstein, and I run my own studio, TW Consulting.
- I advise engineering teams and help them make their AIs production-ready, and I run audits of AI and machine-learning systems.
- I have a degree in Computer Science.
- I previously founded and sold a startup, EventIgnite.
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Production AI systems I've built for clients across VC, media, education, finance, and energy.
AlexAI Pro
The world's most powerful energy AI. It combines frontier-model reasoning with Alex Epstein's method of thinking to generate talking points, op-eds, policy proposals, lobbying plans, and news analysis from an energy-freedom perspective.
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AlexAI
A free public AI that answers questions on energy, climate, and the environment, based on Alex Epstein's work: his books, articles, speeches, and podcasts.
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Energenius
An AI news engine for energy and climate. It finds, ranks, and de-duplicates the day's news, tracks federal energy legislation, and writes summaries and commentary.
AmeshAI
An AI built on the work of Dr. Amesh Adalja, a Johns Hopkins physician and biosecurity expert. It puts his analysis of infectious disease, vaccines, and pandemic preparedness on demand, grounded in his own papers, articles, and talks.
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NCEA AI
A research agent built into the website of the National Center for Energy Analytics. It lets anyone search the institute's energy research and get answers grounded in their work.
BlumbergAI
An AI deal-screening agent for Blumberg Capital, an early-stage VC firm. It reads incoming pitch decks in any format, scores them against the firm's investment criteria, and syncs to their CRM.
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I advise in-house engineering teams building their own AI, whether you're starting from a prototype or pushing an existing system to production. I help with evaluations that measure the outcomes you care about, model choice, retrieval quality, grounding the system in your own knowledge, and making it reliable. If your team is building something serious and wants experienced help, get in touch.
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