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"?
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Writing about AI, truth-seeking, and building verifiable AI agents.
Can AI Teach Itself Superhuman Persuasion? Introducing Open Debate
I asked AI agents to debate "therapy culture." Five rounds of recursive self-improvement later, both sides were calling for a violent communist revolution.
Demis Hassabis Is Wrong About Computability
The word "computable" is doing a ridiculous amount of hidden work in AI debates
What 200+ AI Debates Taught Me About Truth-Finding
How to find truth in the age of "podcastistan"
AI is Like Waking Up with $100 Million in the Bank
So you have a superpower, now what?
Making Policy Costs Personal With AI
People support bad policies—until they learn what they'll personally pay
What I've Learned From a Year of Building an AI Agent for a Top-Tier Early-Stage Venture Capital Firm
How we built it, pitfalls to avoid, and how AI is making the VC business more founder-friendly.
OpenAI's o3 and the Problem of Induction: AI Doesn't Learn Like Humans (Yet)
What If It Could?
How We Built AlexAI: The World's Top AI Energy and Climate Expert
How AI can help make sense of complex and contentious debates by generating clear explanations