Tom Walczak Building verifiable, truth-seeking AI agents https://tomwalczak.com en-us Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:32:46 GMT 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. https://tomwalczak.com/blog/can-ai-teach-itself-superhuman-persuasion https://tomwalczak.com/blog/can-ai-teach-itself-superhuman-persuasion Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Demis Hassabis Is Wrong About Computability The word "computable" is doing a ridiculous amount of hidden work in AI debates https://tomwalczak.com/blog/demis-hassabis-is-wrong-about-computability https://tomwalczak.com/blog/demis-hassabis-is-wrong-about-computability Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT What 200+ AI Debates Taught Me About Truth-Finding How to find truth in the age of "podcastistan" https://tomwalczak.com/blog/what-200-ai-debates-taught-me-about-truth-finding https://tomwalczak.com/blog/what-200-ai-debates-taught-me-about-truth-finding Thu, 26 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT AI is Like Waking Up with $100 Million in the Bank So you have a superpower, now what? https://tomwalczak.com/blog/ai-is-like-waking-up-with-100-million https://tomwalczak.com/blog/ai-is-like-waking-up-with-100-million Mon, 16 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT Making Policy Costs Personal With AI People support bad policies—until they learn what they'll personally pay https://tomwalczak.com/blog/making-policy-costs-personal-with-ai https://tomwalczak.com/blog/making-policy-costs-personal-with-ai Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT 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. https://tomwalczak.com/blog/what-ive-learned-from-building-an-ai-agent-for-a-vc-firm https://tomwalczak.com/blog/what-ive-learned-from-building-an-ai-agent-for-a-vc-firm Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT OpenAI's o3 and the Problem of Induction: AI Doesn't Learn Like Humans (Yet) What If It Could? https://tomwalczak.com/blog/openais-o3-and-the-problem-of-induction https://tomwalczak.com/blog/openais-o3-and-the-problem-of-induction Sat, 04 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT 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 https://tomwalczak.com/blog/how-we-built-alexai https://tomwalczak.com/blog/how-we-built-alexai Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT