Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedBrendan Foody: belief
7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
“I think that while evals are the thing that everyone’s talking about in Silicon Valley and the AI labs, it feels like most people in the rest of the country couldn’t quite describe exactly why you need an eval.”
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- Brendan Foody
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- belief
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- 7 Jan 2026
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…It would improve science, right? It would improve science. I think maybe two things. One is awareness of this. I think that while evals are the thing that everyone’s talking about in Silicon Valley and the AI labs, it feels like most people in the rest of the country couldn’t quite describe exactly why you need an eval. I think the second is a little bit of fear, where everyone worries about how is AI going to impact their jobs, their work, their ability to contribute to the economy, and be meaningful. I think that that’s always top of mind, even for nonprofit organizations that want to contribute and preach this world of abundance. Let’s say we took the live economics or legal, whatever seminars — let’s say the top 10, top 20 schools — recorded them all, somehow anonymized the data, but you had the comments in transcript, and sent that to you. Would that be useful?…
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