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Tyler Cowen: belief

7 Jan 2026 Conversations with Tyler Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work

“You’ve had a recent project lately. You hired Larry Summers, I believe, for finance and economics.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
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belief
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7 Jan 2026
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Conversations with Tyler

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…We often are. We do a lot of this. It’s where we’ll have the humans create a rubric or some eval to measure success, and then have the models say their perspective. You actually can get a little bit of signal from that, especially if you have an expert — we have tens of thousands of people that are working on our platform at any given time. Oftentimes, there’ll be someone that is tired or not putting a lot of effort into their work, and the models are able to help us with catching that. You’ve had a recent project lately. You hired Larry Summers, I believe, for finance and economics. That was a little bit of a unique deal.…

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