Philosophers Make the Best AI Writers. Here's Why.
Lior Abutbul did not start in machine learning. There was no computer science degree, no early MOOC grind, no Kaggle leaderboard obsession. What there was instead: a deep formation in how ideas travel, how institutions shape behavior, and why most complex systems - political or technological - tend to be misunderstood by the people who talk about them loudest.
That formation came through years of work in policy advocacy and libertarian political philosophy. As National Coordinator for Israel at Students For Liberty, and later as Regional Coordinator for Southeastern Europe, Lior organized conferences, produced documentary films, connected international speakers, and built a Hebrew-language blog called Soulful Capitalism - designed to make free-market ideas feel human rather than algorithmic.
Then came a graduate degree at CEVRO Institute in Prague - philosophy, politics, and economics packed into a single program - and after that, work at Israel's Kohelet Policy Forum, then an advisory role at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and eventually a position at the Ayn Rand Institute as Outreach Coordinator.
All of which sounds like someone building a career in public affairs. And then Lior built SikumAI.
"The event itself was prestigious, it went smoothly with no errors and I am very proud of myself for doing it, and very grateful towards SFL that gave me the tools, practical knowledge and experience to be able to put together such events."
- Lior Abutbul, on organizing one of Israel's largest pro-liberty conferencesSikumAI is a Telegram bot. It takes study documents and converts them into interactive quizzes - automatically, using AI. It is a small thing in the grand scheme of large language models and billion-parameter foundation models. But it is the kind of small thing that reveals a certain mindset: see a real problem, use the tool in front of you, ship something.
That mindset is the engine behind Agentic AI Weekly. The newsletter doesn't exist to prove that AI is impressive. Everyone already knows AI is impressive. It exists to make agentic AI - autonomous systems that plan, reason, and act across multiple steps without constant human input - legible to people who need to use it, understand it, or write about it coherently.
Which is, it turns out, most people working in or around technology right now.