Tom Roderick, PhD
Founder & Chief AI Officer, Flamelit
Affiliate Faculty, Raymond A. Mason School of Business, William & Mary
A social scientist embedded in the tech world. Writing on applied machine learning, causal inference, and the governance of systems that actually have to work.
Find the signal. Prove the value. Ship it.
EducationPhD Economics, University of Texas at Austin
AffiliationAffiliate Faculty, Raymond A. Mason School of Business, William & Mary
VenuesISR · INFORMS JoC · NEJM Catalyst · DESRIST
Recent writing
- Obsessing over AI agent harnesses
Obsessing over AI agent harnesses - or, the uphill battle agents face
- All things are systems - the Idlewild Acres case
A qualitative case study of how sociotechnical system design results in vulnerable populations
- Abbott's Systems of Professions
Reasoning on how AI will impact labor markets
- Domain AI
Why Applications of AI are a fruitful field
- Where the AI market will be won
Thought on the market upheavals from AI.