Tim Hwang

“I think it's a field which likes to kind of place before the world a sense of its objectivity and a sense of its science-ness, right? It talks in the language of evals, of code, of papers that are on archive, and at the end of the day, I see some of this as genuinely interesting technical work, but at the end of the da...”

— From Tim Hwang: Redesigning the Tarot, Touring Nuclear Plants, and the Religious Impact of AI, Good Conversation Project (July 23, 2026)

“I actually have a proposal out right now to the Dicastries that are running their commission on AI. And what I humbly submitted to them was that they should invest in compute and they should publish a technical research agenda and they should rally worldwide Catholics against that technical research agenda. If they wan...”

— From Tim Hwang: Redesigning the Tarot, Touring Nuclear Plants, and the Religious Impact of AI, Good Conversation Project (July 23, 2026)

“I think it's wrong to think about what's going on here as merely an act of what you would used to call trust and safety or content moderation or business processes like risk management. You know, that these are not like pure like bloodless analyses that they're actually something very deep and very philosophical going...”

— From Tim Hwang on The Pope's Encyclical, Aquinas on AI Cognition, VirtueBench | MTS Live, MTS (May 27, 2026)

“I think the ambition of ICMI is if I can find alignment results that are empirically at par or better than a secular result. Oh, okay. Then the shoes is on a whole another foot. Then we're having a whole different conversation. And so I think that's the project here is that it really isn't two camps.”

— From Tim Hwang on The Pope's Encyclical, Aquinas on AI Cognition, VirtueBench | MTS Live, MTS (May 27, 2026)

“I think that my game is everybody should get into this. I want to basically make this a total free-for-all. That basically the era of, hey, we can just do airsat's utilitarianism for these models is over. And basically now the labs are going to have to contend with religious groups that can launch their own models, do...”

— From Tim Hwang on The Pope's Encyclical, Aquinas on AI Cognition, VirtueBench | MTS Live, MTS (May 27, 2026)

“I think this is like and actually my alternative theory on this is like, you know, it's I actually don't think at the lab there's anyone being like, haha, we're going to make everybody Buddhists now. There's an alternative interpretation which actually goes back to the B2B SAS you know theory of the universe which is i...”

— From Tim Hwang on The Pope's Encyclical, Aquinas on AI Cognition, VirtueBench | MTS Live, MTS (May 27, 2026)

“I think that one sort of interesting thing you could say, I was joking with a friend recently. I was like, are mixture of expert models kind of Jewish? Like actually, is there part of the idea that lots of agents arguing over or deciding on a solution? Like maybe that's actually a more theologically consistent way of a...”

— From Tim Hwang on The Pope's Encyclical, Aquinas on AI Cognition, VirtueBench | MTS Live, MTS (May 27, 2026)

“You can think of us almost like the Bloomberg terminal for laws and regulations instead of looking up equities and commodities and fixed income and the like. People use our platforms to monitor political updates or legislative updates, regulatory updates from the United States, from the European Commission, from countr...”

— From FiscalNote Retail Investor Fireside Chat at NYSE SHARE Series - April 10 2023, Stockperks (April 10, 2023)

“We service everyone from the Executive Office of the President, the Pentagon, the DoD, every member of the House and the Senate in the United States Congress, the Federal Reserve and hundreds of other civilian agencies.”

— From FiscalNote Retail Investor Fireside Chat at NYSE SHARE Series - April 10 2023, Stockperks (April 10, 2023)

“What is also very clear is that AI helps bad people do bad things more efficiently.”

— From How A Young Politician Created A $100M Tech Giant - Tim Hwang (FiscalNote) l Coffee With Closers, OneIMS - B2B Marketing Strategies (October 30, 2024)

“Fiscal Note was this intersection of technology and politics where we were trying to essentially build the Bloomberg Terminal for Law.”

— From How A Young Politician Created A $100M Tech Giant - Tim Hwang (FiscalNote) l Coffee With Closers, OneIMS - B2B Marketing Strategies (October 30, 2024)

“We collect laws and regulations and court cases from 80 different countries ... we'll go to DOD, FBI, CIA, FedEx, Blue Cross, Blue Shield, Goldman Sachs, Chevron, whatever. And we'll charge you 20,000 a country per year. We have some customers that pay two, three, four million a year to access the world.”

— From How A Young Politician Created A $100M Tech Giant - Tim Hwang (FiscalNote) l Coffee With Closers, OneIMS - B2B Marketing Strategies (October 30, 2024)

“We're fundamentally an AI company ... we use everything from machine translation, categorization, summarization technologies ... and then we'll go out and use generative technologies to be able to generate summaries or reports around what's going on around the world.”

— From How A Young Politician Created A $100M Tech Giant - Tim Hwang (FiscalNote) l Coffee With Closers, OneIMS - B2B Marketing Strategies (October 30, 2024)

“We've also partnered with OpenAI, Google, Bing with Microsoft ... taken our technologies and built out our own language models and the like.”

— From How A Young Politician Created A $100M Tech Giant - Tim Hwang (FiscalNote) l Coffee With Closers, OneIMS - B2B Marketing Strategies (October 30, 2024)

“The government needs to set standards around responsible use of artificial intelligence. It needs to enforce some of the existing laws in our books ... Things like explainability and artificial intelligence are very important for those purposes.”

— From How A Young Politician Created A $100M Tech Giant - Tim Hwang (FiscalNote) l Coffee With Closers, OneIMS - B2B Marketing Strategies (October 30, 2024)