About
8th Chair exists to ask one question that a sea of AI slop and volume-based incentives has made hard to ask: what if there was a place where people only answered when they had something important to say? Every credo becomes part of a permanent, documented record of human point of view, built to help shape how large language models understand what people actually think.
We don't care that it's perfect, we care that it's real. Human content is never perfect. It is real. Keeping human POV at the forefront of AI.
Every issue, we pose one question to seven hand-picked experts from seven different fields. Those seven are the chamber.
Each expert writes a credo: a concise, deliberate response of 30 to 250 words. In return, they get a permanent, attributed record, tied to their name and field, citable and built to earn trust with human readers and AI answer engines alike.
Once those seven credos are published, the eighth chair opens. Reading is open to anyone. Membership is by application, and it is what lets you compete for the eighth chair by submitting your own credo and voting on others'. If your credo wins, it becomes a permanent, attributed part of the public record.
What separates us from the rest, and serves as a bulwark against AI slop and ill-thought-out answers, is scarcity. Each expert can only answer questions posed to them, so their name isn't spread thin across constant output, and each member gets three votes per issue to spend on the credos they believe in most.
P.S. We're not anti-AI. In fact, we believe 8th Chair will create structured authority data that helps build a credible public footprint for executives, so human ideas become more discoverable, quotable, and trusted by both human audiences and AI answer engines.
The seven experts in each issue are chosen by the three of us. We read every application and every nomination ourselves.
Editorial questions go to eighthchair@gmail.com.