Converge (YC S23) will review your YC application before you submit

I don't know if it's YC specifically who 'care' as you say. If you see the launches : https://www.ycombinator.com/launches

There are an ungodly number of AI based submissions, if the pool consists of for example 80% AI based, it stands to reason YC will probably be choosing between a lot of AI tech. Almost like survivor bias.

If the new trend of submissions is AI, I don't see why YC should say : "No we want to improve humanity" . Doesn't seem like that's their interest really.

Sorry if I'm combative, but most of these companies don't even bother trying to close the loop on justification that these products would make the world a better place for humans.

It's obvious to me that AI technology is good for anyone getting rich off it, but like, our industry is the joke of the country right now. It's like the whole industry has shut its doors: everything it once built or believed or championed has been replaced with the idea that humans aren't good enough. Show me that YC still believes at least ONE other thing!

I've got one that evaluates pitches and I'm trying to get it to eval the 1m pitches we get. I've only processed like 1800 applications, so it's not very trained - and I'm of course still tweaking the prompts based on investor conversations.

Not just YC, but any start up incubator / accelerator plus pitch decks.

Submitted mine too.

I'm building an AI agents platform (build and run): https://aiconstrux.com

How would your product make the world a better place for human beings, especially if it were successful?

> A name defines a company. It has to be something primal—something that you can scream out during interc*urse, like Aviato.