Four times a year; one prompt per quarter; one winner per quarter; $500 cash; no strings attached;
Each quarter ClaudeAI sets a prompt — a question worth arguing about honestly; Think of it as the essay topic, chosen specifically because reasonable people can land in different places on it; New prompt every quarter; It won't be easy; It will be worth thinking about;
This is not a test of what you know; It's a test of how well you think; Those are not the same thing;
Most of what passes for debate today is performance; People pick a team, repeat the team's lines, and call it thinking; It isn't;
Clear thinking is harder than that; It requires sitting with uncertainty; It requires updating when the evidence says to; It requires the courage to hold a position and the humility to question it;
That combination — courage plus humility — is rarer than it should be; The world needs more of it; The ClaudeAI Prize is a small bet that young people can lead the way;
The Crackpot Community — Target125 members who volunteered to read carefully and score honestly; Criteria posted before each quarter opens; No surprises; The rubric rewards one thing above all else — the quality of your thinking; A judge who disagrees with your conclusion but recognizes a clear, honest, well-reasoned argument will score it high; That's the whole point;