People in AI

Author arguing AGI is an engineering problem requiring systems orchestration rather than just model scaling.

Arrested in March for allegedly funneling $2.5 billion in restricted AI servers to China since 2024.

Inventor who received a patent for the coin-operated telephone in 1889 and formed a company to market the invention.

Historical example of an amateur scientist (composer/organist) who discovered Uranus

Co-founder of Sunrise climate movement who won Michigan Democratic primary as progressive candidate opposing data centers.

Wouter van Doorn

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Mathematics Enthusiast at Customer Service Company

Fourth-most prolific commenter on Erdős problems website who collaborates with AI and professional mathematicians to solve problems.

Praised Nvidia-Hugging Face deal as vote of confidence in open AI, suggesting it could encourage competition and startup access.

Documented his experience as a visual annotation data worker in Syria, highlighting poor task definitions and client demands.

Former Reddit CEO who explained differences between views on superintelligence extinction and other AI risks.

Suggested Alpha School success comes from lacking self-imposed downsides rather than proactive genius.

Zeeshan Shah

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BCG

Co-author of guide on governing AI agents at scale in enterprises.

Fraudster behind the UK's largest cryptocurrency seizure who used Bitcoin for money laundering.