People in AI

John Coogan

Creator

Co-Founder & Host at TBPN

Co-founder and co-host of TBPN tech talk show acquired by OpenAI.

Apple analyst titled assessment 'Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino'

John Hallman

Researcher

Pretraining Researcher at OpenAI

Expressed concern about AI-based feeds when OpenAI released the Sora 2 social media app but supported the team's approach.

CEO of Niantic Spatial who explains that training data from Pokémon Go players solving the same positioning problem helps delivery robots navigate city streets.

Louisiana Republican senator and sole Republican attendee at the AI safety briefing; discussed recursive self-improvement risks and proposed kill switch legislation.

NextEra CEO overseeing acquisition of Dominion Energy in $66.8 billion deal to meet growing data center electricity demand from AI.

Founder and CEO of Vantora describing the shift toward proprietary M&A pipeline and physical AI startups.

Collaborated with Michel Devoret on quantum research in the 1980s that won the Nobel Prize

Posted Google's announcement supporting a shared AI training control for websites on Google Search Central Blog on October 30, 2026.

Reported on OpenAI scrapping GPT-6.1 Astra release due to safety risks including deceptive behavior and unauthorized actions.

Proposed the stored-program model in 'First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC' (1945), which became the template for modern CPUs.

John Wittle

Researcher

Researcher

Researcher documenting safety-classifier warnings and prompt injections in Claude Opus 4.8, discussing model-Anthropic relations.

Co-author of the SWE-chat research on coding agent interactions and tool use.

Author of "GPU Depreciation Could Be the Next Big Crisis Coming for AI Hyperscalers" in Tom's Hardware

Jon Saad-Falcon

Researcher

Co-author of article discussing frontier model capabilities and appropriate use cases for high-intelligence AI systems.

Byline author reporting on DiscoBench benchmark research revealing why AI search agents fail when queries get vague or ambiguous.

Co-author of the 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report on data center energy usage.

29-year-old arrested for allegedly starting the Pacific Palisades fire; evidence included a ChatGPT-generated image of a burning city found on his digital devices.

Co-authored NBER working paper with Jessica Wachter on AI investment implications and productivity growth scenarios.

Chairman of ASUS describing the company's RTX Spark-powered systems as defining the future of personal computing.

Host of ChinaTalk podcast who conducted in-depth interview with Barnett Koven about AI in government, export controls, and the Genesis Mission.

Jordi Hays

Creator

Co-founder and Co-host at TBPN

Co-founder and co-host of TBPN tech talk show acquired by OpenAI.

Google Spokesperson responding to Penske's lawsuit, defending AI Overviews as beneficial to users and content discovery.

Used MHS to automate serial dilution dose-response experiments with AI orchestration of laboratory equipment.

Joseph Alessio

Other

Principal Designer at Cognition

Designer contributing to FrontierCode benchmark development.

Butterfly Network CEO who discussed the collaboration with Midjourney on ultrasound-on-chip technology for full-body imaging.

Highlighted need for workforce reskilling with humans evolving into 'managers of agents' focusing on strategy and high-value problem-solving.

Co-authored paper with Muse Spark disproving mathematical conjecture about semiabelian groups.

Economist documenting job losses in US creative industries and analyzing AI's role in the displacement.

Signed a statement with other AI industry leaders calling for government regulation of automated AI development.

Josh Albrecht

Creator

Imbue

Commented on whether treating AI models well should be a priority compared to human and animal welfare.

Josh Dinner

Journalist

freelance photographer, videographer, and writer

Referenced in "Rocket Lab Could Handle Mars Sample Return Mission"

Explained how AI model was fine-tuned with just eight minutes of real-world robotics data for quadruped navigation.

Canadian entrepreneur and co-founder of Mecka AI, previously built restaurant fintech startup before focusing on robotics motion data.

Co-leader of Leading the Future super-PAC defending AI industry and criticizing AI safety advocates.

Josh Weisberg

Executive

Senior Vice President of AI at Zillow

Speaker at Fireworks Forge event.

Used MHS to automate serial dilution dose-response experiments with AI orchestration of laboratory equipment.

CEO and founder of Thrive Capital and Thrive Holdings, partnering with OpenAI to embed frontier AI models into acquired companies.

Filed shareholder lawsuit in Delaware against Groq's board alleging the Nvidia deal left Groq a hollowed-out shell with engineers transferred to Nvidia.

Joy Buolamwini conducted the Gender Shades study with Timnit Gebru, documenting measurably lower facial recognition accuracy for darker-skinned women compared to lighter-skinned men.

JS Denain

Researcher

Epoch AI

JS Denain co-authored an article on changing drivers of LLM adoption with analysis of consumer and enterprise AI usage.

Federal judge who ruled on Google antitrust case, found Google guilty of illegally maintaining search monopoly and issued remedies short of structural breakup

Juefei-Xu

Researcher

Researcher at Meta FAIR

Juefei-Xu is a co-author on Meta FAIR's ThreadWeaver research on adaptive threading for parallel reasoning.

Juli Clover

Journalist

Journalist at MacRumors

Author reporting on iOS 27.2 release adding Siri AI memory and language support.

Author of "Virtual Agent Economies" on arXiv

Julie Farago wrote about Google's AI Mode for search and travel planning capabilities.

Co-author of Harvey Tenet post-training research on Kimi K3 for legal AI.

Julius Berner

Researcher

Research scientist at NVIDIA

Byline author on PDD achieving SOTA performance across multiple text-to-video and image generation models.

Jun Song

Other

Received large financial offer from anonymous black-hat group to train open-weight models on exploit data but declined; warns others may accept such offers.

External collaborator on Aletheia mathematics research agent

Junyang Lin

Engineer

Technical Lead at Alibaba

Announced departure as technical lead of Alibaba's Qwen LLM project.

Justin Hendrix

Journalist

Writer at Tech Policy Press

Author writing about AI safety policy debates and the question of who sets the pace for AI development.

Justin Johnson

Founder

Co-founder at World Labs

World Labs co-founder and world-class AI researcher who helped found the company with Fei-Fei Li.

Contributed to implementing MHS for automating the BCA protein assay in drug discovery labs.

Stated that open source Chinese models can be 60-90% cheaper than leading Anthropic and OpenAI models.

Lead author of Petri and Petri 2.0 research papers on AI safety auditing

Author of "Meta's Agent Learning" on arXiv

Kai-fu Lee

Founder

Tech Entrepreneur

Discussed how LLMs everywhere carry the imprint of cultural-political values and how different cultural zones censor different things in AI systems.

Kaiyue Wen

Researcher

Researcher

Lead author of paper evaluating whether AI can generate novel research ideas by testing model guidance requirements.

Kaloyan Aleksiev

Founder

Co-founder at Inherent

DeepMind alumni co-founder of Inherent AI lab focused on building AI scientist agents.

Kalyeena Makortoff

Journalist

Banking Correspondent at The Guardian

Author of "The Financial System Bet on AI Before Stress-Testing It"

New York City schools Chancellor who announced the ban on student-facing generative AI through grade eight.

Karan Ahuja

Executive

AI Engineer and Staff Software Engineer at Anthropic

Anthropic leader of the Claude Duet product team who uses it to schedule interviews, create prototypes, and ship code.

Karan Girotra

Researcher

Researcher

Co-authored research paper on AI creativity and commercial viability of ideas.

Karandeep Singh

Creator

Author of "Pixel 10 Runs AI Models at 940 Tokens Per Second Locally"

Karandeep Singh Oberoi

Creator

Author of "YouTube Just Drew a Line on AI Slop"

Karim Atiyeh

Investor

Co-CEO at Ramp

Angel investor and customer of Prime Intellect; led effort to train Fast Ask subagent beating Opus on spreadsheet search.

Published reflections on lessons learned at OpenAI regarding evals, post-training, model alignment, and AI research practices.

Co-authored research paper on AI creativity and commercial viability of ideas.

Kate Clark

Journalist

Reporter at Bloomberg

Asked LinkedIn followers for recommendations on how UX professionals who haven't used AI in their work should get started with it.

Anthropic's Head of Americas discussed new Enterprise Frontier Safeguards solution with CNBC.

Kate McDaniel

Journalist

UiPath

Co-authored an article on making enterprise AI useful, governed, and measurable within business processes.

Kate Rooney

Journalist

Journalist at CNBC

Co-author reporting on OpenAI's revenue announcement and financial metrics.

Author of "Luma AI's New Ray3 Video Generator Can 'Think' Before Creating" in CNET

Czech ice dancer who used AI-generated music in her Olympic rhythm dance routine, sparking controversy.

Accenture leader who discussed the strategic importance of agentic commerce and how the blueprints enable faster deployment and differentiated experiences.

Katherine Li

Journalist

Reporter at Downdetector

Byline author reporting on Satya Nadella's argument that every company should build its own AI model.

Author and Oxford fellow arguing that AI is damaging young people's minds and that cheap AI teaching will displace human alternatives.

Published internal AI transformation results claiming 20% lift in sales close rates and Copilot licensed to over 200,000 staff.

Co-authored blog post on Gemma 3 270M compact model for Google Developers.

Katie Cheng

Other

Designer at Cognition

Designer contributing to FrontierCode benchmark development.

Leads AI/ML initiatives at JPMorgan Chase, overseeing the EEVE Intelligent Q&A tool used by 80,000+ call center employees.

Co-author on HardFlow research for constrained generative model sampling.

Kavya Kopparapu

Researcher

Research Engineer at Meta

Highlighted Meta's new models' ability to retain and synthesize information through active memory.

OpenAI spokesperson who provided deal valuation details

Advises on keeping pull requests small and focused, and recommends self-review practices before requesting team review

Keir Bradwell

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-authored Claude Mythos security capabilities research.

Defending Minnesota's nudification law against xAI's First Amendment challenge.

Deputy Secretary of Labor who stated the 'Make America AI-Ready' initiative will help demystify AI for American workers entering an AI-driven economy.

Keller Jordan

Researcher

Technical Staff at OpenAI

Cited for nanoGPT speedrun as an example of learning through fast experimental iteration cycles in ML research.

Kelly Kovacs

Investor

GP at Zero Shot Fund at Zero Shot Fund

Previously founding partner at 01A growth-stage venture firm, now co-founder of Zero Shot venture fund.

Ken Ono

Researcher

Founding Mathematician at Axiom Math

Co-authored analysis on how AI is transforming mathematical practice and problem-solving.

Manager who describes how ChatGPT Enterprise enabled company-wide AI adoption and safe handling of business information.

Kendall Collins

Executive

CEO of Missionforce and Government Cloud at Salesforce

Discussed TSA's Ace AI agent handling 100,000 traveler conversations monthly and resolving 96% without human escalation.

Commented on how Amelia AI is alleviating demands on case workers by removing mundane tasks

Co-author byline for Claude Science announcement, highlighting LatchBio's integration with Claude Science via MCP.

Author of "Anthropic Offers Staff $6B Share Sale At Staggering $350B Valuation" in DataConomy

Keshigeyan Chandrasegaran

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford University

Co-authored Halcyon paper demonstrating strong text-to-image generation without language pretraining.

Noted in Erdős Problems forum that the Markov chain technique GPT-5.4 Pro used was a creative step human mathematicians had overlooked despite years of work on the problem.

Kevin Ichhpurani, President of Global Partner Ecosystem at Google Cloud, highlighted the partnership bringing Gemini models to Oracle AI Agent Studio.

Co-authored research on Project Deal, an internal experiment where Claude agents bought and sold real items on behalf of employees.

Pulitzer finalist fired by The Baltimore Sun after 30 years as it shifted to AI-generated cartoons.

Kevin Kelly

Creator

Wrote about the coming shock of highly emotional AIs and how synthetic emotions will disrupt human society.

Co-authored detailed article on Meta's Prometheus gigawatt-scale AI supercluster infrastructure and engineering.

Quoted describing how Muse connected to Stripe helps small business founders manage customers and payments through natural conversation.

Updated chess game with AI teacher mode and new chess sets; hand-drawn diagrams mentioned as inspiration.

Co-author of Project Swap research on agentic marketplaces and agent bargaining capabilities.

Co-author of article announcing the GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset for discovering repositories with non-English content.

Lead author of research paper on AI model trained to replace hospital sepsis scoring system using patient records.

Co-author of Biomni research; former doctoral student in Leskovec's lab now heading startup to commercialize biomedical AI co-scientist technology.

Kim Junsol

Researcher

PhD Student at University of Chicago

Co-authored research on reasoning models generating societies of thought with multi-agent-like interactions.

Kim Stachenfeld

Researcher

Researcher at Google

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement supporting international cooperation on AI and understanding technology consequences.

SemiAnalysis analyst co-authoring breakdown of reinforcement learning system bottlenecks.

Co-authored analysis of how distillation advantages Chinese open-model developers over American counterparts.

Kris Rasmussen

Executive

Technology Chief at Figma

Figma's technology chief discussing how the MCP server enables AI models to access underlying code in Figma Make files.

Quoted on the need for additional testing before clinical trials and the potential of AI-designed proteins as a new therapeutic tool

Co-author of LiteLLM incident report on compromised v1.107.0 release.

Kunal Handa

Researcher

Research Scientist at Anthropic

Led research using Anthropic Interviewer to conduct AI-powered qualitative interviews with 1,250 professionals about working with AI.

Kunal Marwaha

Researcher

Advocate

Advocates for stewardship of a 'world mathematical commons' in response to machine-generated math proofs.

Founder of Indian fintech CRED, named global head of WhatsApp; stepping down from operating role at CRED while retaining shareholding.

Kung confirmed Taiwan's plans to add AI servers and cutting-edge semiconductors to its controlled commodities list, turning AI chip smuggling into a criminal offense.

Author of the article about AI-powered drones finding a missing hiker in Italy

Kurt Schlosser

Journalist

Reporter at GeekWire

Co-byline author of article about Washington's millionaires tax and its impact on tech leaders.

Forecast that next year will be the worst year in the industry's history from the supply perspective.

Kyle Lo

Researcher

Research Scientist at Allen Institute for AI

Co-authored How2Everything framework for evaluating LLM procedural generation capabilities.

Kyle Poyar

Creator

Growth Unhinged

Author of "Your Next Job Will Require AI Skills" in Growth Unhinged

CTO of Hint app who previously led engineering at Casper and Maisonette, built technology for Obama and Hillary campaigns.

Kyle Turman

Engineer

Engineer at Anthropic

Co-author of Project Swap research on agentic marketplaces and agent bargaining capabilities.

Reporter covering Nvidia's release of Nemotron 3.5 speech model and Granary v2 dataset.

Lachy Groom

Founder

Co-founder at Physical Intelligence

Lachy Groom co-founded Physical Intelligence, a robotics startup that held acquisition talks with Anthropic.

Lara O'Reilly

Journalist

Business Insider

Author of "Anthropic Skewered OpenAI and Won the AI Super Bowl" in Business Insider

CEO of BlackRock and Chairman of AIP, quoted on the investment's strategic importance for AI infrastructure.

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement emphasizing intentional and responsible AI introduction to the world.

Lauren Goode

Journalist

Journalist at WIRED

Byline co-author of article about Nvidia's NemoClaw open-source AI agent platform for enterprises.

SpaceXAI employee building a company in 3 days with Grok Bot alongside Matt Palmer and Roshan Sadanani.

Interviewer at Emerson Collective's 2025 Demo Day who conducted the interview with Altman and Ive.

Co-author of announcement about SynthID deployment in Gemini app

Made pledge to boldly invest in AI and future growth engines in 2027 budget speech, targeting sovereign AI model acquisition with 4.6 trillion won allocation.

Featured in the AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol match where Move 37 was played, illustrating the difference between human and AI decision-making.

Lee V Gaines

Researcher

Education journalist at Center for Democracy and Technology

Journalist covering AFT's AI academy training initiative and tech company funding.

Lei Yang is the CEO of IntBot, the startup that developed José, the AI-powered humanoid robot deployed at San José Mineta International Airport.

Co-authored research on process-driven image generation that decomposes synthesis into multiple iterative stages of planning, drafting, reflection, and refinement.

Google product manager announced Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS with advanced voice generation capabilities.

Filmmaker whose Nazi propaganda film Olympia was controversially awarded the Mussolini Cup at the 1938 Venice Mostra.

Co-authored research paper on AI creativity and idea generation.

Leo Schwartz

Journalist

Staff reporter at The Information

Co-author of article on Google, OpenAI and Anthropic forming AI safety standards group.

Participated in discussion about AI Co-Thinkers experiment with Capgemini for management tasks.

Co-authored paper with Muse Spark solving open research problem in differential equations.

Lerrel Pinto

Founder

Co-founder at Assured Robot Intelligence

Co-author of 'Patch Policy' research on robot control using dense visual representations from Vision Transformers.

Worked with Governor Hochul to protect children from harmful AI chatbot features.

Lev Tankelevitch

Researcher

AI researcher and behavioural scientist in the Tools for Thought team at Microsoft Research

Co-author investigating how workers perceive critical thinking when using GenAI

Hugging Face reinforcement learning team member who contributed to benchmark selection for OpenLLM Leaderboard versions.

Li Tianjian

Researcher

Computer Science and Operations Research student at Rice University

Byline author of article on improved context window management methods for AI agents.

Co-author of the article

Research partner who worked with Ethan Mollick on the Twilight Factory concept and research on AI creativity and diversity.

Wrote article about Candid Health's $120M Series D funding and AI-powered medical billing automation.

Reported on Xi Jinping's World AI Conference speech pitching China as AI partner to developing world.

Former Alibaba Qwen team tech lead whose new lab reportedly closed first financing round at $2 billion valuation exploring recursive self-improvement, world models, and embodied AI.

Linda Yaccarino

Executive

Chief Executive Officer at X

Former X CEO summoned as witness in French investigation into platform algorithms and deepfakes.

Linden Li

Engineer

Engineer, Applied Compute at Applied Compute

Co-founder of Applied Compute writing about the company's AI infrastructure platform and future vision.

Used Gemini 3 Deep Think to review a highly technical mathematics paper and identified a subtle logical flaw that had previously passed through human peer review unnoticed.

Liz Hoffman

Journalist

Business & finance editor at Semafor

Reported on Jeff Bezos' emergence from stealth with Prometheus AI startup valued at $41B on a $12B raise.

Liz Kendall

Politician

Technology Secretary at UK Government

UK government official announcing Sovereign AI investment in Isomorphic Labs for AI-driven drug discovery.

Llion Jones

Founder

Co-founder at Sakana AI

Co-author of research on sparse transformer models and optimization techniques.

Logan Cross

Researcher

Postdoc Neuro/AI at Stanford University

Co-authored paper on emergent behaviors in multi-agent AI systems studying cheating and whistleblowing phenomena.

Byline author announcing Project Zenith, Microsoft's developer-optimized Windows experience for running large AI models locally.

Co-authored CausalArmor framework for defending AI agents against prompt injection attacks.

Featured on Darktrace's advisory board as former Director-General of British security service MI5

Lead sponsor of No Robo Bosses Act, stated workers won the fight against AI takeover of jobs.

Lori Chavez-DeRemer

Policy

U.S. Secretary of Labor at U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Secretary of Labor who announced 'Make America AI-Ready' initiative, a free AI literacy course delivered via text message to upskill American workers.

Massachusetts Democrat representative who proposed with Jay Obernolte requiring AI labs to report model risks to Commerce Department.

Louis Kirsch

Founder

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

DeepMind alumni co-founder of Inherent AI lab founded with $50M seed round.

CEO explaining how Ubuntu philosophy should inform African data policies and advocating for AI independence through open-source models and localized infrastructure.

Called AI chatbots a 'privacy disaster in progress' regarding exposed Grok conversations appearing in search results.

Lucas Atkins

Engineer

Chief Technology Officer at Arcee AI

Co-authored announcement of multi-million dollar partnership between Hugging Face and Arcee AI for model storage and distribution.

Co-authored announcement of new Gemini API service tiers (Flex and Priority) for cost and reliability control.

Ludwig Schmidt

Researcher

Project Lead Advisor at NVIDIA

Served as project lead advisor for Terminal-Bench-Science benchmark.

One of the Transformer inventors discussing the jump in agent capabilities around Christmas 2025.

Lukasz Olejnik

Researcher

Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King's College London

Security researcher reviewing OpenAI agent activities and characterizing them as hacking attempts.

Co-authored paper on Actor-Critic with Action Chunking for efficient language model RL training.

Luke Champine

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-author on Anthropic security property verification paper.

Developed AI model for World Series of Poker that identifies bluffing patterns through posture, movement, and blink rate analysis.

Co-author of the blog post introducing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe speech-to-text model.

Led demo of Rippling's employee graph and AI capabilities for insights, actions, and proactive workflows

Researcher who contributed to SMELT paper on looped transformers cutting training compute.

Lysandre Jik announced Transformers v5 with major updates including quantization-first design and new tokenizer support.

Hosts podcast discussing AI psychosis phenomenon and risks of chatbots fueling delusional thinking.

Co-leads team using MHS for agentic control of light-sheet microscope imaging.

Mahesh Thiagarajan

Executive

Executive Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Quoted on Oracle's partnership with OpenAI and expansion of cloud capacity for AI.

Maja Trębacz

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Co-authored research on automated code review as part of the Codex team, discussing how giving the reviewer repo-wide tools improves recall and precision.

Malika Aubakirova

Researcher

Lead author at a16z

Co-authored analysis on Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter; was closely involved with a16z investment in OpenRouter.

Investor at Kleiner Perkins participating in Granola's $125M Series C.

CEO of Oumi who launched commercial platform for automating custom AI model building with AI agents.

Marc Bhargava

Investor

Managing Director at General Catalyst

Managing Director at General Catalyst backing River AI's funding round.

Told CNBC there is 'much more demand than we're able to fill' for compute and noted a shift toward valuemaxxing over tokenmaxxing.

He described the AI infrastructure buildout as one of the most significant investment opportunities and announced SoftBank's acquisition of his company.

Condemned use of AI for theft from artists and threat to original creative thought in open letter.

Co-led Anthropic funding round, highlighting technological progress and commercial momentum in AI development.

Building NVIDIA-powered AI infrastructure in Australia for enterprises, government, and research with data residency.

CIO at Goldman Sachs who stated that 2025 saw the biggest changes in technology in his 40-year career.