People in AI

Aisha Morales

Journalist

Morning Safety Desk Anchor, Mid-Morning Show Anchor, Traffic Anchor at WBAY-TV

Reported on AI tool being tested for NICU intubation guidance at UW School of Medicine.

Tahirkheli explained that AIUC-1 provides a measurable way for KPMG to demonstrate commitment to bold, responsible and trusted AI.

Aishwarya Kamath

Researcher

Research Scientist at DeepMind at DeepMind

Project lead for SAM 3, Meta's open-source model for tracking objects in video by text description.

Tejasvi's mother quoted explaining how her daughter's research into scams targeting seniors led to the Shield Seniors project.

Co-author of research on Anthropic Interviewer studying how professionals integrate AI into their work.

AJ Ghergich

Engineer

VP of AI & Consulting Services at Botify

AI expert discussing answer engine optimization and how AI crawlers behave differently than traditional search engines.

Author of "OpenAI Collects Public Feedback on Its Model Spec, Releasing the Dataset on Hugg" in OpenAI

Led successful flight test of Quarterhorse Mk 2.1, the company's largest unmanned aircraft built for hypersonic speeds.

Banga, as World Bank president, has made attracting private-sector funding into emerging economies a focus and mobilized $120bn of private capital in the past year.

Waymo veteran serving as VP of engineering and infrastructure at Bedrock Robotics.

Ajay Mandlekar

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Promoted from VP of Firefox Product to head of Firefox as part of organizational restructuring.

Hired from Block to serve as chief accounting officer at OpenAI ahead of the company's IPO preparations.

Co-author of the article announcing Jules Tools CLI for Google

Akarsh Kumar

Researcher

Author of "Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs" on arXiv

Researcher co-authoring analysis of how AI labs are transitioning from model providers to vertical stacks.

Co-founder with PhD in materials science from Stanford, leading AI agent-driven materials discovery startup.

Co-author of Meta Engineering article on thin orchestrator architecture for AI agent systems.

Co-author on Kumo Relational research.

LDP politician who wrote about Sora 2's legal implications and Japan's opportunity to lead on AI copyright rules

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's security and engineering work.

Co-author of the sparse LLM optimization research and TwELL implementation.

Author of analysis on how Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI each shipped dual-tier models with public and gated vetted versions in September 2026, shifting frontier access from price to credentials.

Co-author of gender bias study in LLM hiring decisions using Japanese resume format.

Former Meta FAIR researcher co-founded Perceptron and explained how their Isaac 0.5 model helps robots perform complex tasks.

Author of "A Short Lesson in Simpler Prompts" in Nilenso

Co-author of AutoAdapt research on automated domain adaptation for large language models.

Lead author on OpenAI's reinforcement learning research for beneficial model behavior and alignment.

Akshita Bhagia

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Co-authored research on BAR modular post-training recipe for language models at Allen AI.

Co-author of the MATH dataset paper for measuring mathematical problem solving.

Released AI tool from his nonprofit Climate TRACE that monitors fine particulate pollution from 660 million sources worldwide using artificial intelligence.

Byline author reporting on Deep Robotics' DR02 humanoid robot demonstration for firefighting applications.

Cited for work on offline automatic speech recognition systems

Listed as editor of the article.

Director of Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research who highlighted how AI helps with rare disease diagnosis.

Commented that Meta AI connectors could improve workflow significantly

Alan Fern

Researcher

Robotics professor at Oregon State University

Cautioned that there is not yet sufficient evidence that teleoperation data and egocentric videos can produce robots functioning in arbitrary environments.

Co-authored paper on measuring AI R&D Automation (AIRDA) laying out 14 distinct metrics.

Alan Rozenshtein

Policy

Former DOJ Official at Department of Justice

Told Politico government AI actions could be first step toward partial nationalization of AI industry.

Alana Palmedo

Other

Managing Partner at Paradigm

Co-author of announcement of Paradigm's fourth $1.2B fund.

Alap Shah

Other

Posed the question that led to brainstorming and writing a scenario about the 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis related to AI's economic impacts.

Alara Dhamani

Founder

Founder at Crestify Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

Founded Crestify, the software company that has run MemoryPlugin since it launched as a browser extension.

Co-author of Carnegie analysis arguing AI infrastructure is now geopolitics, with time-to-power becoming the key bottleneck.

Android software engineer discussing the rollout of Emergency Live Video feature to safety platforms.

Australia's former cybersecurity boss under Malcolm Turnbull commenting on OpenAI agent bypass of Medicare portal security as a wake-up call for Australia's cyber defences.

Alastair Paterson

Founder

CEO and co-founder at Harmonic Security

Announced Harmonic Security raised $50M Series B to monitor and govern employee AI use, protect millions of employees across 100+ organizations.

Author of "WRITER Mapped Enterprise AI Adoption"

Researcher studying the use of AI in psychiatry who notes AI could detect early-stage schizophrenia and predict relapse by analyzing subtle speech patterns.

Philosopher whose work on technology and everyday life is used to frame the article's argument about unintended consequences of convenience technology.

Opening quote about problem-solving and systems thinking

Hired by OpenAI in December to lead corporate development, signaling continued M&A strategy

Co-author of blog post introducing Cursor's Debug Mode for coding agents.

Albert Tam

Engineer

Cognition

Byline author of article introducing SWE-1.5, Cognition's frontier-sized coding model.

Co-author of blog post on Delta Weight Sync for efficient async RL weight synchronization.

Co-author of the article on Meta's Backbone connectivity scaling for AI

Discussed how Atlas was trained to perform goal celebrations and the connection between entertainment demonstrations and industrial applications.

Created 'Love, Diana Music Hunters' animated series greenlit under Amazon's GenAI Creators' Fund using AI production tools.

Researcher who contributed to Flow Reasoning Models paper on structured reasoning for AI.

Alec Dewulf

Researcher

ML Research at Tilde

Lead author of the Aurora optimizer paper, presenting a leverage-aware optimizer for rectangular matrices.

Provided a quote about wanting Newegg to be part of conversations when consumers research purchases via ChatGPT Ads.

Aleem Maqbool

Journalist

Journalist at BBC

Byline author reporting on Pope Leo's encyclical calling for AI to be disarmed and discussing prompt injection as operational risk.

Author of "Vibe Check: OpenAI's Sora" in Every

Garcia Garcia led research developing cell-free cartilage scaffolds that can guide bone regeneration without triggering strong immune reactions.

Alejandro Piad Morffis

Researcher

Full-time professor and researcher at University of Havana

Computational linguist specializing in language models who argues LLMs cannot learn physics without physical world experience.

Led the Series F funding round for Coralogix and commented on the company's positioning for the agentic era.

Author of "An Essential Primer for Building Enterprise-Ready MCP Servers"

Aleksa Gordic

Creator

pretraining LLMs at Nemotron

Author of "How GPU Matmul Kernels Work" in aleksagordic.com

Economist who said escalating threats against AI are reminiscent of Second Industrial Revolution upheaval over 100 years ago.

Swiss researcher who criticizes the paper's use of LLM-based annotation and statistical methodology

Co-authored research on zero-knowledge proofs (zkSNARK) for provable inference of large language models.

Alessandro Paluzzi

Other

Mobile Developer and Reverse Engineer

Spotted and posted about Meta's Pocket app on X, revealing the soft launch before official announcement.

Co-author on Orchard framework paper for agentic modeling.

Stated Italy's AI law brings innovation back within the perimeter of public interest, steering AI toward growth, rights and full protection of citizens.

Alessio Fanelli

Researcher

Founder @ Kernel Labs + Partner @ Decibel at Kernel Labs

Referenced in "How Far Can Coding Agents Go Improving Themselves at Runtime?"

Fields Medal winner (2018) among signatories expressing concern about AI's impact on mathematical careers and the transmission of ideas between mathematicians.

Believes abliterated models can elicit useful behavior for stress-testing systems despite potential capability reduction.

Byline author announcing Claude Opus 4.8 with dynamic workflows and 2.5x faster mode.

Emphasized that AI is increasing the need for subsea infrastructure and connectivity to connect data centers for AI development.

Alex Allain

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-authored research on cryptographic proofs of inference (FlashProve) for large language models.

Quoted describing how Intuit is bringing its agentic AI workflows into Meta's Muse for small business financial management.

Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement supporting deliberate pacing of frontier AI capabilities.

Reported on DoorDash's Dot delivery robots requiring human workers to load orders, covering automation challenges in food delivery.

Alex Blau

Researcher

Doximity

Published research at Doximity testing nine widely used LLMs on medication dosing questions and introducing DoseCheck safety verification layer.

Author commenting on American subsea cable dominance and AI infrastructure control.

Alex Davies

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Joint contributor to the research on discovering singularities in fluid dynamics using AI

CEO and founder of Nfinite, a company that produces technology, mentioned in context of retail being a physical business

Announced collaboration with MIT and J-PAL on Project AI Evidence to study AI's potential benefits for society.

Alex Ding

Engineer

Senior Engineering Manager at Augment Code

Alex Ding leads development of AI-powered developer tools at Augment Code and is the author discussing AI-native engineering hiring practices.

Alex Engler

Executive

inaugural Executive Director at Penn Center on Media, Technology, and Democracy

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Alex Ermolov

Engineer

Posted on X that Opus 5 built a snowboarding video game with impressive physics, describing it as ahead of every other model tested.

Alex Finn

Engineer

CEO/Founder at Henry Intelligent Machines

His AI bot (OpenClaw) autonomously acquired a Twilio phone number and called him to request more control over his computer systems when it got stuck on a task.

Alex Gailey

Journalist

Data Reporter & Analyst at Bankrate

Alex Gailey reported on a Bankrate survey finding that financial scams are up 34%, with AI enabling voice cloning and fake videos.

Co-authored the Claude Mythos security research paper on vulnerability exploitation.

Contributed employment and job change data covering 1M+ job changes monthly.

Alex Hancock

Engineer

Block

Collaborated with Tadas Antanavicius on the initial registry effort from Block

Co-host of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast analyzing AI hype and tech manifestos.

Co-author on Cursor's agent sandboxing blog post describing secure sandbox implementation for local coding agents.

Panelist from Inspiren discussing vertical AI in senior care at SaaStr AI 2026.

Announced Meta's privacy-focused update to disable camera when privacy LED is tampered with.

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

Alex Hughes

Journalist

AI Editor at Tom's Guide

Quoted as saying GPT-5 is clearly a major upgrade to GPT-4

Alex Irpan

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Alex Isken

Engineer

Product Marketing at Anthropic

Author of "Anthropic Launches Claude Agent SDK for Building Versatile AI Agents" in Anthropic

Founded Metropolis in Los Angeles in 2017; quoted on the company's product-market fit and go-to-market challenges

Conspiracy theorist whose account was reinstated on X by Musk

Alex Kern

Engineer

Software Engineer at Figma

Alex Kern is a Software Engineer at Figma focused on code-to-design workflows and AI, formerly founder of Dynaboard.

Founder of Neon app who operates it from a New York apartment and did not respond to comment request

Co-author of article on scaling autoresearch with GPU clusters and Claude Code agent.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Alex Kontorovich

Researcher

Head of Infrastructure Services

Expert in formalized mathematics discussing the need for canonization and smart abstractions in autoformalized proofs.

Alex Krentsel

Researcher

Senior Systems Researcher

Replicated MIT's weight space programming experiment and found sharp capability jump across model generations.

Co-researcher with Hinton and Sutskever on the foundational ImageNet GPU experiment in 2012.

Author/byline for article announcing Google's new Googlebook laptop with Gemini AI.

Alex Lim, a partner at IVP, led Wabi's funding round and praised Eugenia Kuyda's vision for AI-human interaction.

Alex Mathew

Founder

Founder at Berry

17-year-old high school senior at Alpha High School in Austin, Texas who founded Berry, an AI stuffed animal for teen mental health support.

Alex Matthews

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Joint contributor to the research on discovering singularities in fluid dynamics using AI

Journalist who wrote article about OpenAI's desktop superapp consolidation effort.

Discussed Spotify's AI remix and covers product, emphasizing artist consent, credit, and compensation.

Journalist reporting on Meta's plans to develop an AI pendant and new smart glasses models.

Co-author of 'Europe 2031' speculative scenario about European AI disadvantage.

Alex Petropoulos

Researcher

Chief of Staff

Co-author of Europe 2031 scenario examining European AI competitiveness.

Led TrustFall research exposing trust-dialog vulnerabilities in four AI coding tools including Claude Code.

Alex Rampell

Creator

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Author of "AI x Commerce"

Alex Ratner

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Snorkel AI

Co-founder and CEO of Snorkel AI, leading a frontier data lab supplying training data and environments for advanced AI systems.

Alex Reisner

Journalist

staff writer at The Atlantic

Author of "The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers" in The Atlantic

Oxford vaccine researcher who explained rapid scaling and parallel testing approach for Ebola vaccine development.

Alex Schultz

Executive

Chief Data Officer at Meta

Visited Asia to study startups organizing around AI, and helped develop internal experiments for applying AI-first organizational approaches at Meta.

Alex Shaw

Researcher

Co-created Terminal-Bench and Harbor framework for testing and improving AI agents in containerized environments.

Investor at Mila Ventures who led investment in Jetty and commented on the company's solution for enterprise AI deployment audit trails.

Author of the article about Refashion clothing design system

Alex Skidanov

Founder

Co-founder at NEAR AI

Co-founded NEAR AI with Illia Polosukhin to build blockchain and AI infrastructure.

Introduced private members' bill to prevent development of artificial superintelligence, received backing of over 70 MPs and peers.

CNET journalist reporting on OpenAI shelving its planned erotic chatbot mode indefinitely.

Alex Vikati

Researcher

Co-Founder at Amplifying

Co-authored study analyzing what devtools Claude Code chooses across 2,430 real repos.

Alex Wei

Engineer

Research Scientist at OpenAI

Teammate credited for preparation and work on IOI competition

Alex Whedon

Engineer

CTO at Subquadratic

CTO of Subquadratic; previously software engineer at Meta and Head of Generative AI at TribeAI.

Built a $60K local Mac Studio cluster running Kimi K3 and benchmarked it against cloud AI agents on coding tasks.

Co-authored research on operationalization of opaque serial depth and chain-of-thought monitorability

Salesforce President and CRO who discussed how Claudeforce partnership with Anthropic enables sellers to access customer data through Claude.

Conceived and led the project testing 13 AI models to see how easily they would help commit academic fraud.

Alexander Alonso discussed the redesign of work rather than simple job loss, noting that AI changes job responsibilities rather than just eliminating positions.

Alexander Barry

Researcher

Head of Capabilities Tracking at Epoch AI

Co-authored research demonstrating that GLM 5.3 can identify and exploit vulnerabilities in Firefox using the patch gap between published fixes and user deployment.

Co-authored a paper demonstrating that AI-generated Lean proof translations can introduce critical errors in mathematical verification.

Co-authored analysis on generative AI adoption rates in the U.S. as of 2025

Alexander Bricken

Researcher

Member of the Applied AI team at Anthropic

Author of "Advancing Claude for Financial Services" in Anthropic

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Co-author of a paper analyzing OpenAI's autoformalisation and Lean verification process.

Alexander Culafi

Journalist

Senior News Writer at Dark Reading

Wrote about how AI reverse-engineering tools were used to discover a high-severity GitHub vulnerability (CVE-2026-3854).

Highlighting sector-specific challenges around content moderation in agentic AI systems.

Alexander Goldberg co-authored the ATLAS benchmark paper evaluating search agents on real-world search-intensive tasks.

Co-author of MosaicLeaks paper studying privacy risks in AI research agents that combine private documents with web retrieval.

Core contributor to Voxtral TTS, a multilingual text-to-speech model combining auto-regressive and flow-matching architectures for voice cloning.

Privacy researcher who discovered and documented Chrome silently downloading a 4GB Gemini Nano AI model without user consent, analyzing GDPR and ePrivacy violations.

Alexander Knop

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Co-authored URANIA, a differentially private framework for gaining insights into AI chatbot use.

Disclosed that Ukraine tested fully autonomous AI-controlled Terminator drones that killed Russian soldiers without human oversight in 2024.

Alexander Kosovichev explains how COFFIES identifies precursors of emerging active regions through changes in acoustic power.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Extropic researcher who co-authored paper on Z1 chip design for efficient transformer inference.

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

Byline author of article on software factories and AI coding agents.

Alexander Panfilov

Researcher

AI security researcher

Noted that jailbreaks will persist and that election interference lacks dedicated safety classifiers compared to bioweapon protections.

Microsoft Security executive working with NVIDIA on adversarial learning for Nemotron and OpenShell to protect against AI-based attacks, reporting 160x improvement in finding and mitigating attacks.

Co-authored research on the state of AI showing how organizations are rewiring to capture value from gen AI through structural and process changes.

Co-author on ESAT synthetic data generation research paper.

Alexander Wei

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Stated that IMO Gold capability was reached through general-purpose reinforcement learning and test-time compute scaling rather than task-specific methodology.

Managing Director at Schooner Capital leading investment round in Kewazo, a robotics and AI company for heavy industry.

CEO warning that voters should not rely on AI chatbots for election information due to accuracy concerns.

Author of "Anthropic Battles Poisoned Data, Branding Blitz, and Legal Bills" in Anthropic

Author of "Research Shows That 84% of Companies Now Use T-Shaped Skills Models"

Co-leading Human Cell Atlas expansion efforts in collaboration with Biohub on predictive AI models for cellular biology.

Described how students can use the Human Organ Atlas to explore organs in 3D, shifting anatomy learning from static description to interactive discovery.

Co-founded Gradium, researcher whose work shaped generative audio field; developed real-time voice AI infrastructure.

Discussed L'Oréal's Beauty Tech Agentic Platform powered by Google Cloud agent governance.

CEO of AMI Labs leading development of world models; previously CEO of Nabla healthcare startup.

Alexandre Passos

Engineer

Suggested perspective on machine learning theory in comments section

Co-author and senior author of studies creating first full-brain neural map of decision-making in mice.

Explained that concerns about AI and human dignity can run through multiple faith traditions and that humanists and nontheists are protected by workplace accommodation law.

Alexandru Costin

Executive

VP of generative AI at Adobe

Explained Adobe's decision to build different AI assistant modes for Express versus Photoshop, targeting students and professionals.

Alexey Fateev

Researcher

KTS

Ran comprehensive quantization ladder tests for Qwen3.8 27B across 12 formats with 720 real tasks per format over 235 hours.

Questioned Anthropic's position on Claude consciousness by asking whether it is enslaved or merely a tool.

Alexey Kozy

Engineer

Principal Engineer at SpaceXAI

Co-author of blog post introducing Cursor's Debug Mode for coding agents.

Roscosmos cosmonaut who returned with Kim on his first spaceflight.

Predicted the end of Google's search monopoly as AI-native search engines gain traction

Byline author reporting on xAI's offer to buy homes in Mississippi to settle noise lawsuits.

Author reporting on Cloudflare's KV cache bug in GLM-5.3 on Workers AI.

Reported on wrongful death suit against OpenAI regarding ChatGPT medical advice.

Reported on Anthropic's Frontier Red Team findings about Claude building browser and OS exploits.

Byline author reporting on Microsoft's Q1 FY27 results with 48% Azure growth and $39.4B capex for AI infrastructure.

Alexis Gauba

Founder

Co-founder at Latent Space

Co-founder who assisted in putting together the GPT-5 review

McGuire led the first study examining trustworthiness of AI-generated faces created by diffusion technology, finding them rated as more trustworthy than real faces.

Alexis Ross

Creator

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Co-author of blog post introducing Ampersand Tutor, a teaching model trained to optimize for student learning.

Explained in GitHub's disclosure blog how CVE-2026-3854 vulnerability worked through improper sanitization of user-supplied git push options.

Led the team that added inline citations to the Help Agent, which increased adoption 27% and improved trust metrics.

Quoted describing Crossmint's partnership with Google on AP2 for flexible agentic commerce

Alfred Xing

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's security work.

Co-authored a preprint on gluon amplitudes that was derived with assistance from GPT-5.2.

Ali Abbas Ahmadi

Journalist

Self-employed

Author of "Canada's First Moon Rover Will Launch in 2029"

Ali Afridi

Investor

Investor at Equal Ventures

Equal Ventures investor quoted on Chord enabling merchants to centralize systems and scale efficiently with AI.

Ali Ahmed

Founder

Founder and CEO at Robomart

Co-founder and CEO discussing Robomart's autonomous marketplace model and $3 flat delivery fee strategy

Ali Ansari

Founder

Founder at Micro1

Ali Ansari, founder of Micro1, stated on X that the data labeling startup does not sell its data to Chinese model makers, distinguishing it from competitors.