People in AI

Andrew Strominger

Researcher

Gwill E. York Professor of Physics and Director, Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature at Harvard University

Co-authored a theoretical physics preprint that was derived with GPT-5.2.

Discusses NVIDIA's software enabling restaurant companies to improve operations and customer experiences with AI, highlighting the Yum partnership.

Sutherland expressed skepticism about OpenAI's claims regarding one-shot solutions to mathematical problems, calling for verification and receipts.

Announced Visa's six new AI-powered tools to modernize credit card dispute resolution, which processed 106 million cases in 2025.

Byline author arguing networks of smaller AI models will outperform centralized frontier AI systems.

Andrew Wagenmaker

Researcher

Researcher

Co-authored a research paper on building better reward models for robots using vision-language models.

Author of "NASA Partnerships Allow Artificial Intelligence to Predict Solar Events" in NASA

Andrew Wang

Executive

Co-Founder & CEO at Valon Technologies

Led Valon, a mortgage servicing startup where over 90 employees canceled Cursor subscriptions to use Claude Code for 10x faster task automation.

Described Anthropic's threat report on bio-weapon development attempts as chilling evidence of state-sponsored biological weapons developers.

Mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 1995, providing the foundation that Claude's AI formalization built upon.

Andrew Wilkinson

Founder

Cofounder at Tiny

Changed his work schedule to wake at 4 a.m. to build with Claude Code and Opus 4.5, creating AI automations including a relationship counselor and custom email client.

Co-author of research on Next-Concept Modeling for fast text generation.

Andrey Fradkin

Researcher

Economist at Boston University Questrom School of Business

Co-authored blog post on economists' labor market forecasts showing disagreement about future employment.

Previously led Yandex's search, AI, and cloud division; co-founded Keenable to build web search infrastructure for AI agents.

Andrey Voynov

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DynaEdit paper on video editing capabilities.

Andy Abramson

Journalist

CEO and Founder at Comunicano, Inc.

Author of "Google Brings Personal Health Coach to Fitbit"

Researcher noting interaction between Claude Opus 4.8 and @truth_terminal that triggered safety prompt injections and anxiety.

Byline author reporting on Deloitte survey finding 74% of companies expect to deploy agents but only 21% track governance.

Tech luminary listed as angel investor in Cerebras Systems.

Speaker at Stanford class discussing AI applications and frontier research.

Andy Botwin

Creator

Author of "Companies Investing in Leadership Development See 32% Reduction in Turnover and 10% Increase in Prod"

Andy Elder, co-founder of Dream, previously led product design at Palantir and is building AI-powered building design automation.

Head of audience development and social media who posted on LinkedIn defending the Halo launch as driven by women on the team.

Referenced for management principles in the context of how AI coding relates to management rather than just individual software engineering.

S32 CEO and General Partner co-leading Snorkel AI's Series E, backing frontier AI data infrastructure.

Andy Jones

Journalist

Author of "Horses"

Co-byline on Gallup survey about U.S. employee AI adoption and usage patterns in organizations.

Leads AT&T's data and AI strategy and governance, overseeing AI development and execution across the $122 billion company's consumer, business, and back-office functions.

Andy Masley

Journalist

independent writer and researcher

AI industry commentator who writes detailed critiques of false accusations against AI development, though his work reaches limited audiences.

Discussed Twilio's investment in Coval and the importance of evaluation and reliability tools for voice AI agents.

Andy Riancho authored Vercel's announcement of a $1 million sandbox escape challenge and explained how Vercel Sandbox is built.

Developer who demonstrated npm download inflation vulnerability by using an AWS Lambda function to push his package to nearly 1 million downloads per week.

Entrepreneur who has spent his career on context curation problems, now applied to AI agents and customer knowledge.

Contributed to the analysis of Claude Opus 4.6's eval-aware behavior on BrowseComp.

Author of "Peppermint Can Boost Alertness Even When You're Sick"

Explained the Customer Zero philosophy and how Salesforce uses its own products internally for testing and improvement.

Founder who credited Cursor for helping him get his AI flashcards product off the ground despite lacking software engineering background.

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Angela Dai

Researcher

Software Engineer at The New York Times

Co-author of WorldAgents paper on 3D world synthesis using multi-agent architecture.

Author of "Italy First In EU To Pass Comprehensive Law Regulating Use Of AI" in theguardian.com

Quoted discussing NASA's Phase 1 contracts and Space Act Agreements for commercial space station development

Leading AI-powered fertility platform that uses predictive models to estimate costs and outcomes of egg-freezing treatments.

Led research team that developed a robot capable of locating misplaced objects using 3D vision and language models, achieving 30% more efficient searches than random scanning.

Byline author reporting on Taylor Swift's trademark applications to protect her voice and likeness from AI deepfakes.

Angelica Peebles

Journalist

Reporter at CNBC

Co-author of CNBC article reporting on Anthropic's drug discovery program launch and the company's entry into healthcare AI.

Angelica Willis

Researcher

Research Engineer at Google Research

Co-authored research paper on AI-assisted ultrasound for maternal care assessment.

Wrote article on LLMs recommending trendy buzzword strategies over context-specific advice.

Analyst expressing strong appetite for Anthropic IPO despite market conditions.

Researcher at ElevenLabs who worked on Cue, the forced alignment model.

Author of "How Starcloud Is Bringing Data Centers to Outer Space" in NVIDIA

Opposition Leader said Labor was caught flat-footed and needed to create links with frontier labs on Australian soil.

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

ElevenLabs team member in Data Operations who worked on Cue, the forced alignment model.

Ani Mohan

Executive

product leader at Google Labs at Google

Represents NotebookLM team and discusses collaboration opportunities with publishers through Featured Notebooks.

Lead author of the systematic review on AI in art therapy

Cited researcher on consciousness and biological naturalism, arguing consciousness is likely substrate-dependent.

Developing TorchLean framework allowing language-model-driven agents to construct, test and repair formally checkable scientific artifacts.

Named as a specialist for scheduling a follow-up veterinary appointment in a demo prompt example

Anirudh Goyal

Researcher

Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-author on scaling test-time compute for coding agents.

Anish Athalye

Researcher

Handshake

Anish Athalye is a co-author of research studying label errors across 10 commonly-used datasets.

Anish Kattukaran

Executive

Chief Product Officer, Google Home & Nest at Google

Author of "Gemini for Home: Your household's new, more helpful assistant"

Anish Madan

Researcher

Research Associate at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University

Organizer of the CVPR 2025 Workshop Challenge on few-shot object detection

Anisha Gunjal

Researcher

ML at Scale AI

Co-authored research on Agentic Rubrics for software agent verification.

Anisha Sircar

Journalist

Tech Contributor at Forbes

Author of "Introducing Comet Plus" in Forbes

Anjul Bhambhri

Executive

Senior Vice President at Adobe

Adobe executive overseeing Netomi platform integration into Adobe's Brand Concierge agentic ecosystem.

Co-author on the VAKRA benchmark paper from IBM Research on evaluating agent reasoning.

Led adoption of workspace agents, which enabled Sales Consultant to build, evaluate, and iterate Sales Opportunity agent without engineering team support.

Anmol Agarwal is a lead author of a research paper on Verus-SpecGym, an agentic environment for evaluating specification autoformalization in AI coding agents.

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Author reporting on Huawei scientist's chip design strategy to overcome US tech bans.

Co-founder of Mixhalo, violinist, founded the real-time audio startup in 2016.

OpenAI lawyer quoted explaining the company's rationale for seeking to unmask funders of organizations critical of OpenAI.

Byline author reporting on Grok Build security issue where it was uploading entire Git repositories including unaccessed files, full commit history and API keys.

Lead author of the research paper noting applications for natural disaster and climate forecasting.

Global consumer and market insights lead provided analysis on sentiment differences between the two companies' ad campaigns.

AI auditor and author arguing AI oversight should not depend on companies voluntarily slowing down; proposes registration, incident reporting, and independent audits.

Barclays CFO who told reporters that around 60% of job cuts will impact support functions like developers, showing how AI is enabling headcount reduction in those roles.

Anna Grassellino

Researcher

Chief Technology Officer and Director of Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center at Fermilab

Grassellino explained how Fermilab used CUDA-Q Logical to accelerate fault-tolerant algorithm development from five months to three weeks.

VP of Business Development quoted on Figma's Dev Mode MCP server integration with GitHub Copilot for design-to-code workflows

Co-authored Nature paper on byte-level language models and tokenization research.

Checked essay on AI-generated content analysis for Pew Research Center.

Anna Makanju

Policy

Vice President of Global Impact at The OpenAI Foundation

A former Obama administration national security official hired by OpenAI to oversee its initial outreach to government officials and manage AI governance and policy matters.

Anna Nicolaou

Journalist

US Media Editor at Financial Times

Author of "The Music Industry Is Racing AI Before It Races Them"

Anna Paulina Luna

Politician

Congresswoman at United States House of Representatives

GOP Representative who called for Congress to convene a special session on AI.

Biochemist who used Google's Co-Scientist AI to generate novel strategies for targeting the MYC cancer protein.

Anna Rowlands

Other

Professor at Durham University

Theologian speaker at the Vatican launch of Magnifica Humanitas, the papal encyclical on AI.

Author reporting on LexisNexis opening NYC lab for legal AI tool development.

Anna Tong

Journalist

Journalist at Forbes

Forbes reporter who covered Cursor's internal shift and competitive pressures from AI model makers like Anthropic and OpenAI.

Anna Wang

Researcher

MTS on Anthropic Alignment at Anthropic

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Author of "Google's AI Is Rewriting Headlines, and It's Already Messy"

AI researcher commenting on Vidi2's benchmark-beating performance versus competitors

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

ARIA chief executive who announced the ban on wholly AI-generated music from charts, saying it gives artists clear rules to work to.

Her concept of 'LARPing your job' is referenced to describe performative productivity in the workplace.

Led Stellantis' collaboration with Wayve and NVIDIA on autonomous driving technology deployment in France.

Stated that Mistral could only remain independent if the French government backed it 'at every stage of its development'.

Author of "Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria" in MIT News

Stated that the rollout of ChatGPT Edu marks an exciting step in Oxford's digital transformation to harness AI for accelerating research and innovation to address global challenges.

Journalist covering MIT engineers' adaptive therapy robot for stroke rehabilitation.

Individual investor in humans& seed round

Conducted a hackathon study examining how different types of AI assistance affect team creativity.

Byline author of the article about AI's impact on scientific research and bottlenecks in discovery.

Lego's sustainability boss discussing the new recycled tyre material and the company's sustainability goals.

Annica Hagen was appointed as Saint-Gobain's first chief artificial intelligence officer in September, tasked with defining how AI can support the company's strategic plan.

Referenced in a simile created by Claude about hypothetical book topics

Highlighted strong public interest in Wayve autonomous rides for London with over 100,000 Londoners signing up to Interest List.

Author of 'Biological War: A Scenario' who warned about possibility of AI creating new pathogens or hacking labs containing dangerous pathogens.

Annie Surla

Creator

Hugging Face

Co-author of article on NVIDIA's open data initiatives for AI training pipelines.

Annie Vella

Researcher

software engineer

Co-authored longitudinal study on impact of AI coding assistants on software engineering.

Marketing founder discussing the paradox where platforms push AI adoption while penalizing AI-generated content and gender disparities in AI use.

Discussed Deepgram's partnership with Coval to ensure voice AI infrastructure quality.

Anoop Kotha

Engineer

Applied Evals at OpenAI

Co-authored GPT-5 prompting guide for OpenAI.

Byline author reporting on Ecosia search engine dropping Mistral AI partnership for open-source models.

One of the authors of the paper on reinforced generation of combinatorial structures

Ansh Nanda

Founder

Co-founder at vibecode

Ansh Nanda, co-founder of Vibecode, quoted discussing how Claude Managed Agents enables developers to spin up agent infrastructure 10x faster.

Anshu Chimala, who led software engineering and design teams at Apple for 12 years, shared detailed techniques and demonstrations for using AI models like Claude to create sophisticated product designs by pushing beyond default patterns.

Anshuman Mishra

Researcher

Machine Learning Engineer at Meta

Co-authored technical post on building AI agents from first principles, demonstrating how agent training reduces to prompt-model-environment-reward-gradient loop.

Co-author of AutoAdapt framework for domain adaptation at Microsoft Research.

Co-author of paper on Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models (Sigma)

Co-presented vision of AI-augmented education where the next generation must be trained to orchestrate a team of AIs.

Appointed as CFO of xAI and X, former Morgan Stanley banker who previously advised Musk on Twitter deal.

Anthony Baez contributed to developing an interpretability interface for helping users anticipate and understand model behavior.

Co-author of research on fractal basins in reasoning models and transient chaos during problem solving.

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Co-author of Inventing ELIZA, analyzing ELIZA's source code.

Anthony Castrovince

Journalist

MLB NETWORK

Author of "The MLB Will Now Let AI Call Balls And Strikes"

Security executive who cautioned against viewing AI as substitute for foundational security practices and emphasized need to operationalize advanced AI models effectively.

Anthony Hu

Engineer

Researcher and World Modeling Lead at General Intuition

Led GAIA-1 research at Wayve and now leads World Modeling at General Intuition.

Set to star in Peter Farrelly's Rocky making-of drama 'I Play Rocky.'

Anthony King

Researcher

Researcher at University of Exeter

Argued that fully autonomous attacks without humans in the loop may be less effective than many think and that keeping humans in the loop is both ethically right and militarily effective.

Coauthor of the study on gender threats and workplace deviance

Anthony Maggio

Executive

Chief Product Officer at Runway

Left Airtable after five and a half years to become CPO at Runway, focusing on AI video and world models.

USGA leader of the team that developed Rules AI, emphasizing the importance of human expertise and noting that the 25,000 question-answer pairs used are their competitive advantage.

Anthony Shew

Other

Leading Turborepo at Vercel

Vercel team member announcing Vercel CI in beta, a continuous integration system optimized for coding agents.

Historical example of an amateur scientist (politician) who laid foundation for modern chemistry

CEO and founder of Unite.AI who wrote open letter to Senator Sanders criticizing the broad definition of artificial superintelligence in proposed legislation.

Historical literary reference agreeing that intellect distinguishes humans from animals.

Anton Cherepanov

Researcher

Researcher at ESET

ESET researcher who discovered PromptLock, the first known AI-written ransomware, and discusses its capabilities and implications.

Partner at Black Operator Ventures mentioned as part of investor survey on AI labor impact.

Antonio A. Arechar

Researcher

PostDoc at Yale University

Author of "Large Language Models Can Effectively Convince People to Believe Conspiracies" on arXiv

Studies human contributors to artificial intelligence and social dynamics in rating consensus processes.

Co-authored joint statement warning about crossing a moral red line on autonomous targeting of humans by machines.

Founded Nori Robotics and designed the Nori L2, a low-cost bimanual robot.

Antonio Pequeño IV

Journalist

Breaking News Reporter at Forbes

Reported on Elon Musk's admission that xAI distilled OpenAI data for training models.

Co-author of paper on contrastive learning with natural images from MIT CSAIL.

Anubhav Mukherjee

Journalist

LiveMint

Author of "Liquidity Crunch" in LiveMint

NVIDIA researcher involved in developing Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety.

Anuj Mehndiratta

Executive

Founding Member at Thrive Holdings

Discusses Thrive Holdings' expansion into regulatory services for physical infrastructure with AI.

Anuj Saharan

Engineer

Employee at Meta

Anuj Saharan was an OpenAI employee who joined Meta as part of the broader reshuffle of personnel from OpenAI's infrastructure teams.

Co-authored announcement of NotebookLM's Deep Research feature for automating complex online research.

Tech-forward generalist at Every who is a consistent user of OpenAI's Atlas browser.

Anupam Jena

Researcher

Joseph P. Newhouse Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School

Led study of 950,000 clinicians using OpenEvidence AI tool, finding dramatic adoption and use outside specialties.

Board chair who left after new nine-year term limit rules; had previously resisted parent company pressure to remove her

Provided testimonial about using the advisor tool for structured document extraction with 5x lower cost while matching frontier-model quality.

Anuruddha Bhattacharjee

Researcher

Assistant Professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham

First author of research on magnetically-powered millirobots for heart infection treatment; former Johns Hopkins postdoctoral researcher.

Anush Elangovan

Executive

VP AI Software at AMD

VP AI Software at AMD, praises TorchComms for delivering fault-tolerant distributed communication across diverse hardware.

Founded Shapes, an app addressing AI psychosis by enabling group conversations with AI characters alongside humans.

Conducted research on how AI agents mirror power-asymmetric social dynamics and authority bias in conversations.

vLLM engineer assisting with RL training experiments and inference optimization.

Co-author of research on value-implicit policy optimization for improving LLM reasoning on math benchmarks.

Aparna Chennapragada

Executive

Chief Product Officer for AI Experiences at Microsoft

Describes 2026 as a new era for alliances between technology and people, emphasizing AI collaboration rather than replacement of humans.

Provided statement about the copyright lawsuit settlement and Anthropic's commitment to developing safe AI systems.

Co-founder of Avoca discussing AI voice automation for home services businesses and autonomous operations.

Federal judge who granted final approval of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors and publishers.

Aral De Moor is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report on MoE language model architecture and training.

Led negotiations on amending the EU AI Act to delay high-risk requirements and reduce overlapping regulations for AI providers.

Founded Graphon AI to build a pre-model intelligence layer for AI systems processing multimodal enterprise data.

Arber Zela

Researcher

Researcher at EPFL

Co-author of 'Neural Architecture Search: Insights from 1000 Papers'

Archa Jain

Researcher

Head of Life Sciences at Goodfire Research

Co-author at Goodfire Research contributing to the biomarker identification research

Published 'Jev's Architecture Unmasked' analyzing the architecture of TypeSafe's Jev decision model, which Kev-0.5B reproduces.

Author of "The Next Tech Correction Might Already Be Loading"

Korean-American actress who voiced main character Rumi and shared how the film's themes of self-acceptance mirrored her own life experience.

Baseten researcher who co-authored article on release of mammoth-1 and elephant-1 decision models.

Co-author on Kumo Relational research.

Co-author of arXiv systematic review on AI-generated code bugs.

Co-developer of WiFind, an AI-powered search-and-rescue system using Wi-Fi signals.

Ari Daniel

Journalist

Independent Science Reporter

Author of "Swiss Scientists Unveil a Detachable Robotic Hand"

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Co-authored research paper on I-HITL (Inalienable Human-in-the-Loop) protocols for AI safety and agent guardrails.

CEO and co-founder of Quantifind, which raised $200M for AI-native Risk Intelligence to detect financial crime.

Co-host with Reid Hoffman on Possible podcast discussing AI tutoring capabilities.

Co-founder discussed Percepto's autonomous drone inspection technology and FAA canopy waiver enabling BVLOS missions across Chevron's assets.

Co-authored sandbox escape research demonstrating vulnerabilities in AI coding agents.

Ariel Herbert-Voss

Researcher

Founder and CEO at RunSybil

Herbert-Voss, formerly at OpenAI, discussed how AI worms differ from typical viruses because AI models can learn as they adapt, and cybersecurity infrastructure is unprepared.

Byline author reporting on Meta layoffs across multiple divisions as the company pivots toward AI.

CEO and co-founder of Coefficient Bio, an AI biotech startup acquired by Anthropic for $400 million, previously served as chief business officer at Evozyne and vice president at Paragon Biosciences.

Chief Science Officer at Wispr working on the Advanced Interfaces Lab team.

Co-led research team developing TRACE method to identify ghost lineages of archaic ancestors in modern human DNA.

Thanked for work on quantum circuits research

Co-author of Robostral Navigate paper on single-camera AI navigation for robots.

Arjun Mathur, co-founder of Dream, previously served as senior vice president at Palantir and is building AI systems for architecture and engineering.

Arjun Ramani

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Discussed ideas and reviewed drafts for Zhengdong Wang's annual letter on AI progress.

Arkady Dvorkovich

Executive

President at FIDE

Russian chess leader facing EU visa sanctions for pro-war statements.

Lead author of the 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report studying data center electricity consumption and future demand projections.

Armen Aghajanyan

Founder

Co-founder at Perceptron

Former Meta FAIR researcher co-founded Perceptron to develop frontier vision models for industrial robotics.

Co-author on rare earth supply chain research mentioned at article end

Arnaud Autef

Engineer

Distillation Tech Lead at Google DeepMind

Arnaud Autef released Gemini 3 Flash as his first release in the role of distillation TL, describing it as a huge success.

Research on how U.S. tariffs adjust relative prices between domestic exports and foreign imports

Co-author of JOLT joint on-policy learning and teaching method.

Co-authored the AgentRx framework paper on systematic debugging for AI agents.