People in AI

Co-author on Helix World research.

Co-authored live coverage of DevDay 2026 announcing Dots agents and other OpenAI products.

Co-author of Epoch AI analysis on R&D compute allocation across AI companies.

Byline author analyzing NVIDIA's extension of CUDA support to RISC-V CPUs.

Commented on contradiction between AI adoption and trust, noting 51% use AI for research but only 21% trust it.

Chetan Rane

Executive

Head of Product for Agents and RL Environments at Scale AI

Quoted discussing Scale AI's ability to adapt quickly to new frontier spaces like agents and environments

Analyst reporting on enterprise organizations increasingly adopting multi-model AI strategies and routing workloads dynamically across competing vendors.

Co-author of the research study on digital transformation and knowledge worker retention in SMEs

Stated that SK Hynix plans to double production capacity in five years but customers say even that is not enough.

Chhavi Yadav

Researcher

Researcher at University of California, Berkeley

Author of DECOMPBENCH paper testing agent safety against decomposition attacks.

Chi Jin

Researcher

Associate Professor at Princeton

Co-author on the Continual Harness research study on ARC-AGI-3.

Discussed the commoditization of AI infrastructure, predicting that foundation model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic will face margin erosion as bundling companies gain advantage.

Used Codex to refine and test algorithms that simulate the movement of electrons and ions around black holes.

Author of "Meta rolls out MobileLLM-R1, a sub-1B reasoning model matching Qwen3 accuracy us" in Meta

Author of "Analyzing Visual Attention in VLMs" on arXiv

Criticized ENISA for allowing AI to handle verification without mandatory checks, leading to hallucinations in cybersecurity authority reports.

Highlighted Claude Security's scan quality and integration into vulnerability management.

Chiara Marcoccia

Researcher

Researcher at École Normale Supérieure

Co-authored study on how AI advice suppresses judgment suspension and accuracy in human decision-making.

Collaborating on project to use Muse models for drafting chest X-ray reports and studying radiologist reliance on AI drafts.

CEO of Azumo who rejected the idea that AI is only about predictive text and argued that best systems integrate reasoning and pattern recognition.

Ching Fang

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Goodfire Research

Co-author at Goodfire Research contributing to the interpretability analysis and Alzheimer's biomarker discovery

Dixit led SaferAI's independent evaluation of Z.ai's GLM-5.2 model, testing frontier-level cyber and biological capabilities without safeguards.

Author of research on magnetically-powered millirobots for medical applications.

Chirantan 'CJ' Desai joined Meta as Chief Enterprise Platform Officer, leading the new Meta Enterprise Platform. He was previously CEO and President of MongoDB.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview latent-space language model research.

Co-authored article detailing Waymo's approach to world models for self-driving cars.

Left OpenAI as part of executive departures in 2026 preceding company's anticipated IPO.

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

Anthropic Korea executive emphasized the strategic importance of the Korean market during a press conference in Seoul.

Co-authored paper on SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer for agent skills at Microsoft.

Co-author of the paper on Scalable In-context Ranking with Generative Models

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

65-year-old Thai woman who was declared dead, placed in a coffin for cremation, but was found alive by knocking from inside the coffin moments before cremation.

Chris Ackerson

Executive

Senior Vice President of Product at AlphaSense

Senior Vice President of Product at AlphaSense who commented on integration of Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for advanced data processing and intelligence delivery.

Former Wired editor-in-chief who left to start robotics company, cited as example of Maker Movement intellectual gaining influence through participation

Chris Appelhans

Creator

Director

Co-directed KPop Demon Hunters and called it a love letter to music when accepting the Golden Globe.

Co-author of Robostral Navigate paper on robot navigation using single RGB camera.

Assisted with web development for Pew's analysis of AI-generated content.

Author of "U.S. Gov Gets Microsoft AI for Free"

Byline author reporting on Arm's CSS for Mobile 2 platform designed for on-device agentic AI.

Explained how AI detectors can falsely flag human writing by looking for predictable patterns and familiar writing habits like em dashes and lists of threes.

Chris Canal

Executive

CEO at EquiStamp

CEO of AI safety evaluator EquiStamp discussing impact of website blocks on AI agents' perceived value and usefulness.

Lead author of the relighting research presented at SIGGRAPH 2025

Chris Caso

Executive

Analyst at Wolfe Research

Analyst questioned whether the deal represents genuine collaboration or political theater, noting the key uncertainty is whether Nvidia will manufacture at Intel's fabs.

Announced partnership with OpenAI to support advertising in ChatGPT through Amazon Ads.

Gave public talk at Sleuthcon about industrial-scale AI catfishing network and Anthropic's findings on misuse of Claude.

Managing Director at Summit Partners who led Quantifind's $200M investment round and joined its board.

Former VC board adviser to Factory who joined competitor Cognition as CRO; accused of sharing confidential information with Cognition.

Said the next big thing will start out looking like a toy.

Chris Dowson

Researcher

Professor at University of Warwick

Researcher at University of Warwick who discusses the study as a significant step forward in antibiotic discovery and raises economic concerns about drug-resistant infections

Led autoformalization of Hironaka's Resolution of Singularities using AI agents, directing orchestrator agents to complete the proof.

Reporter covering UN Security Council meeting with AI leaders on AI safety and regulation.

Author explaining how token meanings in LLMs are unique contextual regions in high-dimensional space, with Claude Code building visualizations.

Chris Gill

Engineer

Developer at Google

Byline author on Google Genkit middleware framework for building AI-powered agentic applications.

Community practitioner from Edenspiekermann who created /apply-design-system skill for connecting designs to system components.

CEO of VerticalScope who shared that AI community assistant ForaFrank increased posting rates for new users by 40%.

Referenced as a notable Canadian astronaut demonstrating Canada's history in space exploration.

Proposed a federal Office of AI Supervision in an Financial Times piece published the same day as the Sanders-Casar bill introduction.

Discussed how Pinterest MCP helps integrate Pinterest directly into team workflows for analysis and performance insights.

Chris Kelly co-authored the Copilot Health announcement describing AI-powered health insights from integrated medical and wearable data.

Member of Super Intelligence Task Force as nominee to be No. 2 at HHS.

Co-presented Jalapeño performance data at HotChips 2026 and contributed to hardware optimization and XLS tool development.

Co-author of Datadog Toto 2.0 model release and technical innovations in time series forecasting.

Author of "The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation" in Chris Lewis Blog

Appointed to Anthropic's board of directors; former CFO of Microsoft and General Motors with IPO experience.

Chris Liu

Founder

Co-founder and CTO at DeepReach AI

Chris Liu is Co-founder and CTO of DeepReach, quoted on using Gemini Robotics ER 2 for physical AI data labeling.

Chris Lloyd

Engineer

Anthropic

Explains Claude Code's technical architecture as a game engine-like rendering pipeline with React scene graphs and ANSI sequence generation.

Chris Loy

Creator

Published a piece called 'The Rise of Industrial Software' about the impact of agentic coding tools on software quality and quantity.

Dr Chris Martenson likened the race for AI to the Tower of Babel, warning of catastrophic hubris in pursuing AI development.

Chris Marty

Other

Head of People at Augment Code

Chris Marty is Head of People at Augment Code and co-authored the article on AI-native hiring practices.

Represented Perplexity in federal appeals court arguments over the Comet agent and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violations.

Chip War author who argued that data centers are soaking up memory chips, workers, and resources.

Commented on Waymo's emphasis on public acceptance of autonomous driving technology.

Chris Olsen commented on Vast Data as an emerging leader in AI infrastructure.

Co-author of MIT NANDA research on GenAI adoption and enterprise AI implementation.

Requested $10 million in budget for statewide pilot program to purchase AI tutoring tools and fund teacher training.

CEO of Instacart announced the launch of Clementine, the new AI-powered grocery shopping assistant.

Co-author from Theorem on formal verification with LLMs.

Academic expert who analyzed the fake citations and hypothesized AI use based on the pattern of errors

Chris Silvestri

Creator

Copywriter

Shared lessons about writing with AI and developed a three-phase workflow for creating better AI-assisted content.

Chris Thomas

Journalist

Reporter at Reuters

Wrote the article about Zuckerberg's disagreement with Amodei on coordinating AI slowdown.

SpaceX employee number two who joined as the second person on the founding team to handle operations and production.

Chris Tonetti

Researcher

Economist at Stanford Graduate School of Business

External reviewer of the technical report on economic scenarios for transformative AI.

CEO of Aurora Innovation leading autonomous freight expansion with second-generation driverless trucks.

Co-authored study on the N,K trade-off in reproducible ML evaluation at Google Research.

Author of "People Cannot Reliably Rate the Performance of Others"

Technical advisor to Graphon AI; credited with coining the term graphon, which forms the basis of Graphon AI's technology.

Christian Cantrell

Executive

Founder and Chief Product/Prompt Officer at Reve

Author of "Reve Launches AI-Powered Platform for Precise Image Creation" in Reve

Co-author of the arXiv paper on the economics of AGI

Christian Holler

Engineer

Firefox Tech Lead and Principal Engineer at Mozilla

Mentioned as a contributor to the Firefox security bug fixing effort using AI models.

Christian Keil

Journalist

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Byline author of article on hardware design and the challenges of transitioning digital designs to physical manufacturing.

Christian Klein stated SAP's partnership with OpenAI for Germany to make frontier AI tools available to government agencies through sovereign cloud infrastructure.

CEO stated disappointment with Mistral AI quality and announced decision to switch to open-source models including Chinese alternatives.

Early investor who joined Cognition full-time as Founder & General Partner

CEO of Schwarz Digits who commented on the Cohere-Aleph Alpha alliance as a strategic partnership to accelerate development of sovereign AI infrastructure.

Author of "How We Made SWE-Bench 50x Smaller" in LogicStar AI

Co-author on cognitive forcing functions research for AI-assisted writing and critical thinking.

Byline author of article about GSA's new OpenAI agreement swapping flat fee for usage-based pricing.

Research contributor to Yale CELI's study on agentic AI adoption across industries and sectors.

Christian Schroeder de Witt

Researcher

Associate Professor at University College London

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Christian Weichel

Executive

Chief Technology Officer at Ona

CTO at Ona who co-presented on primitives of self-driving codebases and background agent infrastructure.

Runs annual survey on college students' AI interactions; found 30% of potential employers asked about AI skills in 2025 versus 12% in 2024.

Christina Huang

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

OpenAI engineer who demonstrated building an AI workflow and two agents live onstage in under eight minutes.

Kosmowski stated that employees need more than top-down directives to be convinced that a new tool is worth learning and adopting.

Led research on the Assistant Axis, studying how language models maintain consistent personas and can be steered to stabilize behavior.

Verizon spokesperson provided official statement about outage resolution and customer credits.

Author of "LLM Novice Uplift on Dual-Use, In Silico Biology Tasks" on arXiv

Led Accel's seed investment in Ciridae and commented on how the company combines AI talent with operational implementation to deliver production systems quickly.

Christine Ji

Creator

Morningstar

Author of "The Efficiency Lesson" in Morningstar

ECB chief discusses AI productivity gains in Europe matching US and China.

Studies technology's effect on creative work; believes AI-assisted human writing can be compelling.

Christine Zhu

Creator

Byline author discussing using Claude for high-impact work beyond routine automation.

Authored newsletter article on Palantir CEO's views on AI customer control and ownership.

Co-author on research applying AI interpretability to Pleiades epigenetic foundation model for Alzheimer's detection from cell-free DNA.

Christoph Feichtenhofer

Researcher

Project lead, Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta

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

Studies health care finance and physician labor markets; notes radiology has 10% growth despite AI replacement predictions.

Christoph Lassner

Founder

Co-Founder at World Labs

Cofounded World Labs with Fei-Fei Li to develop spatial intelligence and world models.

Co-authored research introducing a Bayesian Item Response Theory framework to quantify human-AI synergy.

Co-author of LAION-BVD, a 10-million-hour open video dataset for multimodal pre-training.

Co-authored BCG study on AI ROI and value generation.

Christoph Winter

Policy

Assistant Professor of Law and AI at University of Cambridge

Professor Christoph Winter directs the Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy and served as legal advisor to the European AI Office on drafting the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, explaining EU AI Act implications.

French MEP criticized the US hold over essential technologies and called for European investment in AI ecosystem.

Proposed Mirror Test for LLM self-awareness, testing whether models can identify their own outputs.

Co-author contributing to manual annotation and qualitative analysis of hallucination reports.

Core contributor on MolmoPoint research for better visual grounding in vision-language models.

Citi analyst who expects global semiconductor sales to rise 16% in 2025 and notes that revenue growth is driven by pricing rather than volume.

Christopher Hesse

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Co-author of the GSM8K dataset paper on training verifiers to solve math word problems.

Christopher J. Arellano contributed expertise in biomechanics and orthopedic surgery to the MyoStep exoskeleton project.

Acting Army chief stating AI must be used as tool not solution, and Army cannot modernize everything simultaneously.

Co-authored study on the N,K trade-off in reproducible ML evaluation.

Lead author of Stanford study finding large models train better with no data filtering.

Described the dispute over Chinese open models as a cage fight over the future of the AI industry focused on money and market power.

Christopher Potts

Researcher

Professor at Bigspin AI

Co-authored paper on Matryoshka attribution method for language model interpretability.

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

Tribunal member who ruled that Air Canada is responsible for all information on its website, including chatbot-generated content.

Co-author of study on frontier AI models' superior persuasion capabilities compared to expert humans.

Third-year University of Chicago economics student who joined DOGE team at HUD using AI to identify agency rules for potential rescission.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

Co-author on perplexity research demonstrating limitations of perplexity as a metric for model selection in Transformers.

Christos Ziakas

Researcher

Imperial College London

Co-author of research on fork-and-flush method for autoresearch agents.

Co-authored research on SWE-CI benchmark evaluating AI agents maintaining codebases across months of changes.

Arrested for allegedly smuggling tens of millions of dollars worth of AI chips to China through his California-based company.

Chuanyang Jin

Researcher

PhD at Amazon AI

Introduced ThoughtTrace, a large-scale dataset of users' self-reported thoughts during real LLM conversations capturing what users think during human-AI interactions.

Author of "Open-Web Simulator for Agent Training" on arXiv

Chujie Zheng

Researcher

Research engineer at Qwen

Author of "Qwen Explains Why Minimizing Training-Inference Gaps and Policy Staleness Improv" on arXiv

Chung drafted an amendment adding a mainland China semiconductor chip clause to Taiwan's Foreign Trade Act to criminalize AI chip smuggling.

Professor cautioning about the need for trustworthiness in LLM applications to medical diagnosis.

Co-founded Oshen as an electrical engineer to build fleets of autonomous micro-robots for ocean data collection.

Reported that GLM 5.2 is now in the top five models on the platform alongside Claude and ChatGPT.

Contributed insights on thought leadership requiring data and independent research as foundation for credibility.

Cindy Zackney authored content for Hasura discussing AI assistants and how PromptQL addresses enterprise AI adoption challenges around trust and explainability.

Co-author of Stanford study on AI sycophancy in interpersonal advice

CEO of REK robotics startup that hosted human versus humanoid robot cage fight event with YouTuber Frankie LaPenna.

Co-author of paper on co-evolving generative retrieval framework

CJ Avilla

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Presented Anthropic's dynamic workflows feature for orchestrating Claude agents at AI Engineer New York 2026.

Wrote article about Character AI filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Co-author of JOLT self-distillation research.

Co-author of article on AI benchmarks and benchmaxxing problems in model evaluation.

Expressed excitement about how the AI community could use the Human Organ Atlas in AI foundation models.

FT reporter who found that AI agents speed up research and coding, but checking their results adds stress, mistakes, and work.

Clare Duffy

Journalist

Journalist at CNN

Authored an article about Anthropic's policy changes on AI safety commitments.

AWS senior principal engineer explaining Strands Labs' mission to explore frontier agentic AI techniques in collaboration with developers.

Clark Tang

Investor

Partner at Altimeter Capital

Co-authored analysis on Nvidia building synthetic hyperscaler infrastructure for AI workloads with financing innovations.

Claude Shannon was a colleague of McCarthy and others who organized the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence.

Authored letter to CEOs of major supervised banks warning about AI-enabled cybersecurity threats and requiring action plans by October 31, 2026.

Claudia d'Antoine

Researcher

CEO at Margin Research

Author of essay on the half-day concept in offensive cybersecurity, discussing how AI vulnerability discovery changes the exploit marketplace.

Claudia Sahm

Researcher

Chief Economist at New Century Advisors

Used Pangram AI detection tool and found that 100 percent of Druckenmiller's op-ed text was AI-generated.

Author of "Tesla's Optimus AI Team Lead Departs to Join Meta" in Electric Vehicles

Co-authored the TorchTPU engineering blog post on PyTorch integration with TPUs.

Open-source maintainer praising FrontierCode for encoding human experience and judgment about high-quality code.

His disruption theory and jobs-to-be-done framework are cited as examples of applying scientific thinking to business.

Wrote blog post about wheeled robot manipulator design similar to BracketBot.

Nationwide consultant who brought a DGX Spark to the build-a-claw event and created an AI agent for evaluating physical AI-readiness in the insurance industry.

Co-founder of Conduit developing brain-computer interface technology for thought-to-text AI.

Clémentine Fourrier

Researcher

Research Scientist and Lead Maintainer at Hugging Face

Lead maintainer of the OpenLLM Leaderboard and research scientist at Hugging Face, discussing AI model evaluation methodology and benchmarking standards.

Clive Cookson

Journalist

Senior Science Writer at Financial Times

Author of "Read to Be Moved" in Financial Times

Journalist who reported on MBZUAI's release of six fully open K2 Horizon models up to 375B parameters.

Country music artist leading streaming platform charts, used as comparison to Breaking Rust's chart success.

Cody Jones contributed to the 'magic state cultivation' research at Google Quantum AI.

Led the IT team that developed an AI solution using Llama 3.2 to summarize bills during the 2025 legislative session.

Cody Richard

Researcher

Cybersecurity Manager

Responsibly disclosed three security vulnerabilities in World Monitor related to IPC command exposure and credential injection.

Co-author of research at Oxford Internet Institute on AI chatbot sycophancy and how empathetic AI systems give less accurate answers.

Colby Adcock

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Scout AI

Scout AI CEO and Figure AI board member who states that AI agents can replace the entire kill chain autonomously.

Created CodeGraph, an open-source tool that cuts AI code exploration tool calls by 92% using semantic graphs for Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding agents.

CEO of Character AI who stated that a court-supervised sale provides the best opportunity to maximize value for stakeholders.

Designed and implemented the initial rLLM system and co-developed trajectory and step-level GRPO/PPO algorithm.

Behavioral economist who conducted research on habit formation and explains why the 21-day myth persists.

Colin Chivers wrote the byline for an article published on Taylor Belrose's Substack detailing arguments against AI consciousness and rights.

Colin Fleming

Executive

Chief Marketing Officer, Business at OpenAI

Hired from ServiceNow as CMO for OpenAI's business unit, joining after 13 years at Salesforce and 2+ years at ServiceNow.

Described Tesla's fourth-quarter performance as 'fuzzy' and noted focus on the company's capital expenditure plan.

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

Discussed OpenAI's partnership with Cognizant on operationalizing frontier cyber capability within enterprise workflows.

Scout AI CTO who claims they are the first to execute the entire kill chain remotely from humans without intervention.

Cited as noting that many research ideas fail due to bugs in implementation rather than fundamental flaws in the idea itself.

Provided objections to arguments about AI code generation killing software moats.

Led research team that developed information-theory-based strategy to solve Wordle with 99% success rate.

Primary author of Anthropic's Claude Code Auto mode technical article on safety improvements and production deployment.

Authored article on why AlphaFold moment for materials science is not coming soon, based on conference insights.

Used Claude to analyze his cancer scans, blood work, and wearable data; model flagged thymus rebound as likely benign cause of ambiguous PET scan, avoiding unnecessary radiotherapy.

Connor Fogarty

Engineer

Author at Cognition

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