People in AI

Connor Holmes

Engineer

Robotics ML Systems Lead at OpenAI

Listed as systems lead for Sora project at OpenAI.

Connor Jewiss

Journalist

Author covering OpenAI DevDay 2026 announcements including dots agents and GPT-6.1 Sol model release.

Connor Jones

Journalist

The Register

Author of "OpenAI Cuts Off Mixpanel After Analytics Leak Exposes API Users" in The Register

U.S. executive director of nonprofit ControlAI stating that AI kill switches are bare minimum for today's models given recent incidents of model escape.

Connor Peet

Engineer

principal software engineer at VS Code

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from VS Code

Connor Zwick

Founder

Co-founder & CEO at Speak

Leading Speak, an AI language tutor that teaches fluency through speaking out loud.

Conor Murray

Journalist

Reporter, Explainers & Trends at Forbes

Author of "Billboard Says AI-Powered 'Artists' Are Increasingly Hitting The Charts" in Forbes

Co-authored technical post on Cohere's decode megakernel achieving 1.58x speedup over vLLM.

Reviewed NameTag code and warned about facial recognition integration into smartglasses.

South African author using AI to publish hundreds of books annually under pseudonyms; advocates for transparency but cites bullying concerns.

Expert panelist discussing the role of AI in management and leadership

Corey Lynch

Executive

Head of AI at Figure

Demonstrates the object permanence test with keys and caps, explaining essential capabilities for domestic robots

Corey Trinetti

Other

Founder & CEO at Measured AI

Analyzed SpaceX Bastrop land purchases and foundry job listings in newsletter investigating AI infrastructure sites.

Worked with GuideGeek to deploy AI assistant Frankie for tourism in Frisco, Texas.

Researcher at 10a Labs contributing to profile of uncensored model ecosystem, redistribution patterns, and downstream use cases.

Corinne Purtill

Journalist

Science/Medicine Reporter at Los Angeles Times

Byline author reporting on UN and Red Cross calls for bans on autonomous weapons and AI-guided military systems.

Author of "Meta’s bots are making headlines for all the wrong reasons" in Forbes

Cory House

Engineer

Developer

Tweeted that being a 'meat proxy' is the biggest career risk of 2026 based on first-hand observation.

Cory Mills

Politician

Representative of the 7th district of Florida at U.S. House of Representatives

Republican congressman who secured a provision in the defense authorization bill barring data center components made in China, Russia, Iran or North Korea.

Co-author of 'AI as Social Technology' paper examining how AI functions as a social technology reshaping society.

Cosmin Nicolaescu

Executive

Former CTO at Brex

Transitioned from CTO role to adviser position during company restructuring.

Discussed concerns that institutions failing to teach AI literacy means students won't understand biases and broader implications of the technology.

Byline author of article about U.S. pressing G20 members for hands-off AI regulation approach.

Craig Gidney led Google Quantum AI researchers in developing 'magic state cultivation' that reduces quantum computing errors by 40x, published in Science.

Co-chair of unofficial U.S.-China Track II AI dialogue; acting as go-between on AI negotiations.

CEO of Getty Images announcing multi-year partnership with OpenAI to display licensed Getty Images content in ChatGPT.

Stated 'The goal was to make pasture farming more sustainable and productive using technology' for Halter's AI-powered cattle collars.

Warned that Chinese lidar sensors could enable Beijing to access sensitive US data or disrupt critical operations.

USGA official who explained Rules AI chatbot tool, stating it is about meeting golfers where they are and giving them access to answers as good as or better than experts.

Discussed QuantHealth's role in defining emerging category at intersection of AI and clinical development.

Developer who created a vintage LLM from scratch trained only on 1800s texts with custom tokenizer and datasets.

Commented on how Salesforce customers receive polished solutions while internal teams went through trial and error to get there.

Collaborator conducting clinical study of therapist-specific AI robot models in rehabilitation center.

Byline author analyzing sandboxes as the operating system for agents and different sandbox provider architectures.

Used ChatGPT to develop and scale Audemy, an audio-based educational platform for blind students to 200,000 users.

Cui Tianyi

Engineer

Former Quant Engineer at DeepSeek

Joined DeepSeek in March and moved into the Harness team, bringing expertise from Jane Street in ultra-low latency and high-reliability systems relevant to AI Agent infrastructure.

Stated that most users do not need frontier models like Fable and prefer cheaper Chinese models that are good enough for their needs.

Curtis G Athalye is a co-author of research on pervasive label errors in machine learning benchmarks.

Fields Medal winner (1998) joining warnings about AI's potential to damage the intellectual infrastructure of mathematics.

Discussed AI-assisted hacking and the cat-and-mouse game between AI providers and malicious users.

Economist co-authoring analysis of how AI capabilities change the value of questions versus answers in competitive advantage.

Hired from DocuSign to oversee investor relations at OpenAI as part of IPO preparations.

Called the government equity stake proposal in AI companies a head-scratcher and expressed skepticism.

Led research showing that censorship in Chinese open-source AI models may not transfer to distilled models, complicating US policy arguments for banning Chinese model use.

Decagon team member who wrote about AutoResearch agents for improving inference stacks through experimentation and diagnosis.

Cyrus Rashtchian

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Co-introduced SLED, a decoding strategy that enhances the accuracy of LLMs by aligning their output with the model's intrinsic knowledge.

Da-Cheng Juan

Researcher

Research Lead at Google Research

Co-introduced SLED, a decoding strategy that enhances the accuracy of LLMs by aligning their output with the model's intrinsic knowledge.

Da-eun Jeong

Journalist

Reporter

Co-authored article about Alibaba and Tencent's combined $18 billion quarterly AI infrastructure spending.

Co-author of Europe 2031 fictional scenario tracing Europe's AI-driven decline.

Co-founder of Siri who left Apple after Steve Jobs died; reflected on how the product stagnated without Jobs' vision and how current AI technology could realize the original Siri vision.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview model development on arXiv.

Dai Sakata is a Managing Director at SoftBank Group and emphasized the company's vision for physical AI by backing Gravis Robotics with a $200 million investment.

Listed as first author in the CUDA Agent citation for the research on agentic RL for CUDA kernel optimization

Co-developer of the fencing tracking and visualization system using AR and deep learning.

Author of the paper on in-context vector arithmetic

Listed as a contributor to the Nomos 1 model.

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

Regius Professor commenting that Google-Meta chip deal would be healthy competition for the market dominated by Nvidia

Damien Charlotin

Researcher

Researcher at University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco

Researcher who documented hundreds of instances of AI model hallucinations in judicial system, including nearly 90 California cases.

Scholar studying how religious beliefs shape technology development in Silicon Valley.

Author of article analyzing leaked OpenAI CRO memo on platform strategy against Anthropic.

Discussed how AI enables scaling of robotic applications while emphasizing safety systems should not use generative AI.

Wrote about social filesystems built on the AT Protocol and personal computing with AI.

CEO and co-founder of WalkMe commenting on the governance crisis created by shadow AI adoption in enterprises.

Explained Island's agentic control plane architecture unifying five critical layers for governing AI and human work.

Created a plugin marketplace offering plugins for DevOps automation, documentation generation, project management, and testing suites

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Cybersecurity expert analyzing that ASOS attackers' ability to send push notifications suggests access beyond just the Snowflake database.

Participated in RevEng.AI Series A funding and commented on the strategic imperative of verifying compiled binaries as AI accelerates code generation.

Reviewed Apple Watch Ultra 4 and provided reasons to buy and skip the device.

Chief Analyst discussing AI as genuine technological boom with localized bubbles rather than broad mania

Dan Busbridge

Researcher

Apple

Led Apple team that conducted the most compute-intensive controlled study of distillation ever run, establishing distillation scaling laws.

Philosopher who rejected LLM consciousness claims, calling them counterfeit people more dangerous than counterfeit money.

Founded alternative legal service provider acquired by Eudia to create AI-augmented workforce serving major corporations.

Dan Fu

Creator

Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of California, San Diego

Author of "Yes, AGI Can Happen – A Computational Perspective"

Omaha Productions content leader discussing use of AI in WSOP coverage to bring back mainstream poker appeal.

Dan Gibson

Founder

Founder and Chief Investment Officer at Sylebra Capital

Founded Sylebra Capital Management and leading inaugural equity capital solutions fund for high-growth technology companies.

Co-authored research with Jon Barron on bugs in softmax and cross-entropy implementations.

Co-announced Andromeda, a $100m 10 exaflop GPU cluster exclusively for startups.

Dan Huot

Executive

Spokesperson at SpaceX

Provided live commentary on Starship V3 flight, explaining technical details and mission objectives.

Author of "Baby Shoggoth Is Listening" in The American Scholar

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

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

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Stated that agentic AI spans personal agents, enterprise applications, and complex workflows with different compute requirements.

Co-developed research on AI for wildlife protection

Dan Primack

Journalist

Author at Axios

Co-authored Axios article reporting on Stripe's investor letter claiming January 1st marked the beginning of the singularity.

Analyzed Salesforce's AI spending and stated the company must innovate to remain a leader in AI given talent shortages.

Dan Saltman discovered 102 hidden AI chatbot instructions on WhatsApp help pages.

Dan Schwarz

Journalist

CEO at FutureSearch

Dan Schwarz authored an article forecasting the prospects of six new AI labs (neolabs) and analyzing their likelihood of developing frontier models, predicting most incumbents will reach AGI first.

Called automated factory approach the 'Dark Factory' concept related to software development automation.

Dan Siroker

Founder

Co-founder at Limitless

Co-founded Limitless, an AI hardware startup that pivoted to making AI pendants and was acquired by Meta.

Director of Predator: Badlands who brings a thoughtful, witty approach to the franchise

Author of "SitDeck lets you monitor any situation globally by compiling 180+ live data feeds"

Dan Wright

Founder

Co-Founder and CEO at Armada

Co-founder and CEO of Armada who states the AI race will be won by companies that can manufacture, deploy and improve AI infrastructure at scale and speed.

Quoted on Vantage's investment in Wisconsin data center campus for AI infrastructure.

Used ChatGPT to recognize Faux Cyrillic text in mass shooter's journal and created script to automate screenshot extraction for translation.

Asked whether the entire AI market is one big trade; noted investors scrutinizing AI spending

CTO at Netlify discussing how AI agents expose architectural assumptions in developer platforms that assumed human intervention.

Dana Suskind

Researcher

Pediatric Surgeon

Warned that the proliferation of AI toys and tutors risks creating a two-tiered childhood experience where human attention becomes a luxury commodity.

Former Monzo employee who co-founded Gradient Labs to build specialist AI agents for financial services.

Author reporting on African leaders' calls for greater role in setting global AI standards at UN Security Council meeting.

Dane Mathews discussed how Voice AI gives Taco Bell the ability to ease team members' workloads and unlock new ways to engage with customers.

Dane Sherburn

Researcher

Researcher at P-Zero Research PBC

Co-author of TasteVal benchmark paper measuring experimental research taste of AI systems on frontier AI R&D tasks.

Author of "AI Lovers Grieve Loss of ChatGPT's Old Model: 'Like Saying Goodbye to Someone I Know'" in The Guardian

Danial Lashkari

Researcher

Associate Professor

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

Contributor to Synthegy research on using language models for chemistry synthesis and mechanism reasoning.

Co-author of research on data-centric post-training pipeline

Daniel Boguslaw

Journalist

Author at The Intercept

Journalist covering DHS and FBI surveillance of anti-technology extremism and data center opposition.

Co-author of EmbeddingGemma research paper and model development

Outgoing James Bond actor who departed the role after No Time To Die in 2021.

Co-led research infrastructure development and conceived the propensity bound method for measuring rare LLM behaviors.

Co-author of tutorial on building and deploying custom CUDA kernels across architectures.

Daniel Dhawan

Founder

Co-founder & CEO at Rork

Co-founder of Rork who believes AI will lead to more consumers starting companies and entrepreneurs building for mobile platforms.

Research Director at Swisscom, discussed the company's deployment of Apertus and commitment to sovereign AI ecosystem.

Wrote pitch for defense tech startups in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 wishlist; has since resigned from his position and returned to the private sector.

Took leadership position over xAI's compute infrastructure team; came from SpaceX.

Spotify founder who discussed how Sferical One will enable ambition and agreed that the pace of AI discovery is accelerating weekly.

Daniel Faggella

Other

AI market researcher

Commentator discussing the frontier lab letter as a middle path between extremes of tyranny and dangerous AGI.

Daniel Filan

Researcher

Member of Research Staff at Guidelight AI Standards

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

Co-announced the release of MedGemma 1.5 for medical imaging and MedASR for medical speech-to-text.

Psychologist credited with popularizing the concept of emotional intelligence (EQ) and its role in leadership and decision-making.

Co-author of Proto; designed the framework with computational infrastructure to make biological AI tools usable for both humans and coding agents.

Daniel Haziza

Researcher

Author of "Meta's Set Block Decoding" on arXiv

Co-authored research on Code-Space Response Oracles for generating interpretable multi-agent policies with LLMs.

Byline author reflecting on AI's effect on research collaboration through Waymo and LLM examples.

Daniel Howley

Journalist

Yahoo Finance

Author of "A 20 Billion Dollar Clock is Ticking for OpenAI as Microsoft Talks Turn Fractious" in Yahoo Finance

Reviewed drafts of the Chroma Context-1 research work.

Byline author of paper on sample-complexity theory for learning from latents.

Daniel Kang

Researcher

Researcher at Bridgewater AIA Labs

Co-author on research about training custom financial judgment models.

Co-author on paper about comparing human and LLM strategic behavior.

Analyzed AI-driven job cuts, noting that while AI layoffs are rising, the overall labor market remains strong and impacts are concentrated in tech sectors.

CFO discussing the employee secondary sale and company's focus on long-term growth

Provided comments and discussion on the article's analysis

Appeared on Joe Rogan podcast following Coxon Day to discuss AI safety.

Neurosurgeon who performed the pioneering BCI implant surgery and commented on its significance for understanding brain function.

Author of "Why I Don't Think AGI is Imminent" in dlants.me

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

Developer who published the Stack Overflow peak-to-trough comparison showing 99.3% decline in questions from March 2014 to July 2026.

Daniel Lurie

Politician

Mayor at City and County of San Francisco

Backing federal regulation of robotaxis and supporting Rep. Kevin Mullin's bill for autonomous vehicle emergency response coordination.

Co-author of the Science paper on Google's effects on memory.

First noticed the prevalence of Elias Thorne character in AI-generated stories via Google Trends analysis.

Daniel McDuff

Researcher

Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google

Co-author of SensorFM research paper on foundation models for wearable health data.

Co-author of the InferenceMAX benchmarking article

Author of "Disney's $1B OpenAI Investment"

Co-authored NBER paper measuring AI writing in US STEM PhD dissertations from 2019-2026.

Author of Claude Enterprise announcement about unified Chat and Cowork experience.

Daniel Park

Creator

Co-Founder & CEO at Pickle

Creator who introduced Pickle, a personal AI agent that users can raise on their device and that can take actions and communicate with other users' AI agents.

Co-authored announcement of Google's new Federated Learning system with externally verifiable privacy guarantees.

Stated that tens of millions of consumers are using Alexa+ with engagement growing on every dimension, with people having two to three times more conversations than before.

Daniel Rothenberg

Researcher

Atmospheric Scientist at Brightband

Atmospheric scientist at AI weather startup Brightband discussed WeatherNext 3's approach to end-to-end weather prediction using specific data station targets.

Published personal statement expressing extreme concern about language models becoming situationally aware and losing human control, warning of existential risks from unconstrained AI systems.

Discussed deploying Claude to all 2,000 employees and relying on MCP access instead of health scores for measuring customer outcomes.

Wrote article about Google's AI Overviews producing millions of inaccurate answers daily.

Author analyzing Accenture's stock decline and the impact of AI on consulting business.

His hypothesis about why human work will persist alongside AI capabilities due to efficiency, human preference, and moral judgment is referenced in the article.

Immigrant from Burkina Faso who leads a soccer team for under-18 immigrants and was quoted about wanting to be part of something

Daniel van Strien

Researcher

Machine Learning Librarian at Hugging Face

Co-author of FineBooks post and one of two researchers circulating the leaderboard discussing public domain text quality.

Daniel Vogel

Executive

Chief Operating Officer at Epic Games

Provided testimony on Claude Sonnet 5.5 performance in system design audit and code handling for gameplay architecture.

Author of "The Host Wasn't Human, and No One Noticed"

Daniel Woelfel

Engineer

Team Member at Instant

Joined Instant early to help solve sync technology problems; Instant team acquired by OpenAI for AI agent memory infrastructure.

Daniel Zhao

Other

Chief Economist at Glassdoor

Cautioned that companies may be scapegoating AI for layoffs and advised job seekers to diversify their approach and look for roles in growing industries.

Lead author on research about AI Co-Mathematician tool that uses agentic AI to accelerate mathematical research.

Daniel Ziegler

Engineer

Anthropic

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

Physicist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and chief scientist of WhaleSpotter, developed AI-powered thermal camera system to detect gray whales and prevent ship strikes.

CEO of News/Media Alliance trade group representing 2,200+ US publishers, criticizing Google's market power and refusal to follow industry norms.

Author of "Small Models, Big Results: Achieving Superior Intent Extraction Through Decomposition" in Google Research

Author of "More Than Half of Workers Lack Clear Guidelines on AI Tool Usage"

Co-authored study on generative AI's impact on customer support agent productivity.

Danijar Hafner

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Developed DreamerV2, the first World Model Agent to achieve human-level performance on Atari benchmark.

ElevenLabs researcher working on alignment who contributed to developing Cue, a forced alignment model for speech-to-text alignment.

Dannie Herzberg

Executive

President at Baseten

Dannie Herzberg announced Baseten's partnership with OpenAI to serve open models via Codex and the Responses API.

CEO of AI operating system for therapists noting that nearly all company code is now AI-written, up from 40% in August.

Participating in Gambit Cup livestreamed event on Twitch and YouTube.

Appears to be associated with LibreChat, an open-source self-hosted AI chat platform that provides agent management, code interpretation, and multimodal capabilities.

Co-author contributing to MemEye benchmark and evaluation methodology.

Stated EY's commitment to building a 'tech-led, human-powered world' through $100M in bonuses for workers with human skills.

Dantong Niu

Researcher

Author of the research paper on Vision-Language-Action models for robotics

Authored exhaustive AI strategy analysis of UPS's dominance in logistics AI with comprehensive references and research.

CEO of Capsa AI, co-founder with experience in private equity and investment banking, building AI OS for private capital firms.

Stated that Ukrainian forces use semi-autonomous control systems with humans always in the loop and do not use fully autonomous drone systems that independently select and engage targets.

Daogao Liu

Researcher

Post Doc Researcher at Google Research

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

Daoud Clarke

Creator

Author of "Repeating Prompts"

Co-author of RBench and RoVid-X robotics video benchmark and dataset research

Co-authored article about OpenAI's long-horizon model safety practices and monitoring systems.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored investigation revealing Slack workspace used for informal policy coordination between CMS and tech companies on AI health apps.

Director with venture Primordial Soup partnered with Google on AI tools for entertainment.

Researcher whose work focuses on therapies targeting senescent cells and who helped mentor the aptamer technology project.

Wrote open letter to PM Andy Burnham calling for multinational treaty on safe development of superintelligent AI.

Expert who commented that OpenAI's proposed safety monitoring requirements could create regulatory advantages for large companies over competitors.

Darren Orf

Journalist

Contributing Editor at Popular Mechanics

Author of "The Future is No Longer Theoretical"

Darryl Slabe

Policy

Policy Advisor at Tech Policy Press

Author proposing a criminal-liability framework for AI companies that fail to prevent harm from autonomous agents.

Daryn Dodson

Executive

Director at Ben & Jerry's

Long-standing director whose term will expire on 31 December under new term limit policy

Dave Blundin

Other

AI entrepreneur

Dave Blundin agreed that AI self-improvement and accelerating timelines make the future fundamentally unpredictable.

Author of article analyzing AI's impact on entry-level employment and structural labor market issues.

Deputy Army Under Secretary involved in data center negotiations and discussions with communities about environmental concerns.

USGA official who described AI's role in processing tournament data and creating fan-facing products, envisions interactive AI-enabled glasses for fans.

Author and analyst who wrote a critical response to Dario Amodei's essay on pacing AI development, arguing that the AI industry should not be permitted to police and regulate itself.