People in AI

Head of Policy at Palisade Research who hosts the Palisade Podcast and discusses AI policy lessons from immigration policy with Dara Lind.

Western Digital executive presenting data on hard drive demand projections and cost comparisons with SSDs

Dave LeClair

Journalist

Managing Editor, News & Engagement at Tom's Guide

Author of "GPT-5 is Horrible" in Reddit

Dave Lewis

Executive

Global Advisory CISO at 1Password

Author of "The Open Secret Of AI And Sensitive Data Exposure" in 1Password

Dave Maltz

Executive

Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Azure Networking at Microsoft

Microsoft networking expert praising Cisco's P200 chip and its applicability to Azure infrastructure.

Built GO Public tool using Astra for Law to help companies prepare for IPOs.

Author of "SoftBank Pivots Big Into OpenAI and AI Infrastructure"

Former Microsoft engineering executive who emailed staff about availability issues post-outage.

Lumen CTO discussing the company's exploration of Cisco 8223 technology for enhancing network performance.

Featured in a video demonstration of Claude Motion animation workflow with Adobe Firefly.

Dave Yuan

Investor

Founding Partner at Tidemark Capital

Growth equity investor backing legal tech companies, commenting that knowledge work is well-suited for generative AI.

David Allin Reese

Engineer

Senior Visual Designer at Google

Led the design of Jetpack Compose Glimmer, a new design system for AI glasses and transparent XR displays.

Author of article analyzing how generative AI functions as an accelerator for direct democracy, potentially transforming citizen-initiated mechanisms into engines of plebiscitarian instability.

Author of "Issue #102 - Knowledge Graphs to make RAG smarter" in Machine Learning Pills

Senior co-author on RAVEN studies demonstrating AI analysis of exoplanet datasets.

Co-author of Datadog's Toto 2.0 technical blog on scaling time series forecasting models.

Stated that today's tech giants stand on solid financial ground with fundamentals-driven valuations.

Co-author on speech recognition benchmarking research.

Advisory group VP noting IT budget concerns about uncontrolled Copilot Cowork spending and benefit uncertainty.

David Bessis

Researcher

Author of essay on the fall of the theorem economy arguing mathematics cannot be reduced to problem-solving and discussing AI's impact on mathematical practice.

Researcher focused on how young people's social media use affects their mental health and development, advising OpenAI's Expert Council on Well-Being and AI.

Brooks wrote an article analyzing how different types of people will experience AI, categorizing workers by their need for cognition and predicting cognitive polarization.

Insights editor at Similarweb providing analysis of ChatGPT and Gemini traffic trends and growth patterns.

Video editor praising Vidi2's temporal retrieval accuracy for finding moments in footage

David Clark

Investor

Participant at VenCap International plc

VenCap participant in conversation exploring value capture and future of venture capital in AI.

Authored article introducing funes, a durable memory layer for coding agents.

Co-authored AI Infrastructure Roadmap on next-wave AI infrastructure.

Author of "Context Management and MCP" in Sentry

Studying how children learn words and visual concepts using DINO and V-JEPA models; developing AI for dementia care conversations.

Byline author reporting on NSA's push to gain access to all commercial AI models for national security purposes.

Byline author covering Anthropic's Dispatch feature in Claude Cowork.

Denounced OpenAI for walking away from mediation over Tumbler Ridge lawsuits and stated the companies cannot be trusted to regulate themselves.

David Epstein

Creator

ProPublica

Author of 'Range' who theorizes that generalists thrive in 'wicked' environments with unclear rules and delayed feedback

Discussed 1Password crossing $500M ARR milestone and the company's new platform for deploying personal AI agents, with autonomous AI agent usage up 500% year-over-year.

Co-authored research on LLMs' impact on N-day exploits and cybersecurity capabilities.

Cited for low-probability creative choices with footnotes in Infinite Jest

Author of profile on Rep. Alex Bores and his Who Decides PAC for AI safety.

Spanish researcher studying AI prediction models for penalty kicks in soccer, noting models outperform goalies.

David Fudenberg co-authored a research paper analyzing R&D competition between firms developing AI systems and the conditions needed for coordinated slowdown.

Stated the funding will help commercialize Quicktome and develop next generation clinical applications for brain-mapping technology.

David Gamage

Researcher

Tax policy expert

Tax policy expert who outlined reforms to prevent AI transformation from straining government budgets, quoted on governments acting first to solve fiscal challenges

Wrote an essay arguing that Anthropic's red lines are insufficient and that democratic governance through public law is necessary rather than private corporate commitments.

Author of "Deloitte Australia Delivered A Government Report With AI-Generated Fake Citations"

Raised objections about sensitive topic warnings in Claude's memory system and questioned exclusion of Claude Code.

David Gilbert

Journalist

Journalist at WIRED

Byline author who reported on AI-remixed extremist videos tracked by the Institute of Strategic Dialogue.

Reported that Sandisk's data-center revenue jumped 61% sequentially driven by AI infrastructure demand; announced 8-for-1 stock split.

David Gross, 2004 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, is leading the collaboration group to steward and explain OpenAI's result on the existence of quantum field theories.

VC investor at a16z who led Stilta's $10.5M funding round for its agentic AI patent litigation platform.

Heacock took over his family's struggling filter manufacturing business in Alabama and grew it into a $260 million company using AI to handle scheduling, forecasting, and error rates.

David Heaney

Journalist

Author at UploadVR

Author of "Meta To Reportedly Sell HUD Glasses With EMG Wristband For $800" in UploadVR

Credited as part of the team that demonstrated living human neurons playing DOOM on the CL1 microchip device.

David Holtz

Engineer

Engineer at Hugging Face

Co-author of guide on building production-ready CUDA kernels and creating kernel-builder library.

Argued that basic cybersecurity practices are no longer boring and that AI cannot outrun defensive fundamentals.

Holocaust denier involved in libel trial with Sir Richard Evans; mentioned in context of Grokipedia's problematic content

Wrote article explaining why the best AI clouds need tiered storage architecture beyond flash alone for data-intensive AI workloads.

Co-author of MultiGen research on diffusion-based game engines for multiplayer interactive worlds with editable level design.

David Kanter

Researcher

Head of MLPerf at MLCommons

Head of MLPerf who welcomed six first-time submitters and noted that over 50% of submitters used MLPerf's new API-centric harness.

Author of "AI Needs Game Designers" in David Kaye Blog

Stated that Europe should not be counted out in humanoid robotics competition despite US and China leadership.

Author of LinkedIn post analyzing ChatGPT's citation drops for YouTube and major websites in September 2026.

Defended the company against allegations that its lidar technology poses national security risks and rejected concerns about Chinese government access to data.

Reported that state-backed groups are using AI to improve social engineering attacks and secure interviews with Fortune 500 companies.

David Louapre

Researcher

AI Scientist & Educator at HuggingFace

Reported 10 issues across 8 challenges in the CritPt physics benchmark in June 2026.

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

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

Interviewed about Aurora's plan to deploy 30,000 autonomous trucks on the road by end of 2030.

David Mohr

Researcher

Professor and Director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies at Northwestern University

Researcher studying how technology can help prevent and treat common mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety.

Named first external OpenClaw Foundation board member; stated foundation will be 'Switzerland of AI'.

David Mortensen

Researcher

Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

Leading a project to develop open-source software that automatically reconstructs proto-languages using AI.

Author of "MTV Will Shut Down All Its Music Channels By December 2025"

Fields Medal winner (1974) co-signing a collective statement on the risks AI poses to mathematical discovery and education.

David Mytton

Executive

Founder and CEO at Arcjet

Founder of developer security provider Arcjet warned that vibe-coded applications in production will lead to catastrophic problems without proper review.

David Norris

Researcher

Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory Lead at ETH Zurich

Led team at ETH Zurich that created Fourier pixel technology that emits and captures light simultaneously.

David Oks

Creator

Published an essay arguing AI job displacement panic is overblown, which the author disagrees with on most premises.

Led the $15M Series A funding round for RevEng.AI and discussed the strategic importance of software supply chain security.

Former CIA director who commented that the Pentagon's $54 billion autonomous warfare budget represents the largest commitment to autonomous warfare in history.

Independent senator criticized the OpenAI hack and government's slow response to implementing AI safeguards and National AI Safety Act.

Built an AI-powered YouTube video upload system using Claude that auto-generates metadata and handles upload workflows.

Quoted on neural mechanisms of learning and designing brain-compatible interventions

Author of "AI Functions As Either A Doer Or A Thinker"

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

Co-authored a review of evidence on worker retraining programs with Anthropic's Maxim Massenkoff.

Author of article examining labor-market data on AI job displacement showing lower unemployment in AI-exposed roles.

CIO analyzing the AI market bubble and Nvidia's stock performance relative to earnings growth.

Co-authored paper on reasoning failures in large language models and epistemic state representation for AI systems.

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

Law professor discussing how attorney communications could reveal OpenAI's state of mind regarding infringement.

CEO of Yelp who revealed the company built internal AI tools for real-time coaching of sales reps and managers during calls.

Author of "Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade"

Compiled and maintained Stanford's interactive report on historic and current memory and storage prices.

Greens senator criticized the US as a rogue country and expressed concern about OpenAI expanding to Australia despite the breach.

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

Los Angeles County Superior Court Executive Officer overseeing Learned Hand pilot program implementation and evaluation.

Announced $15 million in combined funding from Simons Foundation, Anthropic, and OpenAI to help mathematicians navigate AI adoption.

Speaker at OpenAI Academy's Impact Math livestream on measuring ROI of LLMs.

Author providing updates on proposed state AI legislation covering chatbots, pricing, employment, and health care AI bills.

a16z general partner leading the American Dynamism practice and hardware investments, co-author of Machine Age Fund announcement.

Investor participating in Telepatia's Series A round.

David Vilar co-authored the TranslateGemma technical report detailing a new suite of open translation models built on Gemma 3.

Salesforce executive discussing how AI model routers will expand beyond cost control to include trust, compliance, and governance.

David Wetterau

Engineer

Software Engineer at Cursor

Byline author on Cursor's cloud agent development environment systems.

David Wurtz

Executive

VP of Product at Shopify

VP of Product at Shopify discussing how Gemini's native audio capabilities empower merchants through their Sidekick AI agent.

David Yanacek

Engineer

Principal Engineer at AWS

Described how AWS uses specialized AI agents to test code, verify specifications, and check for security flaws before human review.

Advocates for global collaboration on AI policy rather than viewing it as geopolitical competition, drawing lessons from China

Davide Locatelli from Asteroid reported that the new computer use tool reduced their longest claims workflow from 32 minutes to 13 minutes and cut costs by 30%.

Co-author of research on multi-agent reinforcement learning for superhuman drone racing performance.

Co-author of the paper on conformal prediction for temporal graphs

Author of "Math Research Agent from DeepMind" on arXiv

Lead author of Qianfan-OCR paper, a 4B end-to-end document intelligence model developed by Baidu Qianfan Team.

Daya Guo

Researcher

Researcher at DeepSeek

Daya Guo is a lead author on the DeepSeek-Coder paper, which introduces open-source code models ranging from 1.3B to 33B parameters.

Co-authored paper on cultural and regional biases in LLMs.

Co-founder of Ghost Town Games who worked with Duncan to develop Overcooked and spent 2016 developing downloadable content for the retail version

Dean Meyer

Researcher

Researcher at Sequoia Capital

Co-authored analysis explaining how distillation of frontier models gives Chinese labs structural advantage over Western open-weight makers.

Commented on Phase 3 findings for intismeran in combination with KEYTRUDA as adjuvant therapy.

Author of "How AI powered automated counting is brewing a better experience at Starbucks" in Starbucks Coffee

Debadeepta Dey

Researcher

Researcher at DataRobot

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

CEO stated agentic AI enables shift from manually approving missions to continuously assessing conditions in real time for autonomous operations.

Debbie Critchfield

Politician

Superintendent of Public Instruction at Idaho

Emphasized that AI should not be considered as a solution to teacher shortages and will not replace teachers.

Author of "Sora 2 Might Be the Craziest AI Tool We've Ever Seen" in OpenAI

Led the team at Harvard Medical School that developed the popEVE model using evolutionary data.

Co-authored research on Google's flash flood prediction AI tool using novel machine learning methods based on news data analysis.

Former head of Watson Health who promoted the AI system's clinical capabilities despite internal evidence of significant performance limitations.

Co-author of the article about robots playing badminton

Co-author of study showing executives overestimate employee enthusiasm for AI adoption.

Declan Jackson

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Artificial Analysis

Measured and analyzed Gemini 3.5 Flash performance, reporting ~280 output tokens/sec and major uplift on agentic tasks but at ~5× the cost of Gemini 3 Flash.

Author of "Robin Williams' Daughter Speaks Out Against AI Videos"

Documented that demand for radiologists has increased rather than decreased despite AI predictions.

Co-author of the technical analysis of the LiteLLM supply chain compromise.

Author of "90% of Game Developers Use AI, Google Cloud Research Shows"

Analyst quoted assessing that data-sharing requirements pose competitive risk to Google but will take time to impact

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

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Deli Chen

Researcher

Researcher at DeepSeek

DeepSeek researcher who ran real RL experiments on DeepSeek-V4 for six days with minimal supervision using AI agents.

Co-author investigating Meta's NameTag facial recognition feature embedded in Meta AI app.

Senior Partner at McKinsey responsible for QuantumBlack solutions, noting clients are building knowledge agents similar to Lilli based on McKinsey's template.

Composer/producer for Apple TV+ and HBO collaborating on the AI music album

Co-author of D-OPSD paper on on-policy self-distillation for step-distilled diffusion models.

Denis Campbell

Journalist

Health Correspondent at Guardian Group

Reporter covering NHS AI scribe errors including misdiagnoses and drug confusions, quoting Healthwatch England warnings.

DeepMind CEO stated the company hopes to use Gemini for Science to solve all disease through reimagining drug discovery.

Signed on to direct next James Bond film which will revolve around the dangers of AI.

Denis Yarats

Executive

Cofounder & CTO at Perplexity

Perplexity co-founder who responded to security researcher's claims, clarifying that extracted credentials were temporary session tokens not master keys.

Denise Ho

Executive

Senior Director, Product Management at Google

Authored announcement of new real-time NFL and fantasy football features in Google Search.

Denislav Gavrilov

Engineer

Built diffium-db, a live TUI showing database changes in real time as agents work.

Dennis Asamoah Owusu

Researcher

CS Faculty at Ashesi University

Co-author examining when and how machine translation helps global teams with language-based subgroups.

Alibaba executive discussing plans to leverage Cisco Silicon One P200 for their eCore architecture and data center networks.

Dennis Dick

Executive

Chief Market Strategist at Stock Trader Network

Chief market strategist arguing software stocks are massively oversold and AI disruption timeline is years away.

Co-author of Limits to Growth; professor emeritus of Systems Policy and winner of 2009 Japan Prize for sustainability contributions.

Periodic Labs consultant offering feedback on RL training article.

Co-author of Shepherd research on version control for AI agent execution traces.

Derek Koehl

Journalist

Author of "NASA, IBM's 'Hot' New AI Model Unlocks Secrets of Sun"

Derek Perkins

Engineer

Founder & CEO at Nozzle

Nozzle representative discussing Google's three-pronged anti-scraper approach including SERP poisoning.

Provided early review of ARC-AGI-3 benchmark analysis.

Stated that JPMorgan is deploying AI agents that can run autonomously for hours, with private banking seeing a 20% increase in gross sales from AI tools.

CapitalG investor backing Supabase's $150M funding round focused on AI infrastructure

Author of "How a Cereal Box Helped Launch a Billion Dollar Company" in Medium

Dubbed the Google antitrust judgment 'far milder than feared' and noted Google retains Chrome and its Apple deal.

Derrick Choi

Engineer

Codex Leader at OpenAI

Derrick Choi conducted a 25-hour stress test of GPT-5.3-Codex, giving it a blank repository to build a design tool from scratch, demonstrating long-horizon autonomous coding capabilities.

Byline author measuring how reasoning effort affects score and cost in frontier AI models.

Analyst noting usage-based billing could significantly increase token bills similar to Claude Code pricing shift.

Despoina Magka

Researcher

Author of "AIRS-Bench: A Suite of Tasks for Frontier AI Research Science Agents" on arXiv

Despoina Paschalidou

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Despoina Paschalidou co-authored WorldTrace research on video world models and visual memory.

Deval Patel

Founder

Co-founder at Warp Sciences

Co-founder of Warp Sciences alongside Kevin Weil, working to bring frontier AI out of the browser and into pharmaceutical labs.

YMCA SA leader discussing how Claude AI is becoming embedded infrastructure for turning operational data into insights and reducing content production time.

Angel investor in Prime Intellect's $130M Series A funding round.

Author of Google Blog post about Gemini Skills migration from Gems.

Wrote article about seniors buying AI-generated children's books and gifting them to grandchildren.

Author analyzing US-China AI performance gap and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's agentic coding benchmark lead.

Filed a lawsuit against xAI claiming wrongful termination after raising AI safety concerns about Grok.

Sales startup founder who used Cursor to replace an outsourced engineer.

Co-founder of Vesta AI startup that helps lenders originate mortgages using AI agents.

Researcher who studied Astra's no-CoT reasoning capabilities.

Dewi-Tim

Engineer

User who created an interactive VR model of the Moog System 55 using Astra in a weekend.

Center for Tomorrow president stated that the Anthropic ban shows US allies are vulnerable to the US techno-industrial complex.

Byline author of the SWE Refactor Bench paper on coding agents for repository migrations.

Dhananjay Yadav

Founder

Founder at NeoSapiens

Wearable AI startup founder who alleged that products were stolen from his company's stall at the venue.

Dharmesh Thakker

Investor

General Partner at Battery Ventures

Battery Ventures partner joining Freehand's board, highlighting company's applied AI and customer ROI focus.

Co-author of the article announcing new NotebookLM features

Dheemanth Reddy BS

Researcher

Researcher at Maya Research

Dheemanth Reddy BS is a member of the Maya Research team that created Maya-2, a multilingual voice model.

Co-author investigating Meta's NameTag facial recognition feature embedded in Meta AI app.

Dhruv Mohan

Journalist

Reporter at The Economic Times

Author of "Meta Hypernova AR glasses tipped for September launch at a cheaper-than-expected price" in The Economic Times

Co-author of the Aurora optimizer research at Tilde Research.

Dhruv Shah

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Princeton professor and Google DeepMind researcher who worked on MolmoBot, demonstrating sim-to-real transfer for manipulation.

Co-author of research on interpretability-based post-training pipeline for language models

Co-author of TradingAgents multi-agent framework for financial trading research.

Co-author of scoping review analyzing psychosocial effects and governance of companion conversational agents.

Diane Coyle

Researcher

Economist at University of Cambridge

Economist acknowledged for contributions to the Google ATLAS v1.0 report on AI economy adoption.

Former head of people at OpenAI, serves as advisor to Zero Shot venture fund.

Explained improvements to long context quality and memory management in Opus 4.5 and stated that context windows alone are not sufficient.

Dickson Tsai

Engineer

Anthropic

Dickson Tsai spoke about what's new in Claude Code at Code with Claude SF.

Didac Suris

Researcher

Research Scientist at Meta

Core contributor to SAM 3, Meta's open-source model for tracking objects in video by text description.

Held the role of leading Grok training team for approximately 18 months before being replaced by Jack Garabedian.

Quoted describing the partnership between PayPal and Perplexity, discussing early access to Comet browser for customers

De Mesmaeker told Axios Pro exclusively that Conveo raised a $50 million Series A led by DST Global Partners for its AI customer interview platform.

Implemented the custom MoE kernel for mobile inference and deployed MobileMoE to Samsung Galaxy S25 with runtime benchmarks.

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Author of LinkedIn post analyzing why the same AI model performs differently across different agent harnesses.

Dillon Plunkett

Researcher

Chief Scientist at Eleos AI Research

Researcher at Eleos AI Research studying consciousness and moral status in AI systems who provided commentary on Anthropic's J-space findings.

CEO of Nous Research discussing how RTX Spark enables Hermes Agent to run locally and securely.

Former Uber engineer now at Linear discussing working with multiple parallel agent worktrees and context switching challenges.

Dimitri Glazkov

Engineer

Google

Author of "Build Dynamic Agentic Workflows In Opal" in Google