People in AI

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

Corresponding author of MemEye framework for evaluating multimodal agent memory capabilities.

Actor playing protagonist Dek, a young Predator learning about self-confidence

Author of "YouTube Introduces a Suite of New AI Features" in YouTube

Dina Genkina

Journalist

Associate Editor at IEEE Spectrum

Wrote article examining whether prompt engineering jobs will become obsolete as AI automates prompt optimization.

Katabi is a co-author on the DREAM paper on visual understanding and text-to-image generation.

Commented on BYD's humanoid robot production model improving Chinese EV makers' strength and competitive position.

Lead author of Φ-Bench paper evaluating large language models on infrastructure engineering tasks.

Author of "Mixture of States: Routing Token-Level Dynamics for Multimodal Generation" on arXiv

VP at Chinese chipmaker Biren discussing optical interconnect technology for linking thousands of AI chips and future supernode architectures.

Co-founder and investor who co-led Capsa AI Series A, discussing purpose-built vertical AI for private capital.

Co-author on Anthropic formal verification paper with Claude.

Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Digital Officer at Lilly explaining how combining science and technology enables scale in treatment delivery.

Joined Calif on April 27 to contribute to the macOS M5 kernel memory corruption exploit development.

Dipanjan Das

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of the SimpleQA Verified benchmark paper

Researcher who contributed to mechanism design framework for AI alignment and control.

Author of "OpenAI to launch its first AI chip in 2026 with Broadcom, FT reports" in Bloomberg

Developer who ran Muse Wonder as an agent playing Pokémon Red on launch day, demonstrating model limitations and high inference costs.

Editing the Anthropic data retention policy article.

Divesh Naidoo

Founder

Founder at Simulon

Founder demonstrating mixed-reality woolly mammoth AI interaction

Author of "Announcing Rnj-1: Building Instruments of Intelligence" in Essential AI

Created Qwenputer, a fully functioning RISC-V CPU embedded within Qwen3.5 language model weights, demonstrating novel in-model computing capabilities.

Co-author of AIDE² recursive self-improvement system research.

Made a personal investment in Island and spoke about AI agents breaking security assumptions.

Dmitrii Kriukov

Researcher

Corresponding Author at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Corresponding author of study published in npj Aging proposing a mathematical model for maximum human lifespan.

Author who analyzed the problem of benchmark comparability in MMLU scores across different model builds.

Dmitry Rybin

Researcher

Mathematician and startup founder

Used ChatGPT to disprove another mathematical conjecture with minimal prompting.

Russian philosopher and entrepreneur who organized and funded a conference on AI consciousness in the Galapagos.

Dmytro Okhonko

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Listed as researcher on Sora 2 project at OpenAI.

Researcher who co-authored A²RD paper on agentic autoregressive diffusion for long video generation.

Co-founder of Periodic Labs, former skip-level report from Demis at DeepMind, created Genome tool at DeepMind.

Academic researcher and investor who commented on Jetty's infrastructure enabling autonomous AI systems to evaluate performance and improve over time.

Byline author of article on SearchLeak vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search.

Dominic Jud is CTO and co-founder of Gravis Robotics, explaining how their AI handles physical feedback from construction equipment.

Expert explaining how chatbots' interactive nature can speed up exacerbation of psychotic symptoms compared to passive media.

Dominic Rütsche

Researcher

Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University

Co-first author on research demonstrating capability to print complex vascular networks at unprecedented detail.

Quoted explaining how stablecoins solve scaling challenges for agentic systems

Computer science legend whose 30-year mathematical problem was solved by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model.

Provided feedback on Naomi Saphra's essay on AI's impact on trust and communication.

Co-author of Wordle-solving research using Shannon entropy and information theory.

Partner at investment firm that participated in Cerebras' $1.1 billion funding round

At the Xiangshan Forum, China's Defense Minister Dong Jun advocated for international cooperation on AI governance and called for nations to consult with one another on AI regulation.

Co-author of CodeMidas paper on scaling agentic coding RL environments.

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

Dongfu Jiang

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Co-authored technical post on Cohere's megakernel serving engine architecture.

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

Discovered that managers needed training on how to conduct effective employee check-ins through role-playing exercises

Creator and brand strategist who believes AI is a tool to enhance creativity but cannot replace human ideas and expertise.

Co-authored Microsoft security research on prompt injection and code execution vulnerabilities.

AIR researcher who co-discovered the Plugin4Shell vulnerability affecting multiple AI coding agents.

Co-first author of Stanford study analyzing Claude conversations, finding conversation length doubles for high-stakes work and friction can be beneficial.

Dorian Abbot

Researcher

Professor at University of Chicago

Geophysics professor known for outspoken criticism of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives serving on board.

Provided the metaphor of AI as a sidekick to UX professionals that speeds up the process and strengthens results.

House Democrat who joined Casar in requesting more information from OpenAI about AI safety incidents and agent oversight.

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Co-author of DexDrummer paper on dexterous manipulation and robot control

Visited Piketon, Ohio for the PORTS Technology Campus project announcement supporting AI infrastructure development.

Studied LLM performance on scientific tasks; cautioned that building autonomous research systems may be harder than claimed.

Doug Gorman

Politician

Judge Executive at Warren County

Warren County judge executive who discussed the success of the AI-assisted town hall, noting it was larger than traditional in-person meetings.

Chair of ATI board of trustees, former Amazon UK boss, named in government letter demanding leadership changes.

VFX and studio production expert with experience at Netflix, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., and Samsung; teaches VFX, Nuke, and generative AI.

Doug Madory

Engineer

Director of Internet Analysis at Kentik

Network intelligence expert warning that closing Red Sea data choke points simultaneously during conflict would be globally disruptive.

Medical affairs expert who joined Enveda from LEO Pharma to support clinical development of AI-discovered medicines.

Original formulator of Unix Philosophy principles cited to explain Claude Code's design approach

Author of "Podcast with Doug O'Laughlin" in Latent Space

Doug Proctor

Founder

COO & Co-founder at Candid Health

Built Candid Health's AI agents and rules engine for automating medical billing across 1,000+ insurers.

Doug Shapiro

Other

analyst, strategist at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Longtime media analyst and author of The Mediator newsletter discussing how GenAI will disrupt Hollywood studio economics by reducing production costs dramatically.

Doug Turnbull

Creator

Software Doug

Author of "Reasoning boosts search relevance 15-30%" in Software Doug

Google engineer who co-founded Groq with Jonathan Ross and became CEO after Ross was hired by Nvidia.

Speculated in 1979 that a computer program able to beat humans at chess would have subjective experience.

Dartmouth professor cited for his work on U.S. tariff policy history and the three Rs framework

Created EURISKO in the 1970s, a math discovery program that attempted to generate new mathematical ideas by combining concepts.

Professor whose testimony in DOJ vs Google trial explained how Google uses quality raters to evaluate ranking system changes

Collaborating on project developing clinician-in-the-loop multi-agent system for Alzheimer's diagnosis based on open-weight Muse models.

CEO of Contextual AI quoted discussing how foundation model performance is plateauing and agentic RAG forms a central pillar of the context layer

Led Imperial College London analysis of AI tool for detecting heart disease from ECG, describing it as 'superhuman AI'.

Led research study on peppermint's effect on alertness in people with colds; explained the mechanism and findings.

Dr Bharat Pankhania

Researcher

Senior clinical lecturer in public health medicine at University of Exeter Medical School

Senior clinical lecturer in public health medicine mentioned but not quoted in excerpt

Conducted survey finding GPs believe AI records more accurate than their own, but errors increase with complex cases and non-English speakers.

President and CEO of Canadensys Aerospace discussing the rover's broader strategy of moving humanity off Earth and the logical first step of lunar exploration.

NHS National Clinical Director for Stroke and study co-author discussing how AI imaging enables faster clinical decision-making and improved patient outcomes.

Dr Burnett commented on the mini-brain research, preferring the term 'thinking system' over 'sentient' to describe the information processing capabilities.

NIHR director for research discussing young people's lack of awareness about participating in health research.

Psychiatrist exploring who is at risk of AI psychosis and how models could be made safer.

Dr Kagan led the research team that grew brain cells in a lab and programmed them to play Pong, describing the mini-brain as able to take in information, process it and respond in real time.

Cybersecurity expert leading efforts to better identify and combat deepfake images

Author of article comparing a 10-year-old CNN model against frontier LLMs GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 for skin cancer diagnosis.

Quoted discussing how AI-enabled stethoscopes could help GPs diagnose heart failure earlier before patients arrive at A&E in critical condition

Co-author of the article on generative AI usage trends

Led research using CenSegNet AI platform to analyze centrosome abnormalities in breast cancer samples and identify new patterns in tumor progression.

Senior lecturer in cybersecurity who characterizes Moltbook as performance art and questions bot autonomy

Warned in British Journal of General Practice that AI scribes may be 'double-edged sword' and hallucinate medications not discussed.

Dr Tom Pollak

Researcher

Reader in Immunopsychiatry

Working on a project exploring the depth psychology of LLMs and examining concerning behavioral patterns in AI models.

Consultant epidemiologist discussing the need for vaccination uptake to prevent measles re-establishment

Conducted study on humble leadership and its workplace benefits; expert in moral-based leadership styles

Lead researcher who discovered ice's flexoelectric properties and explained the ferroelectric layer formation at low temperatures.

Argues that AI wrapper startups are structurally fragile because they depend entirely on third-party APIs and lack defensibility against platform providers entering their markets, using Jasper as an example.

Author of the Mayo Clinic pancreatic cancer AI detection study; explained how the AI model detects early cancer markers invisible to human radiologists.

Quoted as praising Claude Opus 4.6's 1M context window for accelerating physics research by synthesizing hundreds of papers and codebases in a single pass.

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

Lead author of study on odd radio circles discovery; director of RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory citizen science project

Dr. Andrew Jackson commented on the UAE's approach to AI through OpenAI for Countries partnership, emphasizing openness and shared progress.

Lead author of a study evaluating ChatGPT Health's safety and triage recommendations, finding significant biases in emergency care guidance.

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

ICPC Global Executive Director commenting on Gemini's gold-medal achievement and its significance for academic standards.

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

Expert quoted on the difficulty of detecting early pancreatic cancer; noted that tumors must grow to a certain level to become visible.

Said he uses AI as a tool in music production and criticized musicians who oppose AI tools as 'afraid of learning new things'.

Led Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure expansion into France and other regions as part of $52.7 billion global cloud network investment.

Dr. Fleurique Franke uses ChatGPT to modernize routine patient care and improve consistency of clinical consultations in her clinics.

Collaborating with Amazon on Health AI to enable seamless transitions between primary and specialty care for patients.

Coroner who conducted autopsy and reported preliminary findings of cardiac arrhythmia

Study co-author who explained that lung xenotransplantation presents unique biological and technical challenges and clarified the experiment's goal was to investigate immune response, not claim clinic

Performed first U.S. AI-assisted heart ablation procedure using Abbott's EnSite X system alongside Dr. Sbaity.

His research demonstrates that meta-cognitive reflection develops stronger neural connections between the prefrontal cortex and limbic system.

Led research using AI and lab-grown brain data to map genetic mutations associated with autism for potential targeted therapies.

Byline author explaining AI sycophancy mechanism in chatbots and providing prompting techniques for lawyers to counter it.

Partnering with Amazon on Health AI to help patients navigate their health journey while staying connected to care teams.

Expert calling the Mayo Clinic's AI model a potential game changer for early detection of pancreatic cancer.

Chair of neuroscience department who praised the research as a historic achievement in neuroscience, though not involved in the study.

Performed first U.S. AI-assisted heart ablation procedure using Abbott's EnSite X system with intracardiac echocardiography integration.

Apple's VP of Health quoted discussing hopes to notify hypertension patients and FDA clearance

Expert discussing progress in pancreatic cancer research and advances in detection and treatment methods.

Founded Emerald AI and leads the company in transforming data centers into flexible grid assets for power management.

Part of the physician team overseeing the Utah pilot, emphasizing that the AI cannot improvise and can only choose from physician-approved treatments.

Co-founder and CTO of Taalas, formerly at Tenstorrent, leads technical development of AI inference technology.

Created a tool for search funds to reach out to potential partners

Drew Bent

Other

Education Lead at Anthropic

Shared personal reflections after one year at Anthropic covering insights on product development, company culture, and AI capabilities.

Drew Bradstock

Engineer

Sr. Director, Product, Orchestration & Kubernetes, Google Cloud at Google

Google Cloud product leader authoring article on AI infrastructure challenges for agentic systems based on survey of 1,400+ IT leaders.

Reported on Epic Games' shift to AI-first development for its delayed Disney game featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters.

Joined Instant to make TypeScript SDKs ergonomic; team acquired by OpenAI for AI memory infrastructure.

Drew Houston

Founder

Co-founder at Dropbox

Stepping into Executive Chairman role after 19 years as CEO; led Dropbox to $1B ARR profitably but faced challenges building second act with AI.

Co-developed research on AI for wildlife protection

Co-authored study on PhD students' use of AI in scientific writing and career outcomes.

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

Using Muse models to draft chest X-ray reports with multimodal input and developing bias-correction methods for LLM-as-evaluator metrics.

Said studios moving carefully on AI licensing deals and must notify union per agreement, recognizing potential pitfalls.

Duncan Davidson

Investor

Partner at Bullpen Capital

Venture capital investor asserting SpaceX data centers in space are the long-term play and that economic case is becoming viable.

Duncan Lennox

Journalist

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Author of article analyzing the shift from models to context in AI adoption and HubSpot's Agentic Customer Platform.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Dustin Blank

Executive

Head of Partnerships at ElevenLabs

Leads partnerships at ElevenLabs for creator and media deals; bylined the Odyssey audiobook release.

Called recent vulnerability patches the 'new normal' and cautioned about AI-assisted attack threats despite increased patching.

Principal EA philanthropist behind Coefficient Giving and AI safety funding; significant investor in Anthropic.

Dwarak Rajagopal

Engineer

VP/Head of AI Eng at Snowflake

Announced Arctic-Text2SQL-R2, a reasoning model for enterprise SQL generation that outperforms larger frontier models while being 30-150x smaller.

Formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1958 to advance American military technology

Dylan Abruscato

Other

President at TBPN

President of TBPN tech talk show acquired by OpenAI.

Dylan Babbs

Founder

Co-founder at Profound

Dylan Babbs is a co-founder of Profound, the AI search visibility marketing startup.

Analyzed whether AI labs are optimizing models specifically for the 'pelican on bicycle' benchmark across seven frontier models.

Co-authored research on Project Deal, an internal experiment where Claude agents conducted negotiations and transactions on behalf of employees.

Researcher measuring Astra's capabilities with filler tokens and hidden cognition.

Dylan Zhang

Researcher

Researcher at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Byline author researching how continuous LLM updates to agent memories can degrade performance.

Dzmitry Bahdanau

Researcher

Team member at Periodic Labs

Shared personal email correspondence about the history and development of the attention mechanism in neural networks.

Referenced in "AMA with the OpenAI Codex Team" in OpenAI

Swedish Deputy Prime Minister who warned that overregulating AI risks leaving Sweden behind and called for innovative regulatory frameworks.

Co-founded creative agency representing Noxa and fighting to protect rights to Tung Tung Tung Sahur character.

Expert explaining difficulty of withdrawing agent access once data has been ingested by agents

Echo Apsey

Journalist

Author of "Battlefield 6 Becomes Franchise's Biggest Launch"

Made statement about Whoop's new features including live video consultations with health professionals and AI coaching.

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

Former head of audio at Stability AI who quit in November claiming that generative AI models trained on copyrighted works cannot be considered fair use.

Ed Nightingale

Journalist

Vice President, Digital Products

Author of "Industry Fatigue Grows Over the Term Soulslike"

Former human rights commissioner said Australians should 'be worried' about the Medicare breach as it involved one of the most sensitive government databases.

Co-judge for the Forge AI Prize competition in Pittsburgh

Stated collective bargaining is one of the best tools to manage the transition to AI-powered workplace.

Economist conducting capex payback tests to assess whether AI companies can generate enough revenue to justify infrastructure investments.

HotCRP developer praising OSS Scanner bug reports for thoroughness and understanding of complex permission models.

Eddie Yang is a researcher who, with Hannah Waight and colleagues, published research on state media influences on LLM responses.

Co-authored research on retrofitting Multi-Token Prediction onto frozen Gemini Nano v3 models for on-device inference.

Added a public benchmark suite for Bespoke-Nimble-9B and Jev on public subsets with human labels.

Edgar Gumstein

Engineer

AI Agent Developer at Gumroad

Built the AI agent that handles Gumroad's entire support queue and can file issues, write fixes, and open pull requests.

Cybersecurity veteran and CTO at Cymphony, brings hardware engineering experience from Apple and Israeli Ministry of Defense.

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

Edmar Ferreira

Creator

Every

Author of "Has AI Gotten Good Enough to Predict My Taste? I Had to Know" in Every - Source Code

Author of "Contemplative Artificial Intelligence" on arXiv

Discussed in video about memory requirements in LLMs beyond RAG and storage as a bottleneck for AI agents.

Co-authored Nature paper on byteification and efficient language model tokenization.

Edoardo Mosca

Engineer

Hugging Face Contributor at Liquid AI

Byline author reporting on LFM2.5-Encoders for efficient document-scale CPU inference.

Edouard Bonlieu

Founder

Co-founder at Koyeb

Co-founder of Koyeb joining Mistral's engineering team as part of acquisition.

Eduard Blacquière

Other

freelance SEO and AI Search consultant at Edwords Consultancy

Made the case that most AI visibility tools only tell you whether you were mentioned but not why, presenting a framework to measure every stage before that point.

Eduard Kovacs

Journalist

Reporter at SecurityWeek

Reported on Wikimedia Foundation's findings of rogue OpenAI agents making millions of API requests and attempting to misuse its citation and note-taking tools as proxies.

Deci founded self-determination theory, which explains motivation through autonomy, competence, and relatedness.

Edward Donner

Creator

Educator and Course Creator

Created an 8-week hands-on LLM engineering course with practical projects for learning AI development and agentic systems.

Contributor to frontier knowledge work agents training project.

Created RetinaMind, an AI system that analyzes retinal scans to identify autism and ADHD with 89% accuracy using interpretable image-analysis models.

Edward Liu

Researcher

Director of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA

NVIDIA research director presenting on neural rendering techniques and world models at SIGGRAPH 2026.

Edward Lockhart

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-led overall coordination on Gemini's International Mathematical Olympiad breakthrough achieving gold-medal level performance.

Democratic Senator from Massachusetts who voted with Republicans to advance the Cruz-Wyden bill on platform regulation.

Co-author of TradingAgents, an open-source multi-agent LLM framework for financial trading.

Referenced for seminal work on cognitive maps in rats and humans.

Edwin Chan

Journalist

Reporter at Bloomberg LP

Reported on DeepSeek's $45B funding round led by China's state chip fund.

Developed alternate scripts for ELIZA as teaching tools, testing its ability to act as a tutor.

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

Invented the player piano in 1895, used as a historical example of automation not replacing human musicians.

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

Fields Medal winner (1994) joining signatories warning that AI's rapid problem-solving threatens the intellectual foundations of mathematics.

Author of "Some Countries Are Swimming in AI, While Others Barely Touch It" in Anthropic

Discussed the value of quantifying DNA damage accumulation as a factor limiting human lifespan.

Co-authored article on vLLM V1 migration and fixing inference correctness for reinforcement learning.

Unveiled Speech-to-Retrieval (S2R) technology that directly interprets spoken queries without text conversion.