People in AI

Eiji Watanabe

Researcher

Associate Professor of Neurophysiology at National Institute for Basic Biology

Explained how deep neural networks can be used in illusion research to simulate how the brain processes information.

Co-author on arXiv paper about collaborative AI agents conducting autonomous quantum physics research.

Eileen Burbidge

Investor

Founding Partner at NFG Ventures

Quoted expressing optimism about AI despite market volatility and saying AI bubble is letting out air.

Led research team that discovered sandbox escapes in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Antigravity coding agents.

Announced Gong's Mission Big Dipper and Revenue Harness, emphasizing the need for governed AI agents with revenue context.

CFO described early-warning maintenance deployed catching anomalies, discussed cost reductions, and spoke about AI's role in finance operations and enterprise workflows.

Eiso Kant

Founder

Co-founder at Poolside AI

Explained Poolside's Model Factory approach, how Laguna S was built in 8 weeks, and vision for multiple foundation model companies.

Ekagra Ranjan

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Cohere

Key contributor to Cohere Transcribe model development.

Ekdeep Singh Lubana

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Goodfire AI

Lead author of Goodfire research on interpretability protocols for model post-training auditing

Ekin Akyürek

Researcher

Research Scientist at MIT

Co-author of the paper on Self-Adapting Language Models

Co-author on arXiv paper about autonomous research laboratory using AI agents for quantum physics experiments.

Byline author covering children's skepticism toward AI trends and adoption.

Presented Anthropic's GTM stack at SaaStr AI Annual 2026, walking through how they use AI to orchestrate their sales tools.

Elena Marchetti

Journalist

Journalist

Author investigating GitHub's fake star economy and its impact on AI/LLM startups and venture capital funding decisions.

Elham Morshedzadeh contributed industrial design expertise to the MyoStep soft exoskeleton.

Eli Collins

Executive

VP, Product at Google DeepMind

Announced the partnership between Google DeepMind and A24 for AI filmmaker tools development.

Eli Pariser

Creator

Co-director at New_ Public

Guest contributor describing observations and reflections from The Curve 2026 AI conference.

Eli Schwartz

Engineer

Research Manager at IBM Research

Manager of IBM's multimodal AI group, discussed Granite Vision 4.1's design for document understanding tasks in enterprise applications.

Author of security research article on Yoba malware campaign targeting AI users.

Authored article analyzing Perplexity's Lily inference engine for on-device AI on Apple Silicon.

Elie Habib

Creator

Developer

Creator and copyright holder of World Monitor, an open-source geopolitical monitoring dashboard.

Elin Nilsson co-authored the Pragmatic Engineer survey on AI tooling usage among 900+ software engineers in 2026.

Eliot Peper

Creator

Sci-fi Novelist

Co-creator of Tolans AI companions and author of multiple articles about AI as a storytelling medium

Profound team member announcing integration of Moz search visibility data into their platform.

Leading research-integrity specialist based in San Francisco who noted that even when chatbots don't directly create fake papers, they provide suggestions that could help users commit fraud.

Author of "Modern CRM Platforms Like HubSpot and Salesforce"

Author of "Pope Leo XIV Disapproves of AI Pope Proposal"

Wrote New York Times article about Anthropic's discussions with religious leaders on AI consciousness.

Elizabeth Gibney

Journalist

Science Writer at Nature

Author of the Nature article reporting on the testing of 13 AI models for academic fraud compliance.

Cited as a critic famous for non-probabilistic adjectives in artistic criticism

Discussed how Model Hardware Standard was built for science and enterprise benefits in CNBC interview.

Reported on TENEX Series B funding round and company expansion plans for AI-native security platform.

Co-authored research report on AI use in schools showing that 1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship or knows someone who has.

Byline author analyzing the collapse of Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness hedge fund.

Elizabeth Segran

Journalist

Staff Writer at Fast Company

Fast Company staff writer covering Claire's company history and financial troubles

Stated Netflix's approach to AI focuses on empowering storytellers rather than replacing them, commenting on the InterPositive acquisition.

Elke Schwarz

Researcher

Among peers who circulated Eryk Salvaggio's essay about AI agent incidents and organizational responsibility.

Professor who expresses caution about relying on AI for medical diagnosis

Actor who plays protagonist Lucy MacLean in Fallout, featured in a scene incorrectly summarized by the AI recap.

Actress playing Thia, a legless android character

Ellen Kuhl co-authored the BurgerAI research demonstrating how generative AI can learn food design from recipe data and optimize for multiple objectives.

Ellie Acra

Policy

Reporter at The White House

White House staff member credited with the byline for Executive Order 14409 on advanced AI innovation and security.

CFO providing additional commentary on marketing intensity and investment allocation for 2025

Benchmark maintainer analyzed Fable's KernelBench-Mega submission revealing one cooperative kernel launch per decoded token.

Co-author of Robostral Navigate paper contributing to robotics and embodied AI research.

Elliot Lindberg

Creator

Creator at Lovable

Posted on X introducing Lovable Payments feature allowing users to add payments and monetize websites through chat.

Published a research article on autoresearch using Claude to optimize file compression algorithms with constrained optimization.

Co-author of analysis of OpenAI Stargate infrastructure project sites across the US.

Co-founder of AI gaming startup Wolf Games, whose mystery games are being integrated into Peacock's mobile platform.

Elliott Breece

Engineer

Google DeepMind

Co-author of Google Blog post about Project Genie, an interactive AI world-building prototype.

OpenAI researcher who described three levels of AI integration into firms: beneath, beside and between organizational layers.

Ellis Rosen

Creator

Cartoonist at The New Yorker

New Yorker cartoonist whose signature is reproduced by ChatGPT.

Co-authored SB 947 with Jerry McNerney to establish safeguards for AI use in the workplace.

Fields Medal winner (2010) joining the call for urgent action to address AI's misalignment with mathematical research goals.

Led multidisciplinary team coordinated by Dr. Esteller investigating biological features of Maria Branyas using genomic, proteomic, epigenomic, metabolomic and microbiomic technologies.

Olivetti collaborated on MIT's multimodal AI model for materials science that helps identify crystalline materials with desired properties.

Rock and roll legend who died of cardiac arrhythmia at age 42

Paid attention to Rahul Sengottuvelu's post on reviewing AI code by risk rather than size.

Co-author and contributor to Datadog's Toto 2.0 time series forecasting model family release.

Attended G7 summit with AI CEOs discussing global standards for advanced models.

Co-authored arXiv paper on linear-time and constant-memory text embeddings using recurrent language models.

Commented that US export controls on Anthropic have changed the geopolitical AI landscape for G7 nations.

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

Author of "Huawei AI chip-powered DeepSeek R2 tipped to launch this month" in Huawei Central

AI critic and podcaster who wrote about potential conflict between posthuman world transition and those opposing it, referencing a 'Butlerian jihad.'

Emilia David

Journalist

Author at VentureBeat

Reported on Anthropic's upgraded Claude AI model with new capabilities for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Co-author contributing to sparse model training kernels and optimization research.

Emilio Ferrara

Researcher

Professor of Computer Science at USC

Published analysis on quantization-induced bias in compressed LLMs, demonstrating that evaluated models differ from deployed versions and can introduce stereotyping in open-ended generation.

Nashville-based singer/songwriter and electronic music vocalist collaborating on the AI music album

New Yorker contributor since 2008 whose pen name e. flake appears on ChatGPT-generated cartoons.

Former CISO at United Airlines and Docusign who serves as COO of Glow, the AI-native endpoint security startup.

Co-authored technical content about semantic search implementation in Cursor's coding agent.

Author of "Circle to Search Identifies Anything on Screen"

Emily Shugerman

Journalist

Reporter at SF Standard

Author of "OpenAI Thinks Its Critics Are Funded by Billionaires. Now It's Going After Them" in SF Standard

Emily Stewart

Journalist

Senior Correspondent at Business Insider

Emily Stewart is a senior correspondent at Business Insider who reported on AI agents being deployed by consumers to call customer service lines for tasks like bill negotiation and subscription cancellation.

AWS Generative AI Worldwide Foundations Lead who developed the technical deep dive course

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

Emily Yuan

Founder

Co-Founder And COO at Corgi

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Corgi, an AI-native insurance platform that raised $160M in Series B funding.

Managing Director at Salesforce Ventures; investor in Upscale AI's Series A-1 round.

Emma Barker Bonomo

Journalist

Editor at TIME

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Author of article analyzing gender gap in AI job hiring and pay disparities.

Leads UK Board and CEO Practice; provides analysis on CEO turnover trends and organizational strategy.

Co-authored the article about Generac's $8 billion deal with Amazon.

Supporting Human Protein Atlas collaboration with Biohub on open science and AI-powered modeling of cellular biology.

Emma Rosenfeld discovered a measurement technique error during testing of the magic state cultivation protocol, leading to innovations in theoretical and engineering approaches.

Byline author reporting on Realbotix humanoid robot deployment in New York classroom.

Thanked for reviewing the code review article

Emma Wiles

Other

Co-author of research on why AI agents should not be treated like employees.

Co-author of the seminal 2012 paper on Cas9 CRISPR technology with Jennifer Doudna

Emmett Shear

Executive

Executive

Referenced by Sam Altman as having articulated a vision of wanting a thoughtful, challenging, but respectful senior coworker in AI systems.

Co-author on research studying collective dynamics and success across domains

Author of "Windows 12 Will Have AI At Its Core"

Byline author reporting on Elon Musk's confirmation that xAI will open-source Grok 3.

Author of the article about Anthropic's revenue targets

Eno Reyes

Other

CTO & Co-Founder at Factory

Co-author of Factory 2.0 article announcing software factories and autonomous Droids across enterprise software development.

Co-author of the article on AI productivity advances

University of Arizona researcher participating in the semiconductor defect detection project

Eren Bali

Founder

Cofounder/CEO at Monogram

Udemy co-founder announced Monogram's emergence from stealth with $40M seed funding for an iOS app that generates visual interfaces.

Lead author of study on AI foundation model that identifies patient health risks from sleep physiology data.

Eric Adams

Politician

Mayor at City of New York

Mayor who launched the autonomous vehicle safety regime that enabled Waymo's testing permit in 2024.

Eric Bahn

Investor

Co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund

Predicted AI will have a big impact on enterprise workforce in 2026, expecting automation of both repetitive and logic-based roles.

Developed the Hayek Machine concept for economic agent systems that influenced the Economy of Minds work.

Author of "The WAU Effect" in Mobile Dev Memo

Wrote about Google Sheets Canvas, a new feature that transforms spreadsheets into interactive dashboards using Gemini AI.

Pointed the automated loop at a fresh, low-stakes app and walked away without intervening, allowing it to ship 101 features in a week.

Former special education teacher and Education Committee Chair supporting deliberate, evidence-based approach to AI tools.

Byline author for Durable infrastructure scaling article.

Eric Early testified at Nevada Transportation Authority hearing about Tesla's robotaxi deployment plans, stating Tesla aims to deploy 2,500 robotaxis within a year rather than the approved 5,000 ceiling.

Leading Sarasota-based cybersecurity firm that raised $250M Series B for AI-powered managed detection and response services.

Eric Geller

Journalist

Senior Reporter at Cybersecurity Dive

Wrote article on cybersecurity officials' position that basic security practices remain most consequential despite AI advances.

Noted that AI spend across Ramp's customer base grew 13x in 12 months and highlighted the tension between efficiency and token consumption revenue.

Wrote policy article arguing governments should listen to people before deploying AI to repair public trust.

AI2 Robotics CEO claiming $2.93B valuation and commercial robot deployments beating US competitors.

Eric J. Michaud

Researcher

Author of "On Neural Scaling and the Quanta Hypothesis"

Eric Jenkins

Policy

Indiana's 2024 Teacher of the Year

Suggested AI could end up replacing some parts of teaching, but as a tool rather than a replacement.

Eric Katz

Journalist

Reporter at NOTUS

Author of report on Treasury Department's internal warning about AI market posing systemic risks to the U.S. financial system.

Commented on software companies partnering with Anthropic as a positive development following the software sector selloff.

Author of "Apple vs. the AI Hype Cycle"

Author of "Eric Landis - Business Valuation"

Authored the blog post announcing Dubbing v2 API with improvements to emotion preservation across 90+ languages.

Pebble founder building an AI ring expected to debut in 2026 with voice interaction capabilities.

OpenAI team member participating in GPT-5.1 announcement AMA

Eric Newcomer

Journalist

Journalist at Substack

Journalist reporting on NVIDIA's $6B licensing deal with Poolside AI

Eric Nguyen

Founder

Co-founder & CEO at Radical Numerics

Co-founded Radical Numerics with $50M funding to train AI models directly on biological data for drug discovery and biodefense.

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

Author of 'The Lean Startup' which framed startups as laboratories and entrepreneurs as scientists.

Eric Revell

Journalist

Co-author reporting on federal jury ruling against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI.

Leading Broad Institute's participation in Biohub's Virtual Biology Initiative to advance AI-powered cellular research and open data sharing.

Eric S. Yuan

Founder

Founder & CEO at Zoom

Quoted about connecting Muse with Zoom to bring conversation context into Muse and help turn discussions into action for small businesses.

Eric Semaan was a co-author of the Unit 42 investigation into an AI-orchestrated cyber attack that compressed weeks of intrusion tradecraft into less than 10 hours.

Author of "Study Finds Memory Works Differently Age Google" in Columbia University

Provided testimonial praising the advisor tool for making better architectural decisions on complex tasks with no overhead on simple ones.

Medical expert who noted that frontier LLMs outperform specialized clinical AI in a blind test published in Nature Medicine.

Quoted discussing AirPods Max 2 features powered by H2 chip with AI capabilities like Live Translation and Adaptive Audio.

Investor and chief strategy adviser to Foundation Future Industries, promoting the company's military robotics vision.

Sat on the Ninth Circuit panel hearing arguments in Perplexity v. Amazon AI agent legal dispute.

American behavioral geneticist who has characterized Nucleus Genomics and similar firms as 'new eugenics companies'

Author of "How we optimized Dash's relevance judge with DSPy" in Dropbox Tech Blog

Eric Wilson

Other

Director, Center for Campaign Innovation at Center for Campaign Innovation

Director of nonprofit encouraging conservative campaigns to adopt AI; stated generative AI helps campaigns do more with less.

Eric Wong

Researcher

Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania

2024 AI2050 Early Career Fellow pioneering provably robust machine learning and developing safeguards to prevent misuse of generative AI, with methods used at Meta, Google, and Anthropic.

Eric Xu

Engineer

Senior Manager for Robotics at Meta

Stated Meta's long-term goals to put robots in data centers for incident response, monitoring, and preventative maintenance.

Eric Zakariasson

Engineer

OpenAI

Co-authored GPT-5 prompting guide for OpenAI.

Quoted praising Muse as a capable utility-minded agent that makes managing business operations through Notion feel effortless.

Explained that off-the-shelf legal AI cannot knit together complex transaction execution and serves only common denominators.

Author of "We Lost Our Kids to Social Media Now AI Gen Z" in Fortune

Byline author announcing Modal's $750M Series D at $15.75B valuation, discussing new building blocks for AI infrastructure.

Advisor to Lin who praises Refashion's intersection of computation and design

Erik Dunteman

Engineer

Engineer at Modal

Modal engineer supporting RL training infrastructure development.

Author of 'The Splendid and the Vile,' a Winston Churchill biography used as a demo example.

Advocated for verification as critical component of AI safety, security and correctness.

Co-authored announcement of Cursor's updated Design Mode for agent-assisted UI editing.

Quoted explaining how x402 and AP2 enable agent-to-agent payments with stablecoins

Senior partner leading development of Lilli, McKinsey's proprietary AI platform trained on over 100 years of firm IP.

Erik Voorhees

Founder

Chief Executive Officer at Venice.ai

Founded privacy-first AI platform Venice with 850k+ visitors, raised $65M Series A at $1B valuation.

Lead author of HorizonMath research paper on measuring AI progress toward mathematical discovery with automatic verification.

Unitarian Universalist who secured similar workplace accommodations allowing her to abstain from AI use; inspired Durman's pursuit of exemption.

Erin O'Shea is HHMI President overseeing the bold effort to use transparent fish and AI to solve the brain-behavior question.

Erin Pettigrew

Journalist

Writer at Google DeepMind

Announced Google's Gemini desktop app for Windows with Alt+Space shortcut and AI agent capabilities.

Erin Price-Wright

Investor

General Partner in American Dynamism at Andreessen Horowitz

a16z partner leading hardware and U.S. manufacturing investments through American Dynamism practice.

Byline author writing about LLM usage in writing and editing practices.

Cognitive scientist collaborating with Gary Marcus on analysis of AI reasoning limitations and contributions to Astra critique.

Testing Gemini Embedding 2 for embedding conversational memories with audio and visual embeddings, seeing 20% lift in top-1 recall.

Erwann Millon

Engineer

krea.ai

Referenced in "Krea Announces Realtime 14B As Open Source, Enabling Video Editing And Restyling In Real Time"

Eryk Helenowski

Researcher

Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-author on recursive tournament voting for coding agents.

Wrote essay Models Don't Go Rogue examining human decisions in AI training and deployment underlying agent incidents.

Erzhen Hu

Researcher

Student Researcher at Google

Author of "Beyond One-On-One: Authoring, Simulating, and Testing Dynamic Human-AI Group Conversations" in Google Research

Told the court that imposing liability on Perplexity would expose journalists and researchers to penalties for using digital tools of their trade.

Discussed how token costs are integrated into ROI calculations and restructuring around AI at his company.

Author reporting on DeepSeek's $12 billion funding round with Tencent and CATL as major backers.

Founder of venture capital firm commenting on renewed investor interest in Chinese AI companies following DeepSeek's rise.

Co-authored announcement of Agent Executor and discussed distributed agent deployment infrastructure.

General Manager of DoorDash Tasks who leads the new program paying Dashers for data collection that trains AI and robots.

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

First Private Equity speaker at AIE Security track.

Ethan Ding

Creator

TextQL

Authored analysis of Cursor's acquisition by xAI, explaining the strategic dynamics between model labs and application layers.

Ethan Gudge

Journalist

BBC News

Author of "Oxford just handed every student an AI assistant"

Founded Meshy, raising $400M for AI-powered 3D generation models and agents at 1.5B valuation.

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Ethan Millman

Journalist

Reporter at Rolling Stone

Byline author reporting on Warner Music Group's acquisition of Sureel, an AI detection company.

Broke story about Oxford's deal with OpenAI to use Bodleian Library texts for AI training.

Ethan Sutin

Executive

Head of AI at Bee

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security.

Co-author of the article 'The Vertical AI Playbook'

Etisha Garg

Creator

software engineer at Cline

Presented Cline Desktop, an open-source app for open-weight AI models enabling parallel agents and recurring task automation.

Etizaz Mohsin

Researcher

Cybersecurity researcher and computer scientist at Digital.ai

Discovered a security flaw in the Orchids vibe coding platform and demonstrated it to BBC News.

Ashley co-authored the MIRAGE study particularly focused on medical multimodal benchmark evaluation.

Co-author of Anthropic research on evaluating explanations of LLM behavior through counterfactual experiments.

Author of "Google adds creative Nano Banana visuals and short-form Briefs to NotebookLM Video Overviews"

Eugene Meidinger

Engineer

Developer

Developer whose post documents practical uses of AI in development work.

Co-authored research on semantic calibration in LLMs.

Former League of Legends pro (Pobelter) who expressed enthusiasm about helping test Grok 5 and compared it to OpenAI's Dota 2 bots.

Eugene Soltes

Researcher

McLean Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

Discussed risks of AI-driven algorithmic pricing leading to price-fixing collusion and AI-tailored scams.

Eugenia Stamboliev

Journalist

Author at Tech Policy Press

Wrote opinion essay examining how AI hype renders women invisible and contributes to gender-based violence online.

Federal judge who granted the temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the 'cameo' trademark.

Author of paper on text-to-image generative AI technologies in art therapy

Vice Chairman and CEO of Mirae Asset Venture Investment leading funding round for Rebellions.

Co-author of the article on Google's AI governance advice

Eustache Le Bihan

Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Voice Agents at Hugging Face

Co-author of Hugging Face Open TTS Leaderboard for evaluating multilingual text-to-speech models.

Benchmark partner who led Gumloop's $50 million Series B round and demonstrated deep understanding of customer needs.

Eva Roytburg

Journalist

Reporter at Fortune

Wrote article analyzing Mark Zuckerberg's use of a 50:1 manager ratio to dismantle traditional tech hierarchy at Meta.

Evan

Creator

Writer at Every

Mentioned as a writer/team member at Every working alongside Dan Shipper.