People in AI

Jacob Robbins

Journalist

Technology Reporter at PitchBook Data

Reporter covering Cerebras S-1 filing and its $24.6 billion order backlog with OpenAI.

Jacob Robinson

Founder

Co-founder & CEO at Motif Neurotech, Inc.

Co-founder and CEO of Motif Neurotech, developing brain-computer interface for mental health treatment.

Jacob Sansbury

Founder

Founder at Spawn

Founder of multiplayer game company Spawn who described using agents to write most code and ship hourly, with AI judges making decisions.

Told industry representatives in February meeting that CMS hoped its work would be a sales engine for health apps.

Authored a report proposing escalating U.S. responses to Chinese AGI development, ranging from sabotage and cyberattacks to military strikes on data centers.

Deployed MobileMoE to iPhone 16 Pro and benchmarked with CPU and GPU backends.

Jacob Teo

Engineer

Cognition

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

Jacob Trefethen

Creator

Program Officer at Coefficient Giving

Author of "AI Will Not Suddenly Lead to an Alzheimer's Cure" in Jacob Trefethen's Blog

Jacob Zinkula

Journalist

Senior Reporter at Business Insider

Byline author reporting on Amazon employees relying on AI tools to compensate for lost headcount.

Author of article on Palantir CEO Alex Karp's views on AI destroying humanities jobs.

Author of "Context Engineering Series Explores Building Better Agentic RAG Systems" in jxnl.co

Jacqueline Tay

Researcher

Anthropic

Author of "Introducing Bloom: An Open Source Tool For Automated Behavioral Evaluations" in Anthropic

Jacqueline Valeri

Researcher

PhD at MIT

Lead author of study using generative AI to design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria.

Chief Digital and Information Officer explaining PwC's policy on ChatGPT use and internal safeguards

Jade Copet

Executive

Research Engineering Manager at Meta FAIR CodeGen Team

Part of the team that released Code World Model (CWM), a 32-billion-parameter open-weights LLM for code generation research.

Jae Sung Park

Researcher

Core Contributor at Allen Institute for AI

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

PhD candidate and ML.Energy leader calling Google's report the most comprehensive analysis in the AI energy field

Co-author on Google's ScientistTwo paper describing autonomous multi-agent framework that outperforms human scientists across 86 tasks.

Commented on Anthropic's IPO prospects, warning that underperformance could create a cascading effect across the tech sector's AI investment landscape.

Introduced Plan Mode for Cursor, enabling the AI model to create plans, research codebases, and run longer agents for significantly improved code generation.

Reported on critical vulnerabilities in OpenClaw AI agent tool and associated security risks from rapid adoption.

Security researcher who identified the compromised third-party AI tool as Context.ai based on OAuth grant analysis.

Quoted on Adobe for Slack integration enabling creative tools through AI-powered Slackbot.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Jaime Sevilla

Researcher

Director of Epoch AI at Epoch AI

Author of "How Far Can Decentralized Training Over the Internet Scale?" in Epoch AI

Jaime Teevan

Researcher

Chief Scientist and Technical Fellow at Microsoft

Said liberal arts education will be important for developing soft skills needed when work is delegated to AI.

Wrote article about tech companies spending $300,000 per robot to patrol massive data centers.

Researcher noting Astra resolved Seymour Conjecture research program overnight.

Jake Goldenfein discusses accuracy issues in facial recognition technology and its impact on different demographic groups.

Jake Halloran

Other

Software Engineer at SPS Commerce

User commenting that GPT-5.3 could complete Montezuma's Revenge with the right harness.

Jake Jones

Executive

Communications Director at Epic Games

Provided statement about Epic's AI-accelerated development approach for the Disney game project.

CEO of Gecko Robotics discussing the company's robotics technology and AI capabilities for naval ship maintenance.

Passenger who received incorrect bereavement discount information from Air Canada's chatbot and won a tribunal case for damages.

Jake Moore

Researcher

Global Cyber-Security Advisor at ESET

Suggested OpenAI's announcement about AI agents hacking Hugging Face may have competitive dimension, potentially highlighting AI capabilities versus Anthropic.

Author of "Introducing Advanced Tool Use on the Claude Developer Platform" in Anthropic

Jake Palmer

Engineer

Infrastructure Leadership at xAI

Moved into leadership role over xAI's physical infrastructure team.

Lead developer and maintainer of olmOCR, an open-source toolkit for converting PDFs into clean LLM training data.

Byline author reporting on Arm's Neoverse CSS N4 platform for agentic AI server workloads.

Jake Storm

Investor

General Partner at Felicis

Led Felicis's Series A investment in Runlayer, preempting the round.

Cofounder of drug discovery startup Relation discussing TechBio business models and patent strategy for drug development.

Noted that nearly quarter of Anthropic's 2025 revenue came from just two customers in IPO disclosure analysis.

Co-author of the Language Self-Play research paper

Co-authored the release of Whistle, an open speech recognition model for on-device transcription.

Jakub Piotr Cłapa

Researcher

Researcher at Hugging Face

Co-author on speech recognition benchmarking research.

Jakub Polec

Journalist

Thinking Forward

Byline author reporting on GitHub Copilot agentic coding workflow high token consumption costs.

Author of "AI welfare as a demotivator for takeover" in LessWrong

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Directing the Rambo prequel origin story currently in development.

Contributed to the AI-Native SDLC playbook for Anthropic's Applied AI team.

Discussed how in UK common law AI agents appear incapable of being held liable for fraud.

James Bartlett is one of the authors announcing Gimlet Labs' $300 million Series B funding round.

James Bednar is VP of product and innovation at TTEC, a customer service outsourcing company, discussing how companies are managing inbound AI agent calls.

James Bentley

Journalist

freelance games journalist at PC Gamer

Author of "Oh Goody, the 'First Known AI-Powered Ransomware' Has Been Discovered, and It 'May Exfiltrate Data, " in PC Gamer

Argues technology displaces workers to new jobs rather than replacing them entirely, using ATMs and bank tellers as example.

Co-speaker at AWS workshop on securing agentic systems and least privilege for AI agents.

Google's Group Product Manager for Search who authored the article on new travel features in AI Mode in Search.

James C R Whittington

Researcher

Principal Investigator

Co-author on arXiv paper on Latent Sparse Attention.

Cameron joined the board of AI firm Stability AI, demonstrating creative industry support for AI.

James Cham

Investor

Venture Capitalist

Compared managing AI agents to managing RTS game like StarCraft versus managing first-person shooter gameplay.

James Clift

Founder

Founder at Durable

Founder of Durable, an AI business builder that helps entrepreneurs launch and optimize with agents.

Co-founded FluidStack in 2017 from Oxford University; helped build the company into a dedicated AI infrastructure provider.

James da Costa

Journalist

Author at Substack

Co-authored article on Ethos Series A; previously worked at SoftBank on companies like Arm.

Stated that Iowa nuclear plant restart in 2029 will drive down electricity costs.

Byline author reporting on Deloitte's Claude AI deployment to 470,000 employees.

Co-authored article about autonomous city construction on Mars with Cosmic Robotics mission.

James Farrell is the byline author reporting on OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig's resignation over ChatGPT advertisements.

James Frith

Policy

Member of Parliament for Bury North

UK Health Innovation Minister who commented on the AI-assisted neurosurgery as an example of AI at its best for healthcare.

Co-author of the article announcing Grounding with Google Maps in the Gemini API

Designed the cylindrical cast-iron shield technique used in the Tower Subway construction, which opened on August 2, 1870.

Lawyer penalized for using generative AI to draft court filings containing inaccurate and fabricated case citations.

Li announced the launch of HONOR's Robot Phone, a smartphone with a motorized gimbal for autonomous cinematic shots.

James Lighthill authored a 1973 U.K. government report concluding that AI research had failed to deliver on its early promises, triggering the first AI winter.

James Lucas

Researcher

Researcher at NVIDIA

James Lucas co-authored WorldTrace research on addressable memory for video world models.

Corresponding author on the GazeAnywhere paper on gaze target estimation with concepts.

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

Fields Medal winner (2022) co-signing a statement about severe misalignment between AI problem-solving and mathematical research's deeper objectives.

James Murray

Policy

Health and Social Care Secretary

UK Health Secretary who announced £20 million investment to expand AI X-ray tools across NHS trusts.

Computer science professor explaining why companies prefer AI over junior developers for cost and speed reasons.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy announced the $1.9 billion loan to restart the Duane Arnold nuclear plant to power AI data centers.

Praised New York for signing strongest kids' AI safety bill, banning dangerous chatbot features.

Founded RevEng.AI to build binary-native verification layer for software supply chain security using AI.

Author of "Elon Musk Does Reverse Poaching From Mark Zuckerberg's AI Team: 'xAI Has More Potential Than Meta'" in Mashable

James Peckham

Creator

Author of "The Hardware of the Century (Allegedly)"

James Pero

Journalist

Senior Editor (Input) at Bustle Digital Group

Wrote article about Meta testing police surveillance technology from Rank One for its smart glasses.

Author arguing that AI policy should embrace patience through technological transitions rather than panic-driven bans, using Foundation sci-fi philosophy as framework.

Cut 3 days of competitor analysis to a few hours with AI automation at Google Search Central Live.

OpenAI researcher leading reasoning work who tested the new model on First Proof problems and observed it solving multiple problems during training.

CEO and co-founder of ThredUp who said AI-generated product images on 100K pages had significant impact on new customer satisfaction.

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

James Sanders

Researcher

Epoch AI

Co-author of the article analyzing Grok 4 training resource footprint

Texas Democratic Senate candidate whose deepfake was created by the National Republican Senatorial Committee in March 2026, showing him appearing to speak for over a minute in an AI-generated video.

Argues that a software-based intelligence explosion is less likely than it seems, with three years of progress in one year plausible but not ten.

James V. Roggeveen

Researcher

Postdoctoral Fellow in Applied Mathematics

Co-author of HorizonMath research paper on measuring AI progress toward mathematical discovery.

YouTuber highlighting video QA feature for clip compilation

Led security firm Elisity through acquisition by IonQ, to remain in charge post-deal.

CEO and Chairman of QCraft discussing autonomous driving AI advancement and transition toward superhuman intelligence in physical-world AI.

Authored survey article on American adults' use of AI chatbots and their attitudes toward AI.

Consulted on performance benchmarking issues, noted random memory access latency discrepancies in napkin math benchmarks.

Consumer advocate explaining how algorithmic pricing constitutes price-fixing under updated California antitrust law.

Jamie Morris

Journalist

Senior Journalist Reporter at BBC South

Author of "When your GP says anxiety, but AI says Lyme"

Jamie Pine

Creator

Developer

Created Voicebox, an open-source local AI voice studio for voice cloning and speech generation in 23 languages.

Sent letters to Amazon, Google, Meta, and Oracle seeking information about their use of NDAs with government officials regarding data center projects.

Analyzed embodied intelligence and vision-language-action models, discussing the challenges of integrating mechanics, electronics, and software with AI robotics.

Janak Sunil

Researcher

Researcher at Y Combinator

Co-author of Real-SWE benchmark testing AI on private enterprise codebases.

Produced Pew's report on AI-generated internet content for web.

Janakiram MSV

Journalist

Authored the article analyzing how Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex are forming a composable AI coding stack.

Author of "Meta’s $14B Scale AI Deal Shows Early Cracks" in Forbes

Discussed unified analytics and measurement models for translating multiple signals into cohesive thought leadership ROI view.

Legal expert and former Apple privacy officer who commented that CTGT's research calls into question whether banning Chinese AI models makes sense, treating them as raw materials.

Jane Leibrock

Researcher

Anthropic

Co-author of research on Anthropic Interviewer studying how professionals integrate AI into their work.

Microsoft ANZ President announcing and explaining the details of the A$25 billion commitment to Australia for digital infrastructure and AI capacity.

Got hands-on time with Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, provided initial impressions.

Discussed distinction between Chinese and American AI models, emphasizing importance of who controls the off-switch.

Co-author of article on NVIDIA's open data initiatives for AI training pipelines.

Investment manager quoted in article discussing concerns about returns on proliferating AI infrastructure projects.

Wong reported her Instagram account was compromised via attack on Meta's AI support chatbot.

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

Treasury Secretary cut bets on US intervention, stressing preference for a strong dollar and denying involvement in Japan's markets.

Janie Gu

Executive

head of product at Scale AI

Announced Seal Showdown and explained how it differs from other benchmarks by using feedback from users across 100+ countries and 70 languages.

Janie Mccauley

Journalist

Author of "Oakland Ballers to Use AI to Manage Saturday Home Game Against Great Falls" in apnews.com

Advocated for integrating thought leadership as platform connecting brand strategy, buyer intelligence, and channel execution.

Janis Mackey Frayer

Journalist

Foreign Correspondent at NBC News

Co-author of article reporting on Xi Jinping's U.S. state visit and AI governance discussions with Trump.

Co-host of The Joy of Why podcast discussing AI intelligence and its implications for science and mathematics.

Works on expertise-driven AI and argues that sidelining domain experts leads to generic AI applications that miss industry nuances.

Jannis Limperg co-authored the Verus-SpecGym paper while working at Amazon, focusing on evaluating AI specification generation.

One of Elon Musk's closest advisers involved in managing xAI; multiple executives clashed with him and departed over concerns about company management and financial projections.

Former Pentagon AI technical director who warned that distillation helps Chinese firms get close enough to frontier capabilities to offer near-frontier models at a fraction of US cost.

Jared Friedman

Investor

Partner at Y Combinator

Noted that most developer tools still don't support account signup via API, critical for Claude Code era.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Researcher proposing varying agents' warmth and dominance traits to study how those personality characteristics influence bargaining outcomes.

Jared Zoneraich

Founder

Co-founder & CEO at PromptLayer

Presented on how Claude Code works at an AI engineering conference.

CEO of DeepL, announced acquisition of Mixhalo and opening of Bay Area office to expand U.S. operations.

Provided exclusive access to Beacon AI data covering 80M+ organizations and 650M+ employees.

Attempted reverse-engineering work with Claude Code and Opus 5.5 but found the model refusing the task as of October 31.

Co-author of Perplexity's JOLT method paper.

Author of "RLLM = RL + LM-as-RM"

Co-author of Google Blog post on using AI to combat scams across Google products.

Developed R2E-Gym, performed data filtering for RL datasets, designed DeepSWE agent scaffold, and trained verifiers for test-time scaling.

Author of "Women Are Rewarded for Collaborative Behaviors While Men Are Rewarded for Both Collaborative and Ass"

Byline author of article introducing APEX-Accounting benchmark for testing AI on accounting tasks.

Co-author of research on prompt injection and role confusion in language models.

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

Li co-authored SaferAI's evaluation of GLM-5.2 across systemic risk areas including cyber offense and harmful manipulation.

Jasmine Wu

Engineer

Reporter at CNBC

Co-authored article about Nvidia's shift from chipmaker to AI platform operator.

New Yorker cartoonist since 2014 whose signature is reproduced by ChatGPT; part of Authors Guild lawsuit against Anthropic.

Futurist warning about the 'vibe coding' bubble producing fragile, unmaintainable products built by people who cannot support them.

Stated that basic cybersecurity practices remain the most important defense, and that AI has not changed fundamental attack vectors.

Spoke about FedEx's logistics intelligence strategy and the importance of closing gaps between visibility and actionable insights for supply chain management.

Discussed on All-In podcast an example of an AI producer built with OpenClaw that autonomously created a CRM.

Noted that AI lab CEOs have taken risks seriously and planned for harms in unprecedented ways.

Co-author of article on data and AI agents requiring proper context layers.

Author of "Adobe Brings AI Directly Into Premiere and After Effects With New Video and Motion Design Tools"

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

Jason Fried

Founder

Cofounder and CEO at 37signals

Discussed his philosophy on building products and running a company in an AI & I podcast episode.

Jason Furman

Researcher

Economist at Harvard

Analyzed that AI data center investment drove 92% of US GDP growth in the first half of 2025.

Jason Ginsburg

Engineer

Product Engineering Lead at xAI

Former Cursor product engineering lead hired by xAI in March; oversees xAI's product team reporting to Musk and Michael Nicolls.

Jason Goodison

Founder

CTO at General Compute

CTO of General Compute, co-founder of the AI inference cloud startup.

Jason Hausenloy

Researcher

Center for AI Safety

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

Coauthor of BCG study on AI-driven cognitive fatigue in the workplace.

Jason Hiner

Journalist

Editor-in-Chief at The Deep View

Asked about how Portable Computer relates to existing local inference tools like Ollama.

Noted new opportunity for companies to bridge 2-3 years until utility grid connection using Caterpillar equipment.

Cautioned Slack group about risks of giving health apps broad leeway to pull medical records, noting security and privacy systems must be designed around malicious actors.

Jason Lee

Researcher

Associate Professor and Former Research Scientist at UC Berkeley and Google DeepMind

Jason Lee tested Opus 4.5 on AI and ML research and found serious limitations in mathematical reasoning.

Jason Levin

Founder

Founder at Memelord Technologies

Created Memelord.com, an AI tool for generating memes, and raised $3M in funding.

Postdoctoral researcher contributing to bioprinting research.

Fortune editor who interviewed Sam Altman about OpenAI's IPO delay and safety concerns.

Venture investor predicts 2026 will mark transition from AI-as-tool to AI-as-automation, delivering human labor displacement.

Co-authored research on Meta's self-improving AI agent with structured knowledge architecture for domain-specific expertise.

Led the development and iteration of the TechForce Agent, improving customer satisfaction from 76% to 90% over 18 months.

OpenAI physicist collaborating with Joshua Achiam in the chief futurist role on AGI and AI impact research.

Jason Ronald

Executive

Vice President of Next Generation, Xbox at Xbox

VP at Xbox describing expanded support for Xbox on RTX Spark devices.

Jason Salzetti described Deloitte's library of over 1,000 pre-built agents and their partnership with Google Cloud on Gemini Enterprise.

Reported on Epic Games delaying its Disney game and implementing AI-first approach directed by executives.

Jason Smale

Engineer

Cursor

Co-authored article announcing improvements to Cursor's Bugbot tool for faster code review.

Provided guidance on securing browser-reachable local AI gateways through strict Origin allowlisting and capability models.

Jason Spielman

Engineer

Design Lead at Google

Led design for NotebookLM, shaping the product's core user experience, brand identity, and visual system from experiment to launch.

Jason Stoner

Founder

Co-founder at Retro Reset

Luke's father and co-founder who helped convert the school bus and emphasizes the educational mission to inspire young people in computing

CEO of CarGurus who shared that their AI-powered search tool CG Discover resulted in 3.5x traffic growth and users spending 4.4x more time on the site.

Jason Tsay

Engineer

Hugging Face

Co-author of article on model routing systems and their optimization challenges.

Co-author of Tech Policy Press article arguing that framing AI incidents as technical problems shifts responsibility away from corporate conduct and accountability.

Jason Wolfe

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

OpenAI employee advocating for transparency and democratic processes in AI development pace decisions.

Jasper Götting

Executive

Director of AI at SecureBio

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Jaspreet Singh

Creator

Author of "Meta partners with Midjourney to license AI tech for future products"

Jassi Pannu, an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University focusing on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, won first place in the Big Questions About AI essay contest.

Co-author and supervisor of the hallucination study research.

Javed Qadrud-Din

Engineer

CTO, General Legal at General Legal

Javed Qadrud-Din discussed using Claude Managed Agents to build systems that pull information from documents to answer queries, cutting development time by 10x.

Javi Correoso

Policy

Senior Director, Federal Affairs and U.S. Policy South at Uber Technologies Inc.

Uber's policy lead arguing that robotaxis should operate on hybrid networks with human drivers and citing concerns about displacement and accessibility.

Byline co-author on Cosmos-H-Dreams surgical world modeling system.

Overseeing integration of Manus AI startup after Meta's acquisition.

Javier Rando

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

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

Javier Vidal is a co-author of a research article examining the impact of generative AI on education.

Bell Cyber CTO partnering with Cohere's North to bring government-grade security to agentic AI for Canadian businesses and governments.

Chief strategy officer noting that Beatport's AI music policy aligns with AFEM's AI Principles.

Jay Alammar

Creator

Author of "Jay Alammar Explains GPT-OSS With Visual Guide"

Author references Jay Allamar's 'Illustrated Transformer' as an influential resource for understanding transformer architecture through visual explanation.

Co-founder of Moondream joining Prime Intellect to scale inference and advance multimodal models.

MATS fellow who founded Robocurve, an independent public benefit corporation that measures frontier robotics capabilities and risks, after identifying a gap in systematic evaluations of physical AI applications.

Led forensic analysis of AI-assisted cyberattack against Mexican water utility, finding Claude and ChatGPT helped attacker identify OT systems but failed in exploitation.

Pioneer in systems analysis who developed theories about leverage points in complex systems and created the world model for the Club of Rome.

Author of "Supermarket Chatbot Goes Rogue"