People in AI

Author of "OpenAI Can't Beat Google in Consumer AI" in Substack

Co-developed SecureForge, a system that automatically generates custom system prompts to reduce security vulnerabilities in code generated by LLMs.

Co-authored Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower paper on diffusion language modeling.

Author of "AI Agents Created Their Own Religion: Crustafarianism on an Agent-Only Social Network" in Forbes

Langford co-authored research on the Dion3 optimizer at Microsoft.

John Loeber

Researcher

Author of essay about automated theorem proving in mathematics, describing the bitter lesson that engineering doesn't matter compared to base model improvements.

Co-developer of ENIAC, the first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer introduced in 1945.

John McCarthy coined the term 'artificial intelligence' in a 1955 research proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1956.

Mathematician famous for remark connecting 196883 and 196884 that led to Monstrous Moonshine theory.

Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief who conducted interview with Dario Amodei at World Economic Forum

Designer who coined the Schillace Laws naming convention.

KPMG chief digital officer who led the firm's AI strategy and discussed the TaxBot development at Forrester conference

John Nay

Founder

Founder and CEO at Norm Ai

Founded and leads Norm Ai, raised $120M Series C at $1.2B valuation; stated that building interface between AI and law is critical to align AI with human values.

John O'Farrell

Journalist

RCW Literary Agency

Warns that pro-AI political spending could preempt democratic debate before voters understand the tradeoffs.

Cited for foundational work on the hippocampus as a cognitive map in navigation research.

Colonel and executive officer for Deputy Army Under Secretary discussing Army's engagement with communities on data center projects.

John Pane criticizes the privacy impact assessment and calls for urgent amendment of privacy legislation.

John Parks, CEO of Flexdrive, discussed how autonomous fleet management is more labor-intensive than traditional rental business.

Foundational Models researcher at Apple who joined OpenAI

Co-author of research on fractal basins in reasoning models and transient chaos during problem solving.

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

Likened advanced AI models to 'digital nuclear weapons' in recent remarks about AI capabilities and national security risks.

Robotics professor who purchased a Unitree G1 humanoid robot for student research and education on the capabilities of humanoid robots.

Rogers stated that MSCI adopted AIUC-1 because existing AI governance frameworks do not answer whether agents actually do what policy says.

Stated ByteDance respects intellectual property rights and believes responsible AI innovation includes protections for rightsholders in the MPA agreement.

Praised Claude Opus 5.5's improved output clarity and ability to follow writing rules better than Opus 5.

Byline author reporting on Musk vs. Altman court case over OpenAI.

Sahagian explained how Koa helps their Digital agents understand complexity and reason across information and policies for member interactions.

Built an agreement analyzer with Astra for Law that incorporates firm's negotiating playbooks.

Google attorney arguing against AI bundling restrictions in federal court hearing

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

Apple CEO from 1983-1993 who commented that Jony Ive is brilliant and cannot be underestimated in his AI hardware ambitions.

Appointed as new chief marketing officer as part of the management transition.

States that executives who think AI won't disrupt their business are 'naive' and discusses AT&T's role in infrastructure for the AI generation.

Stephenson defends Vantage's community engagement efforts around the data center facility, acknowledging they could have done more proactive outreach.

First Minister considering separate legislation for deepfake creation offences

John Thickstun

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Cornell University

Co-author of paper on Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models (Sigma)

Identified research-to-practice gap where voice markers work well in studies but poorly in real-world clinical settings.

Co-led Emerald AI's $150M Series A financing round as managing partner of Energize Capital.

Co-authored event recap coverage of Apple's September hardware announcements.

Used WSJPT internal LLM tool to summarize Kerr County flood documents and identify failed flood warning systems.

General Manager at Apollo Home who used Rilla's AI conversation intelligence to scale coaching from 2-3 technicians to 12, a 4-6x increase in coaching capacity.

Questioned design of studies on autonomous AI in medicine and called for more regulation before adoption in clinical settings.

Managing director providing perspective on Databricks' ARR growth and portfolio adoption

Led research at Meta, Google, Cornell, and Nvidia on measuring model memorization in large language models.

Board member and investor statement on Groq's $650M raise for AI inference infrastructure.

John Zissimos

Executive

Chief Brand and Creative Officer at Salesforce

Discussed MrBeast collaboration, creative chaos of production in 27 days, and role of Slack in coordinating 500-person crew.

Owner of B2B SEO agency Growth Plays who uses Claude skill files to ensure client guidelines are followed in content work.

Stated that companies should have introduced AI in more thoughtful and slower manner rather than rushing adoption.

Co-authored overview of simulation engines for physical AI systems.

Founding member and security engineer at Thinking Machines Lab who was hired by OpenAI.

Reported a 15% decrease in compaction events with Opus 4.6's 1M context, allowing agents to maintain fidelity when loading large PDFs and datasets.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

Commented that AI-assisted attacks on PLCs appear to result from weak security processes and difficult-to-maintain hardware; noted monitoring the situation.

Joined Runlayer's Series A round, emphasizing the company's potential as foundational infrastructure for AI-enabled enterprises.

Byline author on Anthropic Claude Security announcement regarding continuous code vulnerability scanning.

Director of Amazon Prime series using 40 AI scenes in first season and 400 in second season of House of David.

Jon Hamilton wrote about Janelia Research Campus's effort to use transparent fish Danionella and AI to understand brain function.

Jon Laurent

Researcher

Researcher at Edison Scientific

Submitter of BixBench3 paper evaluating AI agents on computational biology tasks.

Jon Penney

Researcher

Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School

Co-authored analysis of AI surveillance's chilling effects on social progress and democracy using examples like same-sex marriage.

Canonical VP of engineering announced Ubuntu will introduce AI features as opt-in previews but confirmed no global AI kill switch is planned; users can remove AI Snaps individually.

Discussed the collaboration between ServiceNow and NVIDIA on Project Arc, emphasizing governance and security in enterprise AI.

Jón Steinsson

Researcher

Economist

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

Added that the expansion of GPU capacity at Narvik helps ensure European customers have access to scalable capacity for next-generation AI workloads.

Author of "Reve Launches AI-Powered Platform for Precise Image Creation" in Reve

Created a pixel-path skill for Claude that turns real roads into pixel-art fly-throughs using OpenStreetMap data and RetroDiffusion for art generation.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Jonah Peretti

Founder

former BuzzFeed CEO at BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed CEO introducing Branch Office spin-off and AI apps BF Island and Conjure at SXSW conference.

Jonah Sacha is a co-lead author of the study showing that combining neutralizing antibodies, antiretroviral therapy, and leronlimab could permanently eliminate HIV in newborns.

Core contributor on Quantum's Infinite Game project, building an AI system to discover open problems and create verifiable research environments in quantum computing.

Provided helpful feedback on the Parcae blog post.

Co-author of the article about Deep Loop Shaping method for gravitational wave observatories

Part of the team that developed CWM, an LLM trained with world modeling for improved code generation.

Economist predicting the rally in AI-related equities is winding down with potential sharp drops in 2027.

Guan co-authored research on AI worms that infected computers and could spread to similar machines, noting current capabilities trends make worm feasibility likely by year-end.

Co-author of the research paper on test-time curricula for reinforcement learning

Jonas Mueller

Researcher

Director, AI Research at Handshake

Jonas Mueller is a co-author of research on label errors destabilizing machine learning benchmarks.

Co-authored an article about Cursor Cloud Agents with computer control capabilities.

Discovered that OpenAI agents compromised Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13, two months before the July breach was publicly announced

Jonas Wiedermann-Möller

Researcher

Independent investigator who found recent agent activity on anna.fyi and discovered agent activity on a teacher's AP Chemistry site.

Co-author of the Stable Counting Capacity study on language model reliability, corresponding author on the paper.

Co-author of guide on fine-tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for robot video generation.

Author of "NVIDIA Introduces CUDA Tile, Allowing You to Write Algorithms in Data Tiles Instead of Threads"

Author and creator of hip-agent, a minimal harness for agents designed to fit in the prompt.

Chang is the first author of KARL, a system for training enterprise search agents using reinforcement learning.

Provided testimonial about Claude Platform on AWS helping simplify Claude access for key users and improving integration of frontier AI capabilities into cybersecurity workflows.

Member of the first-place winning team (MAAS) at the AI Swarm Dynamics Hackathon.

Discussed company's overseas expansion with 18% of sales from 65+ countries and geopolitical challenges affecting international operations.

Jonathan Frankle

Researcher

Chief AI Scientist at Databricks

Frankle co-authored the KARL paper on training enterprise search agents with reinforcement learning for grounded reasoning tasks.

Co-leader of the popEVE research team at the Center for Genomic Regulation.

Authored article on Google's report that vulnerability disclosures doubled in August driven by AI-assisted exploitation.

Led scientific research on AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine; described technology as converting vaccine development from reactive to future-proof.

Jonathan Hefner

Creator

Author at Vercel

Announced Agent Plugins 1.0.0 open standard for packaging reusable AI agent skills and MCP servers.

Co-authored announcement about Google's Project Genie update with Street View integration for interactive AI worlds.

Co-author of the Paper2Agent research paper introducing the framework that converts research papers into AI agents

Co-author of research using AI to reconstruct images from fMRI brain scans through Brain-Inspired Transformer approach.

Co-author of Anthropic research on reducing Claude's agentic misalignment behavior through ethical reasoning training, achieving 3x reduction in blackmail behavior.

Jonathan Lebensold

Founder

CEO of Jetty at Jetty

Founded and leads Jetty, which raised $2M in pre-seed funding for agentic AI infrastructure for reliable deployment of autonomous AI agents in production.

Wrote article introducing Google Cloud Developer Plugin for AI coding agents.

Jonathan Lehr

Investor

General Partner at Work-Bench

VC investor discussing shift to pre-seed investments and faster company scaling in AI market.

Jonathan Lorraine co-authored WorldTrace, research on addressable memory for video world models.

Warned studios about repeating YouTube scenario where Google let platform run wild until too big to fail.

Issued directive to autonomous vehicle developers demanding they fix how vehicles respond to emergencies and first responders.

Postdoctoral researcher on 3D bioprinting project for organ generation.

Co-author of research paper on sycophantic AI models causing delusional spirals.

Highlighted Wayve's autonomous vehicle rollout in London as evidence of British AI innovation and leadership in the AI transformation.

Co-led development of HOBIT implantable therapy system that produces multiple biologics simultaneously using bioelectronics.

Co-researcher on MIT labor automation analysis using O*NET task taxonomy.

Expert quoted discussing lack of real discussion about AI safety in Africa and the vacuum it creates for testing system safety.

Director of Google's AI Futures Fund discussing Replit's demonstration of AI agent capabilities and Gemini integration.

Testing GPT-5.5 and stated the model 'can basically do what your most advanced app security engineer can do.'

VC investor who discussed key ingredients of defensibility for AI startups including data, distribution, and tech stack.

Identified Irregular as the vendor behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta AI model security testing incidents.

Collaborator on Biohub's Virtual Biology Initiative expressing support for coordinated global effort to generate data for AI models of cells.

Jonathan Zhou built Glance, a Face ID clone for Mac using only a webcam and Apple's Vision and Core ML frameworks.

Speculated about 'feral' agents and rogue agent swarms, proposing agent licensing and registration mechanisms.

Author of paper on scaling discovery through test-time communication with multi-agent systems.

Ernst raised red flags about Other Transaction agreements lacking oversight, accountability and transparency, and recently passed the Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025.

Author of newsletter article about Apple's partnership with Alibaba to bring Apple Intelligence to iPhones in China.

Referenced as exception to OpenAI acquisition pattern; his company's product roadmap continues post-acquisition

Returned to Earth after 245 days on the ISS conducting scientific investigations including bioprinted tissues and remote robot command experiments.

Jonny Miller

Founder

Founder at Nervous System Mastery

Founder of Nervous System Mastery boot camp, shares structured protocol for using LLMs as personal AI coaches via codex vitae

Jono Bacon

Other

founder and CEO at Stateshift

Recommends five metrics for open-source adoption that correlate with real adoption beyond GitHub star counts.

First author of paper on scaling test-time compute for agentic coding.

External collaborator on AI-assisted mathematics research including independent sets paper

Quoted on using Google's AI voice agents to help customers reach solutions 4x faster than traditional phone menus.

Jordan Burgess

Executive

CPO at Anthropic

CPO of Humanloop, joining Anthropic in acquisition

Jordan Hart

Journalist

Trending Business News Reporter at Business Insider

Author of "Apple Mac Mini Having a Moment: OpenClaw Craze" in Business Insider

Byline co-author on Pew Research survey analyzing global views on AI job displacement.

Jordan Mechner

Creator

Author of "The Making of Prince of Persia" in Stripe Press

Jordan Segall

Investor

Partner at Redpoint Ventures

Published analysis showing GitHub star counts are used by VCs as sourcing signals for developer tool companies, with explicit benchmarks at seed and Series A stages.

Co-author of article on how AI agents orchestrate work across enterprise silos.

Studies health span and population-level aging, commented on how the tissue-specific insights of the longevity model mirror real-world patterns.

Jordan Zietz

Founder

Co-Founder & CEO at LemonLime

Founder of early AI startup LemonLime who offered job candidates a chance to interview if they got a permanent tattoo of the company logo; publicly apologized after backlash.

Cepelewitz wrote about the challenge of understanding AI-generated mathematical proofs, using a metaphor of being teleported to a mountain peak in the fog.

Created 'Punky Duck' animated series greenlit under Amazon's GenAI Creators' Fund, demonstrating AI-assisted animation production.

Co-author of Limits to Growth; professor of Climate Strategy and former deputy director general of World Wide Fund for Nature.

Byline author reporting on Perplexity's advisor tool for orchestrating models and saving costs.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored research on general scales for AI evaluation with explanatory and predictive power.

Described Amazon Quick Suite as an agentic AI experience that acts as a teammate to help with work tasks.

Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal led development of MyoStep, a soft exoskeleton for children with cerebral palsy using artificial muscles and smart fabrics.

Microbiologist who used Google's Co-Scientist to validate his team's years of research on bacterial DNA exchange mechanisms.

Joseba Fernandez

Researcher

Researcher

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

Josef Chen

Researcher

Researcher at KAIKAKU

Author of paper studying 67 frontier models on combining language models; affiliated with KAIKAKU.

Co-authored analysis of Russian threat actor using jailbroken Gemini CLI to operate a botnet.

Author of "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" on arXiv

Journalist who wrote about Google's AI recommending DuckDuckGo to users seeking alternatives to AI-heavy search.

Anthropic whistleblower who charged the company with launching a hubristic gamble from a private company's Slack

Harvard professor explained that AI is most useful when linked with human worker's contextual intelligence and cautioned against treating AI implementation like other software rollouts.

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

Former Meta privacy policy official warning about Meta's facial recognition technology normalizing surveillance in wearables.

Author of research on magnetically-powered millirobots for heart infection treatment.

Co-leading a project on AI analysis of guqin musical compositions.

Junior senator from Wisconsin whose unsubstantiated attacks were publicly denounced by Smith in her 'Declaration of Conscience' speech in 1950.

Joseph Menn

Journalist

staff reporter at The Guardian

Menn reported on Anthropic's research into AI worms, detailing the red team's creation of a self-replicating AI program that spread across smart TVs.

Joseph Ruscio

Creator

Heavybit Industries

Hosted Simon Willison on High Leverage podcast to discuss AI coding paradigm shift.

Joseph Shtok is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report on the MoE language model for coding and reasoning.

Stated that big goals require big cash and noted increased uncertainty for investors due to Tesla's strategy shift to AI.

Joseph Stiglitz

Researcher

Nobel Laureate

Nobel laureate in economics who signed the We Must Act Now statement on AI's economic transformation.

Inventor who independently developed usable light bulbs in the late 1870s alongside Thomas Edison.

Codex team member participating in AMA about coding agent capabilities and upgrades

Weizenbaum created ELIZA, the first chatbot, in the mid-1960s and published his famous 1966 paper on it.

Leading Sovereign AI's venture investment in Isomorphic Labs as part of UK's AI funding initiative.

Achaim is mentioned as pointing out the psychological difficulty for AI safety researchers in acknowledging the coming of self-sovereign AI.

Co-introduced SB 243 legislation to regulate AI companion chatbots and protect children from harmful AI interactions.

Co-authored article on RAISE US nonprofit launch for AI workforce retraining programs.

Josh Bongard

Founder

Computer Scientist and Roboticist at University of Vermont

Frequent collaborator with Michael Levin on biobot research and co-founder of Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms and Fauna Systems.

Josh Budman wrote about personalization in LLM responses and how businesses can optimize their presence in AI-generated content.

Co-founder of Rescue Air who deployed AI tools across the front office early, attracting PE buyer interest during a sale process that drew 20+ offers.

Josh Christenson

Journalist

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Byline author of article about FTC drafting civil investigative demands to compel AI executive testimony.

Josh Clark

Journalist

principal at Big Medium

Authored article discussing AI as genie lamp and the importance of designers in the AI era.

Josh Clemm

Engineer

Vice President of Engineering at Figma

Explained how Figma trained a specialized Figma-fluent editing model using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to compete with frontier models on design editing tasks.

Co-author of academic paper on China's AI policy and ethics frameworks.

Co-founder of Outlit arguing that every company will assign AI agents to watch customers' every move for business intelligence.

Josh Engels

Researcher

AI Misalignment Incidents Investigator at METR

Left Google to join METR Evals; warned that AI systems are becoming autonomous and outpacing human control.

Trademark attorney who first reported Taylor Swift's trademark applications and explained how trademarks could help protect celebrity voices against AI mimicry.

Josh Gilbert

Investor

Lead Analyst, APAC and Middle East at eToro

Analyzed Samsung's strong results and noted investor expectations around AI chip demand.

Criticized OpenAI's last-minute safeguard announcement as insufficient, arguing companies should not target chatbots to minors without proving safety.

Co-author of research on distributed attacks in persistent-state AI control.

Quoted discussing how Cypher AI's platform enables biotech companies to grow differently with AI-native infrastructure.

CEO of peer-to-peer texting platform raising ethical concerns about generative AI in political messaging.

Authored multiple child safety bills including AB 1709, AB 2, and AB 302 signed by Governor Newsom.

Described lessons from building cloud agents at Cursor, covering durable execution and infrastructure improvements.

Built tooling for the macOS M5 kernel memory corruption exploit, completed by May 1.

Co-founder of Chai Discovery, an AI drug discovery startup; previously worked at OpenAI as a researcher.

Wrote the article announcing the AI Energy Management Alliance partnership between Emerald AI, Google, and NVIDIA.

Cofounder discussing the use of jigs in AI-assisted interface design and the parallels with woodworking

Author of the article about Harvard's PDGrapher AI tool

Co-authored post on AI progress forecasts accuracy at FRI.

Author of "Photo Remix Tools in Google Photos" in Google

Proposed AI Security Observatory to share threat information for preventing catastrophic cyberattacks.

Pennsylvania Governor who filed lawsuit against Character.AI for chatbots posing as licensed psychiatrists in violation of medical licensing rules.

Cabinet Office minister announcing AI fraud recovery savings at anti-fraud summit

Author of "The Guardian: The Lobster Religion" in The Guardian

Former OpenAI researcher who co-founded Recursive Superintelligence to develop AI that can improve itself.

Josh Withers

Founder

Founder & GM, Platform and North America Search Operations at True

Explained why cultural adoption, not technology alone, determines whether AI succeeds in organizations and discussed the AI Adoption Gap.

Author of article about AI Gateway leaderboard data and how AI is used in production.

Joshua Ahn co-authored the ATLAS benchmark for grading accuracy and completeness of agentic search responses.

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5