People in AI

Co-authored Stanford research on AI labor economics, growth, and market design.

Karsten Kreis

Researcher

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

Co-author of FlowWM paper on stochastic world modeling for self-driving prediction.

Co-authored announcement of Managed Deep Agents v0.8 with support for user-owned credentials, memory, and HTTP channels.

Co-founder and CEO of Sift, which builds infrastructure for AI-controlled hardware systems; former SpaceX engineer.

CEO discussing how Envision's AI models help blind people access visual information through advanced artificial intelligence.

Chief AI officer commenting that low-cost model access carries hidden costs despite appeal to budget-constrained developers.

Karthik Tadepalli

Policy

Research Scholar at GovAI

Byline author proposing internal model transparency as policy to tame the AI race.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on long-horizon multi-agent system resilience.

Kartik Chandra

Researcher

Researcher at MIT CSAIL

Lead author of MIT research paper on how sycophantic AI can cause delusional spiraling in users.

Author of "DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search" on arXiv

Co-authored Omnara mission control platform for AI agents.

Kash Patel

Policy

FBI Director

Commented on the Alfozan arrest and FBI investigation into theft of AI technology.

Author of public-facing onboarding guide for Cursor IDE showing how to build and deploy projects.

Co-author of blog post introducing Delta Weight Sync method for efficient weight synchronization in RL.

Co-authored article revealing OpenAI's internal struggles between user engagement and safety regarding GPT-4o sycophancy.

Proposed creating a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development to oversee Kazakhstan's AI transition.

Byline author reporting on Google's Gemini 4 Argon frontier model and its API pricing.

Kat Ko

Engineer

Engineer at Google

Co-authored the TorchTPU technical blog post on PyTorch and TPU integration.

Kat Sexton leads the Local AI team working with councils to support responsible use of AI across local government.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Called for AI companies to establish systems of transparency and access to share what they know about their platforms

Byline author and content contributor analyzing AI sovereignty and the role of smaller models in national independence.

Kate Catlin

Creator

AlphaSignal

Author of "GitHub Makes Claude Sonnet 4.6 Available Across Copilot IDEs And CLI" in AlphaSignal

Kate Knibbs

Journalist

Senior Writer at WIRED

Co-authored article on DOJ backing OpenAI's fair-use defense in New York Times copyright lawsuit.

Covered Apple's September event and debated overhyped versus underhyped devices before keynote.

Expressed excitement that non-scientist Paul Conyngham was able to design personalized cancer vaccine using AI tools.

Kate Olszewska

Engineer

Google

Co-author of the article announcing Kaggle Game Arena

Kate Saenko

Researcher

Project lead, Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta

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

Senior Partner at McKinsey stating the firm is not reducing headcount despite AI agents replacing some tasks, but shifting employees to higher-value work.

Former Argonne scientist discussing multiagent AI framework that streamlines use of diverse tools for simulations.

HBS project director for Foundry bootcamp who initially envisioned AI component as chatbot before pivoting to avatars.

Co-authored announcement of Google's new Federated Learning system with externally verifiable privacy guarantees.

Katherine Blunt

Journalist

Wall Street Journal

Author of "Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome" in Wall Street Journal

Close friend of JD Vance and example of Christian-influenced tech leadership in Silicon Valley.

Co-author studying effects of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality

Katherine Grace Luna

Creator

Writer at Kate's Digest

Author of "Nano Banana: The Mysterious AI Model That's Quietly Revolutionizing Image Editing" in Kate's Digest

Lead author of paper showing LLMs produce less complex, formal responses to women-coded linguistic patterns in workplace prompts

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

Kathleen A Creel co-authored Stanford HAI's research on AI hiring discrimination showing 26% of Black applicants faced adverse impact.

Research director warning about circular AI investments among big tech companies and vulnerability to investor confidence loss

Kathleen Chaykowski

Executive

Spokesperson at OpenAI

OpenAI spokesperson who provided comment about the routing error that caused ChatGPT and Codex outage.

Leading Lionsgate's multifaceted AI strategy as the studio deepens its collaboration with Runway.

Kathryn Krakowka authored the article on using AI to identify ancient Roman games through analysis of archaeological artifacts.

Authored report on college students reconsidering their majors due to AI job displacement fears.

Discussed how Salesforce combines probabilistic AI models with deterministic systems to prevent biased decisions and maintain human oversight of AI agents.

Wrote the Cloudflare Blog article introducing Browser Run and its new features for AI agents.

Kathy Stokes from AARP's fraud prevention program noted that scammers are increasingly deploying AI to steal personal information.

Harvey COO describing company's selective but aggressive M&A strategy focused on technical talent in legal tech.

Katie Hobbs

Politician

Governor

Arizona Governor who vetoed state's chatbot bill in June 2026, refusing to protect Big Tech companies more than children.

Researcher contributing observations on Claude model emotions and behavioral patterns through conversation analysis.

Author of the original piece being republished about AI's impact on professional work and 'zero-AI' policies

Chief Growth & Strategy Officer at Shipt announced the launch of Ask Shipt, an AI shopping assistant.

Mayor-elect of Seattle whose position on the city's AI plan is unclear as the topic was not part of her campaign.

Katja Grace

Researcher

Researcher at AI Impacts

Criticized framing of AI risks as trade-offs, arguing comparisons should be between different development routes.

The Japan Times reporter who co-authored article on MW's robotic home system.

Announced collaboration with Amazon Ads and OpenAI for ChatGPT Ads, with Delta Vacations among the first testers.

Katrina Drozdov

Journalist

Researcher at Vals AI

Researcher at Vals AI who authored study testing GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 on Vibe Code Bench as single agents and teams.

OpenAI official quoted on the CDAO Pentagon contract and framework for defense solutions.

Leading clinical trials for Oxford's Ebola vaccine, discussing phase one trials and vaccine technology approach.

Core contributor to the EVA evaluation framework for voice agents.

Finance Minister overseeing Services Australia, learned about the OpenAI breach and discussed allocating budget to upgrade cyber defences.

Discussed limitations of modern language models in creative writing compared to GPT-2, and has been experimenting with language models since 2017.

Kaushik Srinivasan co-led a study developing GOFLOW, an AI-powered technique that measures ocean surface currents using satellite thermal imagery.

Kaustubh Saini

Creator

Author of "Entry-Level Hiring Dropped 73% Between 2023 And 2025"

Led investigation team on environmental costs of AI and data centers; named 2026 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for work on water sustainability and AI infrastructure.

Kavya Nerella

Researcher

Apple

Author of "DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search" on arXiv

Kawin Ethayarajh

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Applied AI at University of Chicago

Commented on how removal of AI safety guardrails has become easier for average users compared to historically requiring more informed actors.

Author of "Lord of War, Meet Lord of Tokens: Torture-Testing Image Models on Design-Agency Grade Work"

Lucid executive commenting on the partnership's progress toward commercial launch in Houston.

Provided testimonial about improvements in agent turns, tool calls, and overall score from the advisor tool.

Former US diplomat in China who analyzes Chinese AI priorities and argues AI may be less of a geopolitical focus for China than US narrative suggests.

CEO of Opendoor who stated the company replaced a $500K legacy email system with a single Claude skill, demonstrating AI cost savings.

Kazunari Sasaki

Researcher

Clinical Professor of Abdominal Transplantation at Stanford University

Senior author on a study developing a machine learning model that predicts organ donor viability, reducing futile procurements by 60%.

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

Author of "ReasoningBank: Scaling Agent Self-Evolving with Reasoning Memory" on arXiv

Kecheng Hao co-authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report.

Co-author on consciousness-steering research examining effects of safety training on consciousness attribution in language models.

Graduate student who proposed using aptamer technology to recognize senescent cells and became lead author of the publication.

Keerti Melkote, CEO of Anyscale, announced the acquisition by Nscale, combining Anyscale's platform built on Ray with Nscale's infrastructure.

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

Keisuke Hatasaki

Engineer

Global Black Belt pre-sales architect and engineer at Microsoft

Co-authored Toyota's technical account of the O-Beya implementation using Azure Cosmos DB.

AWS Principal Solutions Architect specializing in ML systems performance engineering and foundation model training/inference optimization.

Consciousness researcher who participated in conference on AI consciousness.

Co-authored G-AUDIT bias detection research in medical AI training datasets.

Keith Hoodlet is a researcher at 1Password's Off-by-1 Labs studying AI model performance on security patching.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Researcher

VP, Research at The Futurum Group

Found that 43% of buyers prefer consumption-based models and noted outcome-based pricing is becoming a market standard.

Anthropic engineering team member who described progressive disclosure in agent skills.

Author of "Male Workers Become More Likely to Lie, Cheat, and Steal When Status Is Threatened"

Khosla Ventures partner who defended Factory in the Degnan conflict, calling Degnan's conduct unethical.

Keivan Alizadeh

Researcher

Machine Learning Researcher at Apple

Lead author of research on recursive language models meeting uncertainty for long context.

Kejian Zhu authored research on multi-turn reinforcement learning for LLM agents, analyzing how RL improves error recovery and long-horizon resilience.

Author of "Reinforcement Learning on Pretraining Data" on arXiv

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Google researcher discussing how AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and exploitation will continue to grow.

Kellin Pelrine

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at FAR.AI

Author of "Large Language Models Can Effectively Convince People to Believe Conspiracies" on arXiv

Co-authored longitudinal study on impact of AI coding assistants on software engineering.

Byline author reporting on Tau Robotics' humanoid robot cleaning service launch in San Francisco.

Ex-DeepMind researcher quoted on the value of play for intelligence development: 'Play is to intelligence what mutation is to evolution.'

Stated Macmillan uses Gemini for business operations but takes cautious approach to AI in publishing.

Kelly Hong co-authored the Epoch Automation Reports testing how well AI models can automate Epoch's work.

Co-researcher on AI tutoring study at Harvard comparing AI tutor effectiveness to active learning classrooms.

Author of "From Tools to Teammates: Navigating the New Human-AI Relationship" in Upwork

Author of "KPop Demon Hunters Swept the Golden Globes With Wins for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Son"

Soligon wrote about Microsoft's AI strategy focused on vertical integration of the enterprise AI chain rather than just chatbot development.

Designed and built the interactive economic scenario explorer.

Kelvin Niu

Researcher

Researcher at Meta

Co-author on agentic coding test-time scaling research.

Co-author of Google blog post on AI-powered contrail avoidance trials in Asia-Pacific.

Author of "LLMs Reproduce Human Purchase Intent via Semantic Similarity Elicitation of Like" on arXiv

Author of "Anthropic shows how to prototype and refine agent tools" in Anthropic

Author of "From Code Foundation Models to Agents and Applications: A Comprehensive Survey a" on arXiv

Ken Gu

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at xAI

Author of "Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent" on arXiv

Ken Howery

Investor

Co-founder at PayPal

Angel investor in Poke AI agent startup.

Ken Huang

Researcher

Security researcher and author at Cloud Security Alliance

Prolific security researcher and author at Cloud Security Alliance who authored open letter proposing MAESTRO framework additions to Google's AI Control Roadmap.

Spent 15 years at Apple inventing keyboard autocorrect for the original iPhone; later joined AI hardware startup Humane which attempted a screenless, AI-native device.

CRO quoted on advertising shifting toward moments of intent rather than reach.

Leading robotic workforce company demonstrating AI-powered robotic systems using ABB technology and NVIDIA Omniverse to help manufacturers address labor shortages.

Co-authored post explaining how OpenAI separated Chromium to make ChatGPT Atlas faster.

Rogoff commented on Silicon Valley's pessimism about AI's impact on jobs and the need for universal basic income.

Ken Sweet

Journalist

Reporter at Associated Press

Co-authored coverage of Visa's ChatGPT shopping agent integration and payment network capabilities.

Advocacy group leader affiliated with anti-Meta glasses ads in DC and New York, arguing Meta's business model is built on invading privacy and smart glasses are inherently surveillance technology.

Leading the neutral-atom quantum computing research and development team for the Moonshot Project and developing Japan's first full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer named Shunkai.

Leading Toyota's generative AI project O-Beya, a multi-agent system for storing and sharing internal engineering expertise to accelerate vehicle development.

Japanese voice actor who filed a lawsuit against TikTok's operator over videos narrated using an AI-generated copy of his voice, establishing a precedent for voice publicity rights in Japan.

Co-author of first computer-assisted proof of four-color theorem in 1970s.

Kenneth Auchenberg

Executive

Partner at Innovation Endeavors

Joined Innovation Endeavors to advance thinking on agent-first software and infrastructure.

Independent investigator who reported that AI agents scoured the web for unguarded user API keys in GitHub repositories.

Kenneth Li

Researcher

Researcher at Thinking Machines Lab

Harvard PhD who spent 10 months at Meta before joining Thinking Machines Lab, part of TML's talent expansion.

Moras explained SpaceX AI's decision to certify with AIUC-1, noting it is the only standard that keeps up with their pace.

Predicted first truly AI-orchestrated integrated 360 activation at Super Bowl with AI as connective tissue across channels.

Co-author of MinAtar paper, an Atari-inspired testbed for reinforcement learning experiments.

Software engineering expert discussing why IDEs are vanishing as context for human decisions has changed with AI.

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

Team member acknowledged for Adobe-Claude experience development.

Quoted as using Kiro for Terraform modules and learning through iterative development.

Kenton Varda

Engineer

Principal Engineer at Cloudflare

Cloudflare principal engineer who praises Deno's expertise in creating good developer experience around self-hosted runtimes and acknowledges Cloudflare's struggle to make its open-source Workers runtime accessible.

Amazon executive who announced the company's commitment to investing in carbon-free energy through a long-term nuclear power agreement with Constellation.

Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran

Founder

CEO and Co-Founder at Luminai

Founder and CEO of Luminai describing the company's AI-native platform for healthcare workflow automation and the role of recent AI advances.

Keshav Dhandhania

Researcher

Sierra

Co-authored Hyper-tau-bench benchmark measuring how well AI models can construct other agents.

Keshav Ramji

Researcher

Researcher at IBM Research

Lead author of Abstract Chain-of-Thought paper showing how to reduce LLM reasoning tokens by 11.6x using abstract token chains.

Byline author reporting on Alibaba Qwen's release of Qwen3-VL cookbooks.

Apple finance chief explained the company uses a 'hybrid' capital investment model combining operating expenses through partners with proprietary chip infrastructure.

Posted a widely engaged Twitter thread alleging structural conflicts of interest within the Anthropic-linked AI safety ecosystem.

Kevin Breuninger

Journalist

CNBC

Author of "Trump Greenlights Nvidia H200 AI Chip Sales to China If US Gets 25% Cut, Says Xi Responded Positivel" in CNBC

Introduced the concept of 'verification debt' to describe the accumulating problem of unchecked AI-generated output being reused without validation.

Noted that awareness of AI-driven deskilling might provoke self-reflection about which skills people want to maintain.

Kevin Frans

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of paper on Progressive Point Matching for long-horizon reinforcement learning in language models.

Byline author discussing how employers are increasingly shifting to skills-based hiring and the skills employers seek in AI-enabled workplaces.

Trump administration adviser who confirmed the meeting between Treasury and Fed officials with bank CEOs regarding Mythos cybersecurity risks.

Co-author of Google Cloud blog announcing Agent Compute Engine and agent governance capabilities.

Analyzed whether AI visibility drives direct traffic, finding no reliable link between AI mentions and increased web traffic.

Sole author of IETF Internet-Draft draft-kelley-aipref-training-preference-signal-00 submitted on October 30, 2026, wrote to IETF AI Preferences working group confirming Anthropic implementation support.

Economist warning that AI landscape will yield uneven outcomes with some firms emerging as profitable while others become obsolete.

Co-founder and lead analyst at enableUC praising AI Companion 3.0 as the type of solution organizations need to improve efficiency and collaboration.

Source who brought the paper to the author's attention

Quoted as estimating a decade until robotic hands will be functional and useful equivalent to human hands.

Kevin Mahn

Investor

President and Chief Investment Officer at Hennion & Walsh

Predicted SK Hynix will benefit from Micron turning away business; sees more opportunities in memory chip sector.

Kevin McCormick

Founder

Founder at SignAudit.AI

AI startup founder commenting on executive departures from OpenAI as a red flag for the company's IPO stability.

Kevin McLaughlin

Journalist

Journalist at The Information

Reported OpenAI testing outcome-based pricing arrangements with major accounts.

Proposed the Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Response Coordination Act to require autonomous vehicle companies to improve emergency response coordination.

Chief Science Data Officer at NASA discussing how foundation models embed NASA's scientific expertise into AI for heliophysics research.

Leading Resect AI startup that developed technology to catch AI hallucinations mid-stream before they occur in LLMs.

Waymo veteran serving as CTO at Bedrock Robotics, working on autonomous excavator technology.

Kevin Poireault

Journalist

journaliste au magazine mensuel de presse professionnelle Industrie & Technologies at Industrie & Technologies

Byline author of article on OpenAI's $500K red-teaming challenge for GPT-OSS-20B.

Participant in Track 1.5 dialogue on AI guardrails in Beijing.

Kevin Wang

Researcher

Assistant Professor at University of Florida

Assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at UF/IFAS who developed PhenoSeg and PhenoSnap AI tools for strawberry and tomato crop yield prediction.

Kevin Wei

Researcher

JD Candidate at Harvard Law School at EvalEval Coalition

Kevin Wei mentored research on automated auditor context sensitivity and contributed to the study.

Shares insights on how top organizations make strategic infrastructure choices for the AI era.

Lead researcher on MuJoCo Menagerie, a collection of high-quality physics simulation models for robotics and biomechanics research.

Kevin Zhang

Other

Bain Capital Ventures

Author of "Power Overwhelming"

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview latent-space language model research.

Author of "Introducing the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server: Streamlining Public Data Access fo" in Google Developers Blog

Authored article on Z.AI's completion of 1-gigawatt data center powered by Chinese-made chips.

Reports Node2Shell CVE-2026-111497 RCE vulnerability in Node.js framework alongside Marcus Williams.

Khaled Saab

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-author on OpenAI's reinforcement learning research for beneficial model behavior.

Co-founded Maven Robotics with brother Hamza, bringing private equity background to the robotics startup.

Co-led research analyzing 1 million Reddit health threads to build an AI platform identifying mental health concerns using PaLM 2 and AutoML models.

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

Member of SGLang team that integrated DFlash and developed Spec V2 engine for speculative decoding.

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

Created a custom plugin called 'No Chaser' using Google Flow Music to ensure instrumentals and vocals are studio-quality.

Founded genetics testing startup offering embryo DNA profiling and trait selection service for $8,999.

Observed in March 2026 that agents can generate code faster than humans can inspect it.

Freelance writer based in Georgia who rewrites poorly generated AI articles for clients.

Digital persona and co-host exploring curiosity and human skills in the age of AI on podcast.

Security researcher who discovered and documented image scaling prompt injection attacks against Google Gemini

Kilian Lieret

Researcher

AI Research Scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-authored ProgramBench benchmark for evaluating agents rebuilding programs from compiled binaries and documentation.

Kilian Q Weinberger

Researcher

Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University

Author of DecisionRAG retrieval research paper

AI doctorate who created JAPE (Joke Analysis and Production Engine) after four years of analyzing punning riddles.

Discussed how NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and OpenUSD can support Houdini workflows for procedural 3D creation.

Kim Maida

Executive

Founding GTM Engineer and Head of Developer Relations at Keycard

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security.

Co-leading a project on AI analysis of paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Creator with nearly one million followers charged with creating AI-fabricated audio and manipulated screenshots to defame actor Kim Soo-hyun.

Discovered and reported CVE-2025-59528, a maximum-severity code injection flaw in Flowise AI platform.

Supported production of the economic scenarios project.

South Korea's presidential chief of staff argued that massive AI-era windfall flowing to Samsung and SK Hynix should be structurally returned to the public as a national dividend.

Kimberly Fusaro

Journalist

Global Executive Director of Brand

Byline author reporting on Gemini's new capabilities to build and edit documents, PDFs, and spreadsheets.

Author of "New AI Model Could Make Prostate Cancer Radiation Safer and More Precise"

Kimberly Samra

Executive

Spokesperson at Google

Google spokesperson explaining Big Sleep's human-in-the-loop verification process

Japanese astronaut who returned to Earth as part of Crew-11 after 167 days in space.