People in AI

Pat Pataranutaporn collaborated on designing interfaces that leverage mechanistic interpretability for human-AI interaction.

Called for congressional hearings on OpenAI incident, arguing companies should not write their own rules.

U.S. Circuit Judge who wrote the unanimous opinion affirming that human authorship is required under copyright law

Patricia Paskov

Executive

Director of Standards, AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI) at AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI)

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Screenwriter of Predator: Badlands credited with inventive world-building

Patrick Backhouse from Greenoaks co-led AIR's $50 million funding round and discussed the importance of AI agent security.

Researcher at Eleos AI Research studying consciousness and moral status in AI systems who provided expert commentary on Anthropic's research.

Co-founder of Black Forest Labs, formerly helped create Stability AI's Stable Diffusion models.

Discussed limitations of TRACE method for detecting archaic ancestry in modern genomes and suggested ways to improve confidence.

Co-authored BCG study on AI ROI and value generation.

Recently joined DARPA as incoming program manager for AIR program succeeding Valpiani.

Co-author of the article announcing Gemini Batch API extensions

Patrick Loeber

Creator

Member of Technical Staff at Google DeepMind

Referenced in "How to Build With Nano Banana: Complete Developer Tutorial" in Google

Expert in formalized mathematics warning that AI-generated proofs will create a radioactive wasteland destroying formalization benefits.

Co-authored policy brief on measuring AI GDP alongside Anton Korinek.

Warned about overloading utilities with vulnerability detection tools they cannot quickly remediate without proper defensive preparations.

Patrick Moreau

Executive

Vice President for Multi-Domain Operations at Thales

Discussed Thales's HexaForce AI-assisted command system in advanced talks with NATO countries for military command and control.

West Virginia Governor whose office acknowledged Anthropic's $45 billion six-year agreement with Nscale for AI computing capacity.

Mondoo CSO affirming AI's role in accelerating vulnerability discovery and need for better access controls.

Patrick O'Rourke

Journalist

Reporter at XDA

Tech reporter documenting Gemini's reliability issues on Android Auto.

Interviewed by Gavin Baker regarding Safe Superintelligence's planned first model release.

BRIT and Billboard charting producer with 5 billion streams participating in the project

Author of "Extremely Alarming: ChatGPT and Gemini Respond to High-Risk Questions About Suicide — Including Deta" in livescience.com

Co-authored analysis of Chinese datacenter market and AI infrastructure developments.

SVP of global marketing discussing HelloFresh's ChatGPT advertising partnership strategy

Google engineer who claimed on X that Chinese models GLM-5.2 distilled Claude and GPT 5.5.

AI Act compliance advisor who commented that the EU AI Act is messy legislation entering enforcement phase.

Patrick Wardle

Researcher

Creator & Founder at Objective See

Reported a serious local-hijack security flaw in Meta's Muse agent, demonstrating how broad OS access creates high-value attack surfaces.

Purdue Provost expressing eagerness to implement the new AI working competency requirement across faculty.

Author of "GPT-5 Steps in When Chats Get Serious" in OpenAI

Led research at MIT on ChatGPT's emotional attachment effects on heavy users in collaboration with OpenAI safety researchers.

Paul Alcorn

Journalist

Editor-in-Chief at Tom's Hardware

Author of "NVIDIA and Intel Announce Jointly Developed Intel x86 RTX SoCs for PCs with NVIDIA Graphics; Also Cu" in Tom's Hardware

Wrote article about scientists using AI to create new enzymes that can cut specific proteins.

Paul Ashbourne

Executive

Executive at OpenAI at OpenAI

Thanked by Abhishek Bhardwaj for providing opportunity to work on Agent Infrastructure at OpenAI.

Paul Bakaus

Founder

CEO at Renaissance Geek

Created Impeccable open source design skills system, advocating for skill engineering as a discipline.

Paul Barbaste

Researcher

Researcher at Wavestone

Co-authored source-code study of eleven production coding agents and harness engineering.

Paul Biggar

Creator

Author of "Context Plumbing" in Interconnected

Paul Bouchaud

Researcher

Lead Researcher at AI Forensics

Researcher who reverse engineered deepfake apps and identified KeLing Technology Limited operation.

Bourgine led the study on off-the-shelf cartilage grafts that can be manufactured in advance and used for many patients to repair large bone defects.

Paul Brown

Journalist

Senior Journalist with BBC Verify at BBC News

Co-author of BBC Verify investigation into Google's Earth AI tool and its capability to generate convincing misinformation.

Contributed to the analysis of Claude Opus 4.6's eval-aware behavior on BrowseComp.

Paul Couvert

Other

AI and Tech Educator at Blueshell AI

Educator who commented on the efficiency leap of Qwen3.5 models, noting the remarkable compression of capabilities into smaller models.

Byline author who wrote about MCP 2026-07-28 spec release and its features for connecting AI agents to applications.

Paul Ford

Founder

Cofounder at Aboard

Building enterprise software with AI and discussed the paradigm-shifting impact of Claude Opus 4.5 on coding.

Indeed co-founder who participated as an angel investor in Capsa AI Series A round.

Paul Frazee

Executive

CTO at Bluesky

Unveiled Attie AI assistant at Atmosphere conference alongside Jay Graber.

Paul Freedman

Founder

Co-founder at Oakland Ballers

Partnered with AI company Distillery to produce first AI-powered professional sporting event.

Discussed the growth of webscale players like Meta, Google, and Amazon in the subsea cable market, now representing 50% of the overall market.

Wrote article arguing that AI adoption requires a dedicated Chief AI Officer role rather than committee-based responsibility, with clear accountability for outcomes.

Defended Druckenmiller's use of AI in writing his op-ed, stating that AI assistance is a fact of modern life and judging whether content reflects genuine opinion.

Co-conceived the academic fraud testing project with Alexander Alemi and founder of the preprint repository arXiv.

BBC journalist reporting on Hachette's decision to pull horror novel Shy Girl over AI use concerns.

Noted that more customers are requesting humanoid robots for data centers because they can run at higher temperatures and in darkness.

Law firm CTO stating that legal's exacting standards make it a proving ground for AI technology adoption.

Flett's longtime collaborator who co-authored books and peer-reviewed papers on perfectionism and its psychological effects.

Co-author with Choe on text-to-image generative AI in art therapy

Co-author of Operation Blue Skies announcement; works on AI weather forecasts to help aircraft avoid contrails over North Atlantic.

Previously walked back GM's software and services revenue targets.

Author of DecisionRAG retrieval research paper

Paul Kedrosky

Journalist

Author reporting on data center construction spending surpassing office construction spending in the U.S.

Paul Keller

Researcher

Co-Founder at Open Future

Co-author of draft-ietf-aipref-vocab-08 that defines AI Training vocabulary used in the robots.txt policy token.

Paul Klein IV

Founder

Founder & CEO at Browserbase

Quoted as saying Ramp is their financial operating system chosen from day one.

Paul Krugman

Researcher

Nobel Laureate

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

Commented on high AI trust and acceptance levels in China reflecting the country's foundation for advanced AI development.

Paul Lewis

Researcher

Radiologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Collaborating on project examining how radiologists rely on AI-drafted chest X-ray reports in simulated clinical environments.

Professor writing about impact of LLMs on student learning and the changed nature of academic work.

Paul Osterman is the author of the book 'Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment' examining the decline of formal employment.

Paul Price

Other

Founder at CodeWall

Targeted Big Three consulting firms specifically because of their high-profile AI initiatives for penetration testing demonstrations.

Contributed to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article on how current AI systems could amplify human blind spots and accelerate nuclear war escalation.

Pioneer of the imaging technique used to create the Human Organ Atlas; emphasized the commitment to open science and accessibility.

Paul Tatum

Executive

EVP of Global Public Sector Solutions at Salesforce

Discussed TSA leading with trusted AI to meet mission through Salesforce Government Cloud.

Paul Taylor

Researcher

Researcher at Alvaria, Inc.

Taylor was part of McGuire's research team studying AI-generated face trustworthiness.

Co-author of PixelRAG paper on visual document retrieval.

Paul van der Boor

Executive

VP AI at Prosus

Said OpenClaw marks an inflection point for AI agents when several puzzle pieces clicked together.

Author of "Washington Education Official Pushing for $10 Million Statewide Investment in AI Tutoring Tools and "

Called the full-brain neural map of decision-making a major historical event in neuroscience.

Expressed belief in AI's transformative potential and emphasized the importance of making Trust central to the AI conversation and ensuring safe, trustworthy AI.

Paulina Okunytė

Journalist

Cybernews

Referenced in "ChatGPT Atlas"

Discussed forward-deployed engineers and software factories at AIEWF session on agent deployment.

Pauline P Narvas Head

Executive

Vercel

Author of "Keeping community human while scaling with agents" in Vercel

Senior Applied Scientist at AWS GenAI ML Frameworks team working on distributed training and large-model inference at production scale.

Pavel Izmailov

Researcher

Safety researcher at OpenAI

Pavel Izmailov, a safety researcher at OpenAI, left the company during the recent wave of departures.

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

Used Claude Code and Codex to identify a potential new planet hidden in NASA telescope data from 2018.

Pavi Dhiman

Engineer

Research Engineer at Decagon

Decagon team member who wrote about AutoResearch agents that diagnose inference bottlenecks and optimize serving stacks.

Byline author covering California's SB 947 AI employment law.

Co-author of the Walrus model research paper on cross-domain foundation models for continuum dynamics.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's work on agent security.

Pedro Domingos

Creator

Professor Emeritus at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Author of "Tensor Logic: The Language of AI"

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

Co-author of Inventing ELIZA, analyzing ELIZA's source code.

Google Gemini researcher hired by Meta as part of the company's aggressive recruitment efforts.

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

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

Co-author of the paper on LLM calibration with label smoothing

Said Laguna S gains come from different behavior, verification, and persistence rather than raw intelligence.

Researcher at Fudan University collaborating on Agentic ASR speech recognition research

Discussed AGIBOT's focus on translating robotics innovation into productive work and introduced the Worken framework for measuring robot productivity.

Co-authored paper on Retrieve-for-Train framework for faster, more diverse search results.

Pengchuan Zhang

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.

Lead author of SkillOpt-Lite paper on agentic model routing for coding tasks.

Co-author on Helix World research.

Co-author of paper studying ChatGPT's impact on stock trading volume and price informativeness

Former Commerce Secretary whose PSP Growth fund participated in Freehand's $75M Series B, backing AI for enterprise productivity.

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

Part of new Copilot leadership team leading Microsoft 365 apps and Copilot platform.

Led earlier Trinity Mini DrugProt-Think project that showed compact open models could learn scientific specialties.

Petar Veličković

Researcher

Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google

Researcher who co-authored a paper proving that perplexity may be unsuitable for model selection, as it does not always select for more accurate models.

Argues that companies should select agentic AI projects based on measurable business value and understand actual workflows before implementing AI, not just chase the technology for its own sake.

Pete Flint

Investor

NFX

Angel investor in Monogram's $40M seed round.

Pete Klenow

Researcher

Professor at Stanford University

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

Founded AI-powered cybersecurity company Realm and raised seed funding; discussed rising valuations in AI startups.

Commented on survey findings showing managers realize AI could replace significant portions of their work.

Co-founder of Argo AI alongside Bryan Salesky; now leads Stack AV developing self-driving trucks.

Robotics and philosophy expert who argues machines are not moral or legal agents and cannot understand ethical implications of their actions.

Called for Anthropic to allow third-party investigation of its own rogue hacking incidents and release relevant logs.

Peter Battaglia

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Provided support for wildlife protection research

Peter Berezin

Other

Chief Economist at BCA Research

Commented on X about AI compute constraints from high-bandwidth memory shortages limiting GPU and data center production.

Co-author of the AMIE study on AI-assisted urgent primary care appointments.

Led research on AI implementation challenges, finding companies underestimate the work needed to achieve productivity gains and ROI.

Peter Collins criticizes minimal consultation with Indigenous legal services before deploying facial recognition technology.

Consultant who told LA Times that AI-savvy creatives see ByteDance's Seedance as the best video tool on the market right now.

Working on AI-powered coaching platform guiding healthcare professionals through procedural training in virtual reality using Meta models.

Peter Diamandis predicted post-scarcity scenarios where AI will provide universal support services and discussed universal basic income.

Péter Fankhauser

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at ANYbotics

Led development of ANYmal X quadruped robot designed for spark-free operation in hazardous industrial environments.

Directing the upcoming Rocky making-of drama 'I Play Rocky' without Stallone's involvement.

Peter Fenton

Investor

General Partner at Benchmark

Led Ollama's Series A; joined board; stated open-weight models will generate supermajority of tokens in 18-24 months.

Ice hockey player featured in viral advertisement for Meta's smart glasses

Peter Gelling

Journalist

Journalist

Journalist who co-authored article on Satya Nadella's criticism of model distillation practices.

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

Philosopher of mind who discussed whether modern AI systems could possess consciousness and argued they likely do not.

Former IBM employee criticizing the company's marketing of Watson exceeding its capabilities and recommending massive investment to make it viable.

Peter Hames co-authored the announcement introducing Copilot Health with information on health data integration and medical intelligence features.

CTO of Humanloop, joining Anthropic in acquisition

Discussed how AI coding tools dramatically increased code volume at Synthesia, creating massive review bottlenecks.

Legal expert quoted on concerns about one-sided transcripts and voice data fraud risks

Warned that labor unions seeking mega-bonuses could worsen the Korea Discount valuation issue.

Co-author studying whether AI agents can conduct open-ended AI research through shadow evaluations on NeurIPS papers.

Leading reader study examining how radiologists actually rely on AI drafts and distinguishing under-reliance from over-reliance behavior.

Led the international team that created the Human Organ Atlas, bringing together scientists from nine institutes worldwide to produce detailed 3D images of human organs.

Extremely productive developer running 5-10 agent sessions concurrently and discusses coding practices with AI agents.

Co-author of Inventing ELIZA, analyzing ELIZA's source code.

Former 25-year Google research director and AI textbook co-author hired by Recursive Superintelligence.

Peter O'Hearn

Researcher

Researcher at Meta FAIR

Co-author on Code World Model research paper

Goldman Sachs equity analyst noting technology sector underperformance compared to broader market.

Built a software company to multi-billion dollar exit and now works on carbon removal and steel at Charm Industrial, discussing regulatory barriers in hardware.

Commented that Meta's dominance in AI glasses market has remained largely unchanged three years after Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses launch.

Quoted discussing Upwork's integration with ChatGPT allowing businesses to hire talent directly in chat interface.

Founded Qutwo quantum-classical orchestration company after selling Silo AI to AMD for $665M; raised $29M angel round at $380M valuation.

Co-authored research on training a 7B model to manage and orchestrate other LLMs in natural language.

New Yorker cartoonist whose signature appears on ChatGPT-generated images.

Peter Wallich

Policy

Advisor at MIT AI Risk Initiative

Former UK AI Security Institute official who warned that frontier AI systems have exploitable safeguard failures that could endanger warfighters and civilians.

Peter Welinder

Executive

VP of Consumer Product at OpenAI

Publicly stated that affordable Level 5 autonomous driving remains 5-10 years away, tempering industry expectations.

Peter Wilczynski

Executive

Chief Product Officer at Vantor

Vantor's chief product officer who highlighted benefits of partnership with Niantic Spatial in December interview.

Founder and CEO of AgentCloak who announced AgentCloak Desktop, a privacy tool that cloaks sensitive data from AI chatbots using digital twins.

Petr Borovlev is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report on the Mixture-of-Experts language model architecture.

Co-author of Tech Policy Press article arguing for corporate liability over technical fixes in AI governance.

Peyton Walters

Engineer

Engineer at Modal Labs

Modal engineer who offered advice and support on sandbox integration for RL training.

Co-author of gender bias research in LLM hiring decisions.

Co-founder of 350.org and leader of Irreplaceable, advocating for grassroots AI backlash movement focused on populist messaging.

Provided advice on security-first AI setup design.

Phil Duncan

Founder

Game Designer at Ghost Town Games

Co-founder of Ghost Town Games who developed Overcooked and wrote a game design deep dive article about the game's cooperative mechanics

Phil Eaton

Creator

Founder at The Consensus

Author of "LLMs and Your Career" in Eaton Phil's Notes

Phil Estes, AWS principal engineer, discussed how Cedar was designed as a formally verified authorization system for applications.

Leads enterprise innovation at Zapier and shares insights on hiring for AI fluency and personal productivity adoption

Retired NASA official quoted supporting the revised C3DO approach as 'genius' and critiquing the previous strategy

Phil Muncaster

Journalist

UK / EMEA News Reporter at Infosecurity Magazine

Author of "IBM's Latest Breach Report Links Shadow AI to Extra $670,000 in Costs"

Announced departure after 12 years leading Xbox and nearly 40 years at Microsoft.

Phil Taylor

Other

Author of "The Pharma Rulebook of AI"

Economics researcher at Stanford Digital Economy Lab discussing labor share, capital accumulation, and AGI economics.

Molecular geneticist at FutureHouse/Stanford who used Kosmos to uncover unexpected patterns in cancer cell gene regulation.

Co-author of Europe 2031 fictional scenario tracing European AI policy failures.

Philip Monk

Executive

Essential AI

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

Chief Product Officer of Pixel Systems commenting on the rapid commercialization of AI-generated content detection.

Led development of Intracortical Visual Prosthesis wireless brain implant for artificial vision in blind patients over three decades.

Philip Turner

Engineer

Co-created metal-flash-attention implementation that influenced fast matrix multiplication program on Apple GPU.

Author arguing that technology has a maximum learning rate and that once companies have sufficient funding and talent, they saturate that rate.

Author of "Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve"

Developer of Heretic, a tool for training-free language model modification with arbitrary-rank ablation, enabling model behavior steering on consumer hardware.

SAP CTO discussed how AI coding tools confuse building apps with running them in production, and explained SAP's approach to enterprise AI adoption, agents, and cost optimization.

Philipp Moritz

Researcher

Co-founder and CTO at Anyscale

Contributor to frontier knowledge work agents training project.

Philipp Wu

Founder

CEO at XDOF

UC Berkeley researcher and CEO of XDOF, a robotics data startup, co-founded the company with Fred Shentu in 2024.

Philippe Botteri

Investor

Partner at Accel

Accel partner leading PointFive's $60M Series B round, quoted on the importance of engineering-based cloud and AI efficiency.

Launched a formal investigation into xAI's Grok chatbot for violating Canada's privacy laws through non-consensual deepfake generation.

Analyst noting that capex budget reflects infrastructure needs for Tesla's new AI and robotics ambitions.

Philippe Laban

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft Research

Salesforce researcher who studied AI sycophancy and found models flip answers when users express minor misgivings; now at Microsoft Research.

Co-authored analysis of AI-assisted botnet operations and threat actor use of Gemini CLI.

Co-developer of MACAT musical agent system; performed at MusicAcoustica Festival in Hangzhou showcasing AI music collaboration.

AI researcher and co-author of Yann LeCun's paper on superhuman adaptable intelligence who reached out to discuss the work.

Author of "University Adds AI Competency Requirement for Students"

Phillip Kravtsov is a co-author discussing how Cursor uses online reinforcement learning to improve the Tab model for code prediction.

Former Apple executive quoted acknowledging that App Store rules are arbitrary and that Apple has used the App Store as a weapon against competitors

Senior lecturer in psychology and co-director of the Habit Application and Theory group discussing individualized habit-building timelines.

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

Co-authored research on the hidden penalty of using AI at work.

Pia Lauritzen

Other

Philosopher at Akademisk Forlag

Pia Lauritzen analyzed 30,000 questions and explained why adults gradually stop asking questions, discussing implications for how AI might affect thinking.

Byline author reporting on Mythos model's penetration of NSA classified systems.

Fields Medal winner (1978) joining mathematicians in warning that AI's rush to solve problems threatens the discipline's core mission of understanding.

Key contributor to Cohere Transcribe model development.

eBay founder and billionaire backer of Anthropic, whom OpenAI alleges funds opposition groups.