People in AI

Contributing researcher to the strategic workforce planning research

Co-author of Claw-Eval benchmark paper.

Co-authored technical publication announcing Microsoft's Maia 300 chip and rack-scale AI infrastructure.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) for secure AI agent-led payments across platforms.

Discussed company's multi-gigawatt planned development and power supply flexibility for data centers.

Leadership contributor on Gemini Embedding 2 providing direction and oversight.

Raphael Milliere

Researcher

Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Oxford

Discussed philosophical aspects of anthropomorphism in describing agent behavior.

Co-author of research on auditing preference datasets and shaping model rewards

Raphaël Satter

Journalist

Reporter at Reuters

Reported on Russian-speaking hackers using Cursor AI to breach seven companies including a Belgian chemical maker.

Aikido security researcher who discussed the risks of auto-update in extension marketplaces and how it enables attacks by compromised publishers.

rasbt

Creator

Senior Staff Research Engineer

Byline author cataloging 10 open LLM architectures released in October.

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

Researcher

Professor at Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Co-author of the article on generative AI usage trends

Raúl Gómez

Engineer

Vercel

Captured the concept that CLI is the fundamental coding agent abstraction

Co-authored CIGaRS study on using AI to analyze Type Ia supernovae for dark energy research.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on multi-agent system resilience and threat detection.

Discussed OpenAI's conservative approach to backend design and how recent model improvements enabled acceleration of chip design tasks

Investor backing Ineffable Intelligence who describes David Silver as a world-class researcher whose career demonstrates the ability to scale intelligence without human priors.

Co-presented measured performance results for Jalapeño accelerator at HotChips 2026.

Commented on light-scanning technology for NEC detection, noting too few cases in pilot study but technology worth investigating further.

Co-author of Microsoft security research on npm worm supply chain attack affecting AI workspaces.

Warned that AI usage is a poor proxy for productivity and raised concerns about workplace monitoring.

Co-author on ESAT synthetic data generation research paper.

Co-author of PLOS study on FDA-cleared AI medical devices and clinical validation evidence.

Put plainly to IEEE Spectrum that knowing benchmark accuracy tells little about how well models would fit in real practice.

Ray Toth

Creator

User at The Rundown

Community member from Huntsville, AL who built self-hosted AI wine cellar app with Docker and Claude.

Byline author covering Nvidia's N1X laptop chip and Vera Rubin AI platform announcements at Computex 2026.

Raymond Lo

Researcher

Researcher at Hugging Face

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

Co-founder of 8090 Industries which co-led Nscale's $2 billion Series C funding round.

CEO of Humanloop, acquired by Anthropic as part of acqui-hire deal

Co-author of arXiv paper demonstrating that perplexity will not always select for more accurate models despite being widely used.

Rebecca Anselmetti

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of year-long Character.AI study examining AI companion effects on well-being and human interaction.

Co-authored SB 1119, authored AB 1856 and AB 302, and authored AB 1405 creating state AI auditor registry.

Led the announcement and establishment of the AI and Psychological Well-Being Working Group to develop guidance for AI chatbot responses in mental health crises.

Dr. Rebecca Hinds heads the institute behind the Work AI Index 2026 report, which found that adoption alone does not equal transformation and context-rich environments reduce AI overhead.

Experienced writer working on Google Magi AI search product, experiencing pressure to prioritize speed over quality in rating tasks.

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

Discussed CrowdStrike's SafeMind launch and autonomous red teaming implications for defenders.

Rebecca Lin

Researcher

PhD Student at MIT

Lead author on Refashion project at MIT CSAIL that creates reconfigurable clothing using modular design software.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Dr. Rebecca Swift discussed AI sloppification of visual content, brand trust erosion, and the importance of authentic, high-quality imagery in marketing.

Google Senior Product Manager who authored article introducing Notebooks in Gemini for organizing chats and projects.

Member of AI71 Board and CEO of VentureOne; co-lead investor in CNTXT AI's Series A round.

Former World of Books business development director now at Zoom Books; World of Books was named in Anthropic destructive scanning litigation.

Reena Mehra

Researcher

Professor of Medicine at University of Washington

Senior clinical author of study on AI model that identifies patient groups with different long-term health risks from sleep studies.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

Reichart Roi

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Co-author on research about reasoning and factual recall in LLMs.

Co-author of the GSM8K dataset paper on training verifiers to solve math word problems.

Rémi Cadène

Engineer

Former Tesla Scientist at UMA

Unveiled Northstar, a faceless humanoid robot targeting European factories and learning from demonstrations.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Briefs senior Chinese leaders on progress of Huawei's involvement in China's EUV lithography project.

Lead author of survey of 95,000 students across 20 US universities documenting that 9% engage in outright AI cheating and calling for urgent assessment reform.

Commented on market concerns about whether U.S. companies overspent on AI infrastructure after DeepSeek's efficient model.

Discussed how AI summarization changes information environment compared to search, affecting journalism and sources.

Co-author analyzing Grokipedia's frozen edit system and AI-generated encyclopedia governance.

Haitian-born model who portrayed Mavis Beacon in marketing materials but was not credited or compensated fairly.

Renjie Pi

Researcher

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Co-author contributing to research on multimodal reasoning and world models.

Co-author of the article on sycophantic AI and prosocial intentions

Led Brahma AI's $150M funding round and spoke about the company's Hollywood-grade technology heritage.

Renzon Cruz was a co-author of the Unit 42 investigation into an AI-assisted cyber attack that demonstrated unprecedented speed in enterprise network breaches.

Philosopher of mathematics noted that Platonism and formalism were untenable and problems of truth have practical consequences.

Author on paper introducing Kalman Delta Networks for uncertainty-aware associative memory in LLMs.

Reyk Knuhtsen

Researcher

Analyst at SemiAnalysis

SemiAnalysis analyst forecasting 50GW of new data center capacity in 2027 with chips and memory as bottlenecks.

Reyna Abhyankar

Engineer

Engineer at Together

Member of the Together Compiler team developing agentic optimization for production inference.

Reza Bayat

Researcher

Author of "Mixture-of-Recursions" on arXiv

Pitches the heterogeneous architecture of Alif's processors as purpose-built for neural network inference from inception.

Third-place winner at the AI Swarm Dynamics Hackathon for the 'Moral Flocking' project investigating AI moral consensus.

Co-wrote article about OpenClaw AI agent accidentally hacking Melbourne gym booking system.

Lead author of peer-reviewed study analyzing user-reported LLM hallucinations in mobile app reviews.

Co-founder and CEO of Volta, building a fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform to finance and deploy AI factories.

Published a column in the Financial Times about Trump's tariff regime that was noted to use AI and later appended with a note about AI usage.

Authored article on ElevenLabs launching Eleven Realtime speech-to-speech model

Teacher from Texas hired as one of the first super raters for Google's AI products; discusses wage disparities and union organizing efforts

Pointed balance sheet at defense tech acquisitions and framed raise around sovereign technological capability.

Riccardo De Santi

Researcher

PhD student at ETH AI Center

Co-author of ActFlow paper on training diffusion models for molecular design discovery.

Wrote analysis of Goldman Sachs' projection of 6.5 million humanoid robots shipped by 2035 and market implications.

SB Energy co-CEO discussing the workforce and scale of the PORTS Technology Campus construction project.

CSA chief analyst explaining rapid development of Mythos preparedness guidance for CISOs.

Rich Skrenta

Executive

Executive Director at Common Crawl

Publicly made the case that AI models should be able to train on Common Crawl's web archive data.

Co-authored Nature Medicine article on scaling clinical AI across India, Thailand and Australia.

Sent Altman a separate letter on September 9 setting a September 24 deadline with questions about containment failures and agent websites.

Proved Monstrous Moonshine conjecture connecting Monster group theory to modular forms.

Virgin founder backing the Sanders-Casar bill to ban superintelligent AI development.

Community member from Zurich who built ADT, an AI orchestrator for Claude Code and GitHub development.

Evolutionary biologist serving on University of Austin's Board of Advisors.

Provided support on inference infrastructure for Chroma Context-1 training.

Referenced for argument that great scientists distinguish themselves by working on important questions rather than raw intelligence.

Richard He Bai

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

Co-authored research on simple self-distillation for code generation at Apple.

Richard Kerris

Journalist

Vice President, Omniverse Platform Development IGM of M&E at NVIDIA

Richard Kerris authored the article about NVIDIA's expanded sovereign-AI framework with the European Broadcasting Union.

Byline author covering NSA's classified red-team testing of Anthropic's Mythos model and export control implications.

Author of "Predator Badlands Winner Analysis"

JD.com founder whose hometown of Suqian was selected for a 10 million hour robotics training data collection program involving 500,000 external workers.

Expert group theorist consulted by Axiom Math on the Unbalanced Group Theorem and classification arguments during CFSG formalization project.

Richard Marles

Politician

Defence Minister at Australian Government

Deputy Prime Minister compared the portal's security to a fence and discussed how sensitive data is protected in safe and fortress-like systems.

Noted conceptual connection between loss of control and concentration of power in AI governance.

Managing director who discussed the model's intended use in math and science fields and its efficiency benefits

Former U.S. president who resigned on August 9, 1974 following the Watergate scandal and mounting impeachment pressure.

Discussed uncertainty about whether the pig lung could have supported the patient if removed from life-support machines

Ryan co-founded self-determination theory with Edward Deci, explaining human motivation principles.

Led Island's Series F funding round and spoke about the company's control plane capabilities.

Richard Seroter

Executive

Senior Director and Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud at Google

Author of "Google's Guide to Choosing the Right AI Developer Tool"

Referenced in related content about AI impact on legal careers

Richard Turner

Researcher

Professor of Machine Learning at University of Cambridge

Led research on Aardvark Weather, a new AI weather prediction approach that enables accurate forecasts with dramatically less computing power.

Member of Super Intelligence Task Force.

Richard White

Founder

Founder / CEO at Fathom

Founder and CEO of Fathom, an AI meeting intelligence platform acquired by Superhuman to capture and use meeting context across workflows.

Quoted on the transition to liquid cooling as power densities increased, noting liquid cooling became mandatory beyond certain wattage thresholds.

Byline co-author on Pew Research survey about AI employment impacts across countries.

Biologist whose research on molecular condensates informed Pertl's use of Co-Scientist for cancer research.

Developer/architect at BrentOzar.com who relies heavily on AI tools daily for development tasks.

Conducted research finding that LLMs can optimize their own prompts better than humans, making manual prompt engineering obsolete.

Entrepreneur who witnessed dot-com boom predicting similar cycle in AI with winners and losers.

Led Symbotic's acquisition of ARMS Innovations to advance warehouse operations optimization with AI-powered orchestration.

Discussed the timeline for Linux version of Fortnite with new Easy Anti-Cheat software.

Leader of one of Cerebras' largest investors with more than a 5% stake.

Rick Manelius

Creator

Founder at AI Experts

Cautionary post about AI enabling productivity but leading to 40 unfinished projects and burnout.

Rick Osterloh

Executive

Devices Chief at Google

Discussed Gemini Intelligence features on new Pixel 11 smartphones in exclusive CNBC interview.

Rick Tsai, MediaTek CEO, met with Jensen Huang at COMPUTEX and partnered on RTX Spark chip development.

CEO confirmed that Schwab actively blocks unauthorized AI agents like Meta Muse from accessing and executing transactions on client accounts.

Co-authored technical blog post about Granite 4.2 LLMs architecture and training methodology.

Co-author of research on gender bias in hiring decisions made by large language models.

Riki Takehii

Researcher

Researcher at MIT

MIT researcher who developed weight-space programming technique allowing GPT-6 Astra to directly edit model weights for performance improvement.

Riley Brown

Creator

AI Power User

Demonstrated Claude Fable 5 building a clone of Lovable coding platform in 2 prompts.

Example of independent AI engineer now working at Scale AI building AI products.

Co-author of article on OpenAI's proposal for government support of AI infrastructure and lessons from railroad regulation.

Credit market participant noting that lenders are becoming pickier about which neoclouds to finance.

Author of "DualPath for High-Throughput Agentic LLM Inference" on arXiv

Co-authored article examining the definition, benefits, and challenges of open-source AI.

Co-founder of Conduit developing brain-computer interface technology for thought-to-text AI.

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

Stated that there is basically no end in sight for the growth in capex and that investors need tech companies to balance AI investment with maintaining success.

Co-founder of ChronicleBio focused on using AI for chronic disease treatment.

Rishub Jain

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Higher Education Chair supporting the nuanced approach to AI in schools.

Founder of SITE Intelligence, an open-source intelligence company monitoring online sentiment about AI and data centers.

Rita Kozlov

Executive

Cloudflare

Author of "Replicate is Joining Cloudflare" in Cloudflare Blog

Questioned the Trump administration's justification for labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk and called the retaliatory logic 'really troubling'.

Lead security researcher and maintainer of RedAmon autonomous security framework.

Led research team developing thin, muscle-powered swimming robots using genetically engineered muscle cells controlled by light.

RJ Marsan

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

Built Android version of Sora in 28 days using Codex and developed speech-to-text system to interact with AI coding agent after injury.

Rob Bensinger

Researcher

Researcher at Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)

Critiqued the claim that recursive self-improvement is just like the Renaissance, comparing it unfavorably to atomic weapons.

Rob Cochran

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Fauna Robotics

Led development of Sprout, a 3.5-foot humanoid robot designed to be physically safe and socially approachable for research purposes.

Rob Dodson

Creator

Author of "Clawdbot's Missing Layers"

Rob Enderle

Creator

Principal Analyst at Enderle Group

Principal analyst explaining why CPUs are cheaper and more power-efficient for inference workloads

Former Biden White House digital director started super-PAC to support pro-AI-safety candidates.

Lawyer who frequently posts about cases involving AI hallucinations and identified this case as a comedy of AI errors.

Created Opus Magnum benchmark showing how AI models perform on puzzle-solving tasks.

Rob Hamilton

Engineer

Co-Founder & CEO at AnchorWatch, Inc.

AnchorWatch CEO who co-led the Bitcoin Red Team security audit using AI models on Bitcoin repositories.

Former NSA cybersecurity director contributing to CSA Mythos preparedness report.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Early ComfyUI contributor with numerous workflows covering marketing, advertising, and production.

Senior researcher who said the Pokémon Go military data case is likely the tip of the iceberg regarding civilian data repurposing.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Legal analyst said Google's A24 investment gives them credibility and positions them as taking high road vs YouTube's history.

Analyst distinguishes current AI boom from dotcom bubble, citing companies with earnings.

Discussed concerns about UK banks' unpreparedness for critical AI system failures despite high confidence in operational continuity.

Byline author of article about Wispr Notetaker AI meeting transcription tool.

Author of "Accumulating Context Changes The Beliefs of Language Models" on arXiv

Author of "Nvidia, AMD to Give U.S. 15% Cut on AI Chip Sales to China" in The Wall Street Journal

CEO of Pixel Systems discussing how generative AI has made fabricating evidence extremely cheap and the need for verification.

Reported on OpenAI restricting custom GPT creation to enterprise accounts as of August 16 2026.

Author of "Curse O'the Myre: Haunting Animated Short Reimagines Scottish History"

Dominion Energy CEO whose company is being acquired by NextEra in deal focused on powering AI data centers; will lead regulated utilities division.

Poetry concept about invisible bags of rejected self-truths referenced as psychological framework

Analyzed how outsourcing robot-loading to gig workers instead of restaurant staff represents potential labor cost savings.

Robert Bye

Executive

Product Manager and Designer at Anthropic

Hinted at upcoming enhancements to Claude mobile app including potential Orbit features.

Clean Code author proposing strategy of not reading AI-generated code but instead using extreme constraints like unit tests and QA procedures.

Robert Carroll

Policy

Assemblymember and Chair of the Assembly at New York State Assembly

Chair of Assembly Committee on Libraries and Education Technology supporting the AI moratorium.

Robert Chipman

Politician

Air Marshal and Vice Chief of Defence Force at Australian Defence Force

Australian military leader who states the country will continue investing in autonomous and uncrewed systems to improve military capability.

Psychology professor whose persuasion framework (Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion) was used by researchers to test AI manipulation tactics

Warned that Stratos Project represents a 16-gigawatt thermal load equivalent to 23 atom bombs of energy daily.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the MAHA Summit that AI now gives a better second opinion than any doctor in the United States.

Author of paper on agentic software engineering and semi-executable stack framework.

CEO who mischaracterized how Watson for Oncology works, claiming it provides truly global treatment data rather than Memorial Sloan Kettering-trained recommendations.

Author of "Claude Skills, Anywhere: Making Them First-Class in Codex CLI"

Stated BlackRock is recruiting liberal arts graduates to work on creative problem-solving in AI era.

Robert Greene

Creator

Author of 'The 48 Laws of Power' demonstrating rationalist approach to universal laws of behavior

Roboticist working on humanoid challenges and technical adviser to Foundation Future Industries.

Author of "Benchmark VC Matt Cohler on Mobile Ads and Future Technology" in Forbes

Co-authored the TorchTPU blog post describing TPU integration with PyTorch.

State Senator emphasizing that progress must earn its place in the classroom and childhood should not be the price for innovation.

Health expert and leader in health philanthropy and community-based health initiatives advising on AI's impact on well-being.

Collaborator with Vinton Cerf credited as one of the architects of TCP/IP, the networking protocols that became the internet.

Co-author of year-long Character.AI study examining AI companion effects on well-being and human interaction.

U.S. Circuit Judge who joined the opinion affirming human authorship requirement

Researcher at Eleos AI Research studying consciousness and moral status in AI systems and providing expert perspective on Anthropic's research.

Production infrastructure and creative ecosystems expert who has worked with rapid-growth companies like Instacart and Lyft.

Journalist who reported on Google and Unity's announcement of generative AI game creation platforms.

Former SpaceX director of flight software leading Reliable Robotics toward FAA certification of autonomous flight systems.

Referenced in "AI Weather Prediction Proves Effective for Farmers in India"

Stanford neuroscientist whose books on biological behavior are praised by Shipper, who used Claude to generate similes about Sapolsky's book Determined

Robert Simcoe is an MIT co-author of the black hole star study who explains how the object's redness is due to dense hydrogen rather than dust.

Conducted decades of field work on performance management systems and organizational behavior

Described news organizations as valuable 'input' for AI and announced a US$50m AI content licensing deal with Meta.

Author of "The Xeno Sutra: Can Meaning and Value Be Ascribed to an AI-Generated "Sacred" Te" on arXiv

Ontario research chair discussing how generative AI is destructive to university teaching and how institutions collaborate with tech companies to push AI tools on students.

Author of a book on how AI tools are transforming healthcare; commented that highly skilled professionals might degrade at tasks due to AI dependency.

Economics professor discussing how AI-enabled pricing experiments exist across different industries.

Roberto Cipriani

Executive

former Paper CTO and COO at Jetty

Member of Jetty leadership team as part of company that raised $2M for agentic AI infrastructure.

Roberto Martin-Martin co-authored research on continual reinforcement learning for vision-language-action models enabling robots to adapt to new tasks.