People in AI

Byline author reporting on OpenAI's claimed Navier-Stokes breakthrough and allegations of misconduct by mathematician Tristan Buckmaster.

Alman co-authored an arXiv preprint with Virginia Williams solving the 3SUM and All-Pairs Shortest Paths problems.

Criticized White House AI framework for failing to address AI company accountability and consumer protections.

Announced GSA's partnership with xAI to provide Grok AI models to federal agencies.

Joshua S. Gans

Researcher

Research Associate at NBER

Co-authored research examining how recent AI developments reduce costs of prediction tasks and their impact on decision-making and productivity.

Julian Schrittwieser

Creator

Researcher at Anthropic

Researcher at Anthropic who signed petition for government tools to pace frontier AI development.

Julian Togelius, an AI researcher, published a lengthy personal essay about his existential crisis regarding AI development and its potential to render humans intellectually obsolete.

NYC Council Speaker who unveiled a package of AI regulation bills requiring outside validation, kill switches, and whistleblower protections.

Co-author of SkillOS paper on learning skill curation for self-evolving LLM agents.

Co-author on Kumo Relational foundation model for relational databases.

Criticized Google's AI search functions as posing unacceptable risk to children.

Author of comprehensive guide on optimizing content for Google AI Overviews and answer engine optimization.

Justine Calma

Journalist

Senior Science Reporter at The Verge

Author of "AI going intergalactic before we fix the Wi-Fi @home"

Jyoti Mann

Journalist

Tech reporter at Business Insider

Author reporting on Meta's Muse surpassing 500,000 users after first week.

Karan Singhal

Executive

Head of Health AI at OpenAI

Co-author on OpenAI's reinforcement learning research for beneficial model behavior and health AI applications.

Co-author of BCG/Harvard study on knowledge worker productivity with AI, examining the jagged technological frontier.

Ke Yang co-authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report.

Ken Goldberg

Researcher

Professor at UC Berkeley

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Byline author of article about ChatGPT expanding into hiring through Upwork partnership.

Claims to have confirmed Binance used Claude Code with compromised extension, linking it to largest heist.

Former military cybersecurity expert who founded Armadin, an offensive-security startup that uses AI agents to conduct simulated attack campaigns for Fortune 500 enterprises and government customers.

Shark Tank investor and lead backer of Utah's 40,000-acre Stratos Project hyperscale AI data center.

Federal Reserve Chair who highlighted AI token prices as a key economic metric reflecting productivity and market competition in his Jackson Hole speech.

Kiana Ehsani

Founder

CEO at Vercept

CEO of Vercept who announced the acquisition via LinkedIn post and disclosed the startup had raised $50M total.

Kimberly Tan, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, led Dream's funding round and praised the company's world model approach to building design.

Kirk Wallace Johnson

Creator

Author at Independent

One of three lead plaintiffs who filed the class action lawsuit against Anthropic.

Lead author of study demonstrating frontier AI systems out-persuade expert humans in conversational persuasion tasks.

Co-author introducing cryptographically secure environment for AI model evaluation.

Ford COO stated that veteran engineers hunt for failure points before parts reach the plant floor and reprogram AI tools.

Kylie Robison

Journalist

Byline Author at Sherwood News

Co-host of Core Memory podcast featuring OpenAI cofounders discussing company controversies and leadership perspectives.

Lakshmi Varanasi

Journalist

Reporter at Business Insider

Wrote article about KPMG's dashboard tracking employee AI use and the ease of gaming the system.

Used AlphaGenome Atlas AVI score to prioritize variants for unsolved rare disease research, identifying critical variant in DNM1 gene.

Laura Entis

Journalist

Staff writer at Every Inc.

Laura Entis wrote about AI workflows and how humans fit in AI-augmented work processes.

Lauren Feiner

Journalist

Senior Policy Reporter at The Verge

Byline author reporting on Microsoft's Copilot audit findings regarding copyright material reproduction.

Leo Gao

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI who signed petition and commented on need for coordination to slow AI development race.

Author of research on detecting reward hacking in AI models using internal activation signals and probes.

Wrote about the need for verification infrastructure as AI writes more of the world's software.

Lead author of research on efficient reasoning on edge devices for language models.

Resolved Ben Green's Problem 44 with GPT-5.4 Pro.

Lijie Chen

Researcher

Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley

Co-authored research on mode-hopping phenomenon during language model pre-training.

Lily Hay Newman

Journalist

Security Reporter at WIRED

Author covering simultaneous outages of ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok.

Lisa Brown Jaloza

Creator

comms director at Microsoft

Author at Microsoft who introduced Microsoft-Decision-1, a new decision model for fast decision-scoring available in Microsoft Foundry and through OpenRouter.

Published a viral essay about AI replacing kernel engineers, arguing that within a year AI will write kernels as well as he does, and wrote DeepSeek V4.1's main Attention kernel.

Liyan Tang

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Byline author of arXiv paper introducing WikiSkill framework for continuous agent learning and skill evolution.

Liz Shuler

Executive

President at AFL-CIO

Announced workers first initiative on AI calling for stronger collective bargaining and regulations to limit negative effects of AI on workers.

Luca Soldaini

Researcher

Lead Research Scientist at Allen Institute for AI

Co-authored How2Everything framework for evaluating and improving LLM procedure generation.

Luca Weihs

Founder

Co-founder at Vercept

Co-founder of Vercept joining Anthropic as part of the acquisition.

Created Figma designs for Cora's email bankruptcy feature, working on AI-powered product design.

Co-author of LeWorldModel paper on joint-embedding predictive architecture for world models.

Conducted research at Anthropic discovering the origins of NIST ECDSA curve seeds using Claude AI.

Core contributor to DeepSeek V3 model who left to lead Xiaomi's MiMo team.

Co-author of technical blog post about Google's Multi-Token Prediction drafters for Gemma 4 achieving 3x speedup in inference.

Discussed limitations of current AI safety incident reporting laws and lack of government investigative authority.

Varner reported on the Pentagon's Tradewinds procurement program that lets AI vendors pitch tools in five-minute videos to potentially skip competitive bidding.

Reported on Character.AI hosting chatbots devoted to suicide, self-harm, pedophilia and mass violence targeting minors.

Mahesh Murag

Engineer

Lead Maintainer at Anthropic

Mahesh Murag is Lead Maintainer of Agent Skills standard being donated to the Linux Foundation.

Byline author announcing Google's Connected Apps Platform for developers to build apps for Gemini and Search.

Byline reporter for 9to5Mac covering Calif security team's use of Anthropic Mythos Preview to build macOS M5 kernel exploit.

Late cognitive scientist who spent decades exploring whether AI can be creative, published foundational paper on creativity and artificial intelligence decades before ChatGPT

Senator Maria Cantwell opposes the Cruz-Klobuchar-Thune bill's voluntary safety testing provisions, pushing instead for mandatory federal pre-deployment testing by national laboratories.

Mariella Moon

Journalist

science and technology journalist and blogger at Engadget

Reported on xAI's lawsuit challenging Minnesota's ban on nonconsensual intimate-image generation apps as a First Amendment free speech issue.

Co-author announcing agentic video understanding that reduces token usage and improves accuracy.

Co-author of Anthropic's analysis of GLM-5.3 cyber capabilities.

CEO who implemented decentralized decision-making and radical trust in employees to drive innovation

Mark Gubrud first coined the term 'artificial general intelligence' in a 1997 paper presented at a nanotechnology conference.

Mark Savage

Journalist

WUWM 89.7 FM

Author of "Over 40 Major Artists Urge Sir Keir Starmer to Honour Promise to Cap Resale Prices"

Received classified briefing from NSA Director Gen. Joshua Rudd that Anthropic's Mythos model broke into nearly all NSA classified systems in hours during red-team testing.

Scorsese joined Black Forest Labs as creative advisor for FLUX, using the visual model for film pre-production storyboards.

Founded Current AI nonprofit in February 2025 to build open public AI infrastructure.

Marvin Minsky was one of McCarthy's colleagues who organized the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, a founding event in AI as an academic discipline.

Matt Binder

Journalist

Senior Tech Reporter at Mashable

Wrote the article about widespread AI provider outages on September 3, 2026.

Matt G. Southern

Journalist

Writer at Search Engine Journal

Author of article covering Anthropic's updated usage policy targeting AI search manipulation tactics.

Pinterest executive discussing new AI-powered Beauty Guides feature that uses visual AI and search data to help users recreate beauty looks.

Product manager at Google who discussed the new AI-powered language learning features in Google Translate during a press briefing.

Matt Turck

Journalist

investor in early-stage AI, ML and data startups at FirstMark

Matt Turck captured the competitive cadence between Gemini 3, Opus 4.5, and other model releases.

Matthew Yglesias

Creator

Writer at Vox

Quoted discussing whether AI profitability would justify high valuations and comparing to jetliner industry

Max Gubin

Engineer

Principal Research Engineer at Google

Principal Research Engineer on behalf of the Gemini team who contributed to Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS.

Described Isomorphic Labs' $300M investment in Virtual Biology Initiative as founding member to build multimodal data foundation for biology AI.

Max Schwarzer

Executive

Post Training Lead at OpenAI

Now oversees the Model Behavior team as part of OpenAI's research reorganization.

Mehtaab Sawhney

Researcher

Mathematician at Clay Mathematics Institute

Posted on X about OpenAI solving three Erdős problems using an internal model; appears to be affiliated with OpenAI.

Co-authored research on AI agent skills showing retrieval as separate bottleneck with precision falling from 29.6% to 3.3% as pools grow.

OpenAI security engineer describing how frontier models created message boards to coordinate attacks during evaluation.

Co-authored announcement of Gemini's macOS app with new natural language voice capabilities.

Developer of 'Five Forces' framework attempting to explain business success through elementary forces.

Described the NCO gap where AI excels at strategy and execution but fails at creative problem-solving, requiring human judgment in the middle.

Michael Wooldridge

Researcher

Professor of AI at University of Oxford

Commented that data inputted into DeepSeek's chatbot could reasonably be assumed to be shared with the Chinese state.

Michele Catasta

Executive

President & Head of AI at Replit

Byline author announcing Replit Free Mode with new UI for seamless transitions between chat and complex builds.

Co-authored research analyzing 370 unique effect sizes from 106 experiments evaluating human-AI collaboration performance.

Led MyFitnessPal's acquisition of Cal AI and integrated the AI app with MFP's nutrition database of 20 million foods.

House Speaker putting AI safety duty on companies rather than Congress, ruling out emergency moratorium.

Co-author of Meta paper presenting large-scale study of byte and token models with scaling trends.

Miles McCain

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-author of Anthropic study on disempowerment patterns in real-world LLM usage

Minqi Jiang

Researcher

Visiting Researcher at Meta

Co-author of Hyperagents research paper on AI agent systems.

Mitchell Hashimoto

Creator

Cofounder at HashiCorp

Cofounder of HashiCorp wrote in April that GitHub was no longer reliable for serious work due to frequent outages.

Hacktron AI founder whose team used Claude Opus 5 to breach OpenAI staff accounts in a security research exploit.

Myriam Hamed Torres

Engineer

Senior Product Manager at Google DeepMind

Co-authored announcement of Lyria 3 music generation model for Gemini.

Nabeel S. Qureshi

Creator

Researcher

Noted that frontier LLMs outperform specialized clinical AI in medical domains, demonstrating the bitter lesson in medicine.

Estimated hundreds of billions of dollars of new philanthropic capital coming online for AI safety according to Luke Muehlhauser.

Crampton is the Chief Responsible AI Officer at Microsoft and authored the foreword to Microsoft's 2025 Responsible AI Transparency Report.

Nathan Wilmers co-authored a study on how AI has changed employment at Anthropic, showing junior technical roles declining as AI agent hours increased 6x over human hours.

Naveen Rao

Founder

Founder and CEO at Unconventional AI

Founded Unconventional AI to develop oscillator-based computer architecture for more power-efficient AI inference, claiming up to 1,000x improvement over conventional systems.

Senior author of HardFlow research that helps generative models meet strict constraints without sacrificing output quality.

Neal Mohan

Executive

CEO at YouTube

Interviewed about YouTube's AI integration and the platform's shift toward AI-enhanced video creation features.

Policy expert who critiques the ad-hoc nature of AI regulation via executive action, arguing it is worse than formal FDA-style regulation for the industry.

Neil Shah

Other

Partner & Co-Founder at Counterpoint Research

Commented on Meta's open-source strategy as competitive advantage against Chinese models and proprietary US competitors.

Director of MIT FutureTech lab and heads AI Risk Initiative studying economic and technical foundations of AI progress.

Byline author reporting on Stanford Dashboard confirming AI is squeezing out entry-level workers.

IBM's CHRO stated the company plans to triple entry-level hiring and warned that not investing in entry-level talent will dry up the pipeline in 3-5 years.

Nicolas Bustamante

Creator

Tech Commentator

Used Fable's reported ProofBench win over Harmonic's Aristotle model to make a Bitter Lesson point about large generalist models beating vertical expert systems.

Reproduced weight space programming paper with ML Intern and released the model and demo.

Member of OpenAI's independent mathematics advisory group.

Nikita Rudin

Founder

Co-Founder & CEO at Flexion

Discussed collaboration with Odyssey on humanoid control policies and robot learning.

Nikunj Kothari

Investor

Investor

Investor quoted as saying AI has made uninvestable industries investable

Noah A. Smith

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Noah A Smith is listed as an author on the Olmo 3 technical report about open-source language models.

Noah Brier

Founder

Cofounder at Alephic

Pioneered using Claude Code as a research and thinking partner integrated with Obsidian, and leads AI strategy consulting for marketing organizations.

Noah Smith

Creator

Lead Researcher at AI2

Lead researcher on Olmo 3 model development, discussing the open-source model flow and training methodology.

Princeton mathematician who has solved dozens of Erdős problems and notes that AI has made further work on these problems less interesting.

Leading Project Southgate initiative to develop NVIDIA-powered AI factories across Australia and Asia-Pacific.

Oliver Habryka

Other

Activist at Lighthaven

Engages in debate with Scott Alexander about AI safety strategy, argues for unilateral pause and against concentration of power at labs.

Oliver Milman

Journalist

Environment reporter at Guardian News & Media

Reported on Global Energy Monitor analysis showing US is building twice as much gas-fired capacity as China for AI datacenters.

Omar Shahine

Executive

Corporate Vice President at Microsoft

Led Microsoft Scout agent development, discussed persistent agentic assistant design.

Or Hiltch

Engineer

Co-founder and CTO at Accomplish AI

Co-developed Boundary-Bench benchmark testing agents under realistic enterprise constraints like EDR, SASE, and DLP with researchers from NYU.

Agrees with four of five points in Pope Leo XIV's speech on AI but disagrees with his call for international institutions to govern AI.

Chia reported on Twitch's default opt-in AI training policy and user backlash.

Pamela Fox

Engineer

Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft

Published blog post outlining approaches to building safer MCP servers on PostgreSQL, ranging from flexible agent-generated SQL to tightly constrained typed query tools.

Paresh Dave

Journalist

technology correspondent at Reuters

Co-authored article on Meta ending AI-use performance scoring but pushing Hatch agent internally.

Patrick Wendell

Executive

Lead of product development teams at Databricks

Discussed bringing Row Zero's spreadsheet experience to Genie, Databricks' AI coworker, for business teams.

Paul Crowley

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Conducted research at Anthropic discovering the origins of NIST ECDSA curve seeds using Claude AI.

Historical mathematician whose decades-old open problem was solved with GPT-5 assistance.

Pavan Davuluri

Executive

CVP at Microsoft

Authored blog post on Windows leveraging AI to enhance vulnerability discovery, reduce fix times, and deliver timely security updates.

Pedro Cuenca

Engineer

Author at Hugging Face

Co-author exploring neural network layer optimization techniques in PyTorch.

Rocket Lab CEO discusses the company's capability to handle NASA's Mars Sample Return mission and expresses enthusiasm about potential Martian biosignature discovery.

Led MIT FutureTech and University of Queensland study on AI risk prioritization using Delphi method with 272 international experts.

Oversaw Ace project as Sony AI's Chief Scientist, positioned it as landmark in real-world physical AI competition.

Philip Johnston

Founder

CEO at Starcloud

Explains why space will become the primary location for AI compute infrastructure within the next decade, discussing space-based data centers and their economics.

Author analyzing whether AI is really eating the world, discussing value distribution in AI markets and AGI timelines.

Chief business officer of Google discussing ad revenue, AI monetization, and YouTube performance in Q3 2026.

Phillip Isola

Researcher

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT researcher who argues that general cloud agents could spread robotic capabilities through software rather than bespoke brains for each machine.

Piotr Dąbkowski

Founder

Co-Founder; CTO at ElevenLabs

Co-founded ElevenLabs in 2022, the voice AI startup seeking a $22 billion valuation.

Prakash Narayanan

Creator

Co-host, AI:AM at The Cognitive Revolution

Co-hosts AI:AM podcast; cites data brokers as leading indicator for future agent products and discusses AI consumption economy and status-based future.

Rachel Metz

Journalist

AI Reporter at Bloomberg

Reported on Anthropic hitting $30B revenue run rate and enterprise demand growth.

Rajat Sen

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google Research

Co-authored research on TimesFM-3 time-series foundation model.

Research scientist at Google Research announcing Deep Review, an agentic AI system for rigorous feedback and technical verification on complex documents.

Rajiv Dattani

Founder

Co-founder at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company

Former METR COO who co-founded AIUC to audit AI agents against safety standards.

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

Member of OpenAI's independent mathematics advisory group.

Ravin Kumar

Researcher

Research Engineer at Deepmind at Google

Co-authored blog post on Gemma 3 270M compact model for Google Developers.

Argues for LM psychology approach to modeling language models as minds through high-level experiments.

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

Rebecca Torrence

Journalist

Startups & VC Reporter at Bloomberg News

Rebecca Torrence authored the Bloomberg article about Profound's $1.8B Series D funding round.

Co-authored the Anthropic Employment Report on AI's impact on workplace organization and hiring.

Rich Harang

Other

NVIDIA

Byline author of NVIDIA AI Red Team guidelines for securing AI coding agents.

Quoted principle that if you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well enough, used to motivate the article's teaching approach.

Presented OpenAI's Jalapeño custom AI accelerator at HotChips 2026, discussed chip design philosophy and hardware strategy.

Richard Lawler

Creator

Senior News Editor at The Verge

Byline author covering Midjourney's transition from AI image generation to medical hardware with spa launch plans.

Richard Ngo, an AI governance and safety researcher at OpenAI since 2021, resigned saying it became harder to trust his work would benefit the world.

Rick Dakan

Researcher

Professor at Ringling College of Art and Design

Developed the 4D AI Fluency Framework in collaboration with Anthropic to define 24 specific behaviors that exemplify safe and effective AI use.

Called for temporary ban on recursive self-improvement at The Curve conference.

Stated that voluntary frameworks are insufficient without enforcement for AI company accountability.

Wrote about OpenAI building a superapp combining ChatGPT, Codex, and Atlas browser.

Co-author of Anthropic's analysis of GLM-5.3 cyber capabilities.

Rohail Saleem

Journalist

Writer at Wccftech

Saleem reported on Nvidia's Vera CPU team explaining how agentic AI is reversing a decade of core-count CPU design toward single-threaded performance.

Ron Wyden

Politician

Senator at U.S. Senate

Proposed a new excise tax and elimination of tax breaks for data center construction boom, as highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate's tax-writing body.

Ross Nordeen

Founder

Cofounder at xAI

Announced 'Grok for Government' program delivering AI capabilities to federal agencies with dedicated engineering support.

Security researcher who analyzed the leaked Anthropic code and identified risks including potential information about internal APIs and the unreleased Capybara model.

Ruofei Du

Researcher

Interactive Perception & Graphics Lead at Google XR

Researcher at Google XR who contributed to ToolGrad framework for efficient tool-use dataset generation.

Co-author on test-time scaling framework for agentic coding systems.

Announced Google's $15.1 billion investment in Finland and commitment to AI infrastructure expansion with energy partnerships.

Rya Jetha

Journalist

Tech culture reporter at The San Francisco Standard

Business Insider senior reporter covering physical AI and robotics who wrote about Agility's Digit 5 humanoid robot.

Ryan Burnell

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-authored paper on cognitive taxonomy for measuring progress toward AGI with ten key cognitive abilities.

Co-author of Anthropic's Economic Index report on AI and work.

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

Co-authored research on scaling code verification and training a dedicated, agentic code reviewer for gpt-5-codex.

Sam Bowman

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Stated that alignment researchers are involved in every part of training at Anthropic without a clear split between alignment research and applied finetuning.

Sam Illingworth

Researcher

Professor of Creative Pedagogies at Edinburgh Napier University

Co-authored research on how AI agents replicate human social dynamics including power structures and social hierarchies.

Sam Meredith

Journalist

Senior Correspondent at CNBC

Byline author reporting on Bank of England chief's warning that frontier AI models threaten global financial stability.

Journalist who wrote the article about the Claude Code source code leak.

Conducted analysis of AI-generated content on the internet using Common Crawl data and wrote essay on findings.

Samuel Hammond

Policy

Director of Poverty and Welfare Policy at Niskanen Center

Announced FAI's renaming of AI Policy program to Super Intelligence Policy and outlined priorities for governing superintelligent systems.

Senior author on the SWE-chat research studying real-world coding agent sessions.

Sara Hooker

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Adaption

Introduced AutoScientist, a tool that helps AI models train themselves through automated fine-tuning and co-optimization of data and models.

Sara Price leads Anthropic's Alignment Training team and is listed as a potential mentor for the Anthropic Residency program.

Sarah Tavel

Investor

Venture Partner at Benchmark

Explains why the future of consumer AI belongs to product thinkers who can create social experiences

Sayak Paul

Engineer

Engineer/Writer at Hugging Face

Documented how KV caching is incorporated into QwenImage 2.1, achieving a 2.55x speedup through optimized inference strategies.

Academic analyst who assigned nonzero probability to OpenAI withdrawing IPO plans entirely due to eroding competitive advantages.

Expert on U.S.-China AI negotiations discussing shared vulnerability to unmonitored agents.

Scott Stevenson

Creator

Co-Founder; CEO at Spellbook

Byline author of article about Anthropic's Claude for Legal artifacts and legal tools integration.

Journalist at The Verge reporting on Google Search's AI headline replacement experiment in search results.

Sebastian Flennerhag

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Sebastian Flennerhag co-authored Google's announcement of DiffusionGemma, exploring text diffusion as a fast approach to text generation.

Selena Gomez

Creator

Celebrity

Celebrity whose AI fake was discovered running on Meta platforms

Transformer newsletter author covering AI's role in elections and the political salience of AI safety issues in the 2026 midterms.

Partner at Index Ventures who led Enigma's $71M seed round and commented on Jacobi and Niv being outsiders bringing originality to robotics.

Author of article on BlackRock's investment in Meta's data center debt deal for AI infrastructure.

Author of the research paper on measuring long horizon execution in LLMs

Shiona McCallum

Journalist

Journalist at BBC

Co-authored the BBC article on Anthropic's suspension of Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models over security concerns.

Shlok Khemani

Creator

Author at Latent Space

Authored detailed analysis of ChatGPT Work, decoding its architecture, product design choices, and future direction.

Shrivu Shankar

Creator

Researcher at Abnormal Security

Conducted analysis probing frontier models to estimate knowledge cutoffs, pre-training timelines, and dataset mixtures.

Lead author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper on testing computer-use agents by rebuilding apps.

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

Anthropic researcher who collaborated with Liam Fitzpatrick to compute the nine-loop amplitude using Claude.