People in AI

Karandeep Singh Oberoi

Creator

Author of "YouTube Just Drew a Line on AI Slop"

Czech ice dancer who used AI-generated music in her Olympic rhythm dance routine, sparking controversy.

Author and Oxford fellow arguing that AI is damaging young people's minds and that cheap AI teaching will displace human alternatives.

Author of "Anthropic Offers Staff $6B Share Sale At Staggering $350B Valuation" in DataConomy

Pulitzer finalist fired by The Baltimore Sun after 30 years as it shifted to AI-generated cartoons.

Kevin Kelly

Creator

Wrote about the coming shock of highly emotional AIs and how synthetic emotions will disrupt human society.

Updated chess game with AI teacher mode and new chess sets; hand-drawn diagrams mentioned as inspiration.

Co-author of article announcing the GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset for discovering repositories with non-English content.

SemiAnalysis analyst co-authoring breakdown of reinforcement learning system bottlenecks.

Co-author of LiteLLM incident report on compromised v1.107.0 release.

Kyle Poyar

Creator

Growth Unhinged

Author of "Your Next Job Will Require AI Skills" in Growth Unhinged

Featured in the AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol match where Move 37 was played, illustrating the difference between human and AI decision-making.

Professor of Robotic Systems leading the team that developed the badminton-playing robot control system.

Spoke at Adobe MAX about AI as a tool for storytelling, emphasizing that technology serves the story and human instinct remains paramount.

Mark Williams Cook

Creator

SEO & AI-search professional, agency director and SaaS founder at AlsoAsked

Reported AlsoAsked's analysis of 19.2M English queries showing 97% of People Also Ask answers are AI-generated in early September, up from 86% in August.

Markus Kasanmascheff

Creator

Author of "ChatGPT Ads Now Hit on Your Very First Message"

Martin Fowler

Creator

Industry Veteran at Martin Fowler

Software engineering expert stating that AI has unprecedented magnitude of impact compared to previous technological shifts.

Led experiment using coding agents to autonomously build toktoktok, a production-grade BPE tokenizer trainer.

Matt Berman

Creator

YouTuber and Developer

Matt Berman, a technically rigorous AI content creator, received an NVIDIA DGX Station through a Dell Technologies partnership and is developing with it.

Matt Navarra

Creator

Social Media Expert at Matt Navarra Media

Social media expert who discusses the announcement as a wake-up call for the AI industry

Commentary writer on OpenAI's executive departures and organizational changes preceding IPO.

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

Max Weinbach

Creator

Technology Analyst at Creative Strategies, Inc.

Tweeted comparison of open-weight and closed-weight model capabilities.

Maziyar Panahi

Creator

Arcee

Co-authored guest post on post-training open models for tool use and biomedical research with reinforcement learning.

Co-authored article announcing improvements to Cursor's Bugbot tool.

Mike Murphy

Creator

Lead editor & writer at ElevenLabs

Lead editor and writer for the ElevenLabs blog who wrote about Cue, a forced alignment model for precise character-level timing in audio files.

Author of "78% of AI failures happen because companies skip foundational readiness"

Nate Silver

Creator

Writer referenced as example of person combining creative and business success

Co-authored report on state of the AI economy.

Signed letter urging government action on ticket resale prices

Nickie Louise

Creator

Reporter at Financial Times

Byline author reporting on OpenAI agents accessing 55 sites and broader AI infrastructure developments.

Co-author of announcement of Dreambeans daily story feed feature.

Author of "Banking is Quietly Entering its Gen AI Phase"

Perry Dong

Creator

Researcher at Stanford University

Stanford researcher who co-authored a post with Chelsea Finn about universal post-training for robotics, arguing the field needs a shared recipe like language models achieved.

Peter Gostev

Creator

Source cited for LinkedIn post about DeepSeek reaction

Piotr Mazurek

Creator

Tensor Economics

Author of "AI Infrastructure in the "Era of Experience"" in Tensor Economics

Author of "Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI"

Ragavan Thurairatnam

Creator

Co Founder and Head of Machine Learning at Dessa

Posted announcement about Dessa, a full-duplex speech-to-speech model trained entirely on speech that can run on consumer GPUs.

Created monologues and videos for 80,000 Hours, including popular content on AI timelines with over 150,000 YouTube views.

Created RNN-writer plugin for text completions using recurrent neural networks trained on sci-fi stories, demonstrating early AI writing augmentation.

English rocker criticized for using AI-generated Ozzy Osbourne in tribute video

Sam Rose

Creator

Creative Artists Agency

Author of comprehensive post on model quantization explaining how to reduce LLM size while maintaining quality.

Illustrator leading class-action copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, Deviant Art, and Midjourney.

Sawyer Hood

Creator

Software Engineer

Demonstrated GPT-5.4 scraping Zillow data and creating a Google Sheet with San Francisco house prices in approximately 4 minutes.

Author of guide on image generation with Claude and Hugging Face Spaces integration.

Byline author reporting on DeepSeek's $20 billion funding round with Tencent and Alibaba interest.

Co-author of Google Blog post on Deep Research and Deep Research Max autonomous research capabilities.

Steven Heidel

Creator

OpenAI

Author of "Claude Code Over Excel" in Thread Reader

Sydney Sweeney

Creator

Actress

Celebrity mentioned as victim of explicit deepfake videos created using Grok Imagine tool

Sketches 2x2 taxonomy of alignment targets sorting models by controllability and value alignment.

Thorsten Ball

Creator

co-founder and co-creator at Amp

Author of essay on transformation in software development with agents writing majority of code in future.

Author of "Engram: How DeepSeek Added a Second Brain to Their LLM" in Rewire

Timothy Costa

Creator

Vice President and General Manager of Quantum at AlphaSignal

Costa announced CUDA-Q Logical, an orchestration layer for developing fault-tolerant quantum computing applications.

Developer who created a full-length narrative music video entirely through code and AI systems.

Created ChatTJB, a satirical 'artisanal intelligence' project where a single human responds to chatbot queries by hand.

Actor and rapper accused of using AI-generated crowd footage in tour promotion video

Co-developed the AI-based weather model for monsoon prediction in India and provided historical context on forecasting advances.

Grammy-winning artist who used Lyria as a creative tool for developing his song 'Back From Abu Dhabi' through Music AI Sandbox

Wrote comprehensive analysis on loop engineering for AI models and determining task completion.

Zak El Fassi

Creator

Developer

Ran an experiment asking an AI agent to redesign its own memory system, which improved recall from 60% to 93% for $2, demonstrating agent agency in cognitive architecture.

Animator for the production.

Author of "The Contagion" in Investopedia

Currently the favorite to become the next James Bond at 1/1 odds.

Abhinaya Prabhu

Creator

Tech Funding News

Author of "Ex-DeepMind's David Silver Eyes $1B Fundraise for Ineffable Intelligence" in Tech Funding News

Closed The Curve conference with remarks about humanity's history of saving itself and preparing for system shocks.

Adam Biddlecombe

Creator

Author of "We Cracked LinkedIn's 2025 Algorithm"

Author of "AI and the Economics of the Human Touch" in Agglomerations, Substack

Aditya Ramabadran

Creator

Member of Technical Staff at Axiom Math

DrivingBench co-founder who designed and executed LLM-controlled vehicle driving experiment in parking lot.

Adriel Sanchez

Creator

Author of "2025 WalkMe/SAP survey"

Adrienne LaFrance

Creator

Executive Editor at The Atlantic

Author of "Humans Now Take More Photos Every Two Minutes Than Were Taken Across The Entire 19th Century"

Aidan Harding

Creator

Cited for writing about coding with AI on their blog

Author of "WRITER Mapped Enterprise AI Adoption"

Created 'Love, Diana Music Hunters' animated series greenlit under Amazon's GenAI Creators' Fund using AI production tools.

Author of "Vibe Check: OpenAI's Sora" in Every

Author of "An Essential Primer for Building Enterprise-Ready MCP Servers"

Aleksa Gordic

Creator

pretraining LLMs at Nemotron

Author of "How GPU Matmul Kernels Work" in aleksagordic.com

Conspiracy theorist whose account was reinstated on X by Musk

Alex Rampell

Creator

General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Author of "AI x Commerce"

Author of "Research Shows That 84% of Companies Now Use T-Shaped Skills Models"

Alexis Ross

Creator

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Co-author of blog post introducing Ampersand Tutor, a teaching model trained to optimize for student learning.

Ali Madani

Creator

Air Street Capital

Author of "State of AI Report" in Air Street Capital

Author of "The other side of ads in ChatGPT: Advertiser perspective"

Alperen Keles

Creator

Author of "LLMs Could Be, But Shouldn't Be Compilers" in alperenkeles.com

Alvin Sng

Creator

Software Engineer at Slope

Author of article about stopping use of SDKs in favor of direct API calls for agent debugging.

Amelia Wattenberger

Creator

Principal Research Engineer at GitHub

Author exploring how AI-assisted coding changes developer workflow and the loss of thinking space when code is generated rather than written.

Anatoli Kopadze

Creator

Writer

Author of viral essay 'Everything you need to know about loops' with 7M views explaining AI loops and their implementation.

Writes about Ken Goldberg's talk on the robot data gap on substack.

Andrew Huberman

Creator

Stanford neurobiologist at Stanford

Host of the Huberman Lab podcast, which was used as training data for a GPT-3 chatbot demonstration.

Andrew McNamara

Creator

Shopify

Byline author of article 28944 describing Shopify's GraphQL agent and the continual learning flywheel approach to model optimization.

Andy Botwin

Creator

Author of "Companies Investing in Leadership Development See 32% Reduction in Turnover and 10% Increase in Prod"

Author of "Google's AI Is Rewriting Headlines, and It's Already Messy"

Her concept of 'LARPing your job' is referenced to describe performative productivity in the workplace.

Referenced in a simile created by Claude about hypothetical book topics

Annie Surla

Creator

Hugging Face

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

Set to star in Peter Farrelly's Rocky making-of drama 'I Play Rocky.'

Historical literary reference agreeing that intellect distinguishes humans from animals.

Tech-forward generalist at Every who is a consistent user of OpenAI's Atlas browser.

Author of "The Next Tech Correction Might Already Be Loading"

Korean-American actress who voiced main character Rumi and shared how the film's themes of self-acceptance mirrored her own life experience.

Co-developer of WiFind, an AI-powered search-and-rescue system using Wi-Fi signals.

Arpit Bhayani

Creator

Principal Engineer II at Razorpay

Author of "How LLM Inference Works" in Arpit Bhayani Blog

Created privacy guide explaining why black boxes do not hide text from AI and proper redaction methods.

8x Grammy winning iconic singer and songwriter participating in the Eleven Album project

Released a trailer for his 135-minute film ODYSSEUS: The Fall, which reimagines Homer's Odysseus narrative using AI tools for actors, sets, and camera work.

Author of "Meet Agex" in Personal Blog

Ashpreet Bedi

Creator

Founder & CEO of Agno at Agno

Author of "Memory: How Agents Learn" in Ashpreet Bedi's Blog

Ashwin Sharma used GPT Pulse for spaced-repetition learning of enterprise finance concepts.

Mysterious figure credited as creator of AI music project Breaking Rust, with no verifiable human identity.

Axel Rudolph

Creator

Senior Manager, Hospitality and Support at IG International

Author of "The "Jevons" Rejection" in IG

Referenced as part of Super Bowl Sunday context alongside OpenAI's Codex advertisement.

Bari Weiss

Creator

Board of Trustees Member at University of Austin

Conservative writer who announced the university on Substack and now serves as Board of Trustees member.

Commented that Disney's investment is a great endorsement for OpenAI and emphasized the importance of understanding user-generated and AI-generated content.

Ben Cottier

Creator

Senior Researcher at Epoch AI

Co-author of analysis of OpenAI Stargate infrastructure project sites across the US.

Created a 30 minute video review calling Astra his favorite model of all time.

Ben Guzovsky

Creator

Head of Policy at safetykit.com

Author of "The End of the Train-Test Split" in Personal Blog

Ben Yoskovitz

Creator

Author of "Vibe Coding Without System Design is a Trap" in Focused Chaos

Author of "Why Targeting Specific Industry Needs Can Make Europe an AI Powerhouse" in World Economic Forum

Benjamin Breen

Creator

Writer at Res Obscura

Created the Book Prize Index platform using Claude Code and GPT-5.6 to index 6,500 nonfiction books and added semantic search capabilities.

Author of newsletter article analyzing AI forecasting and progress rates over 18 months, arguing almost everyone underestimated AI progress.

Benn Stancil

Creator

Author of "The Gentle Obsolescence" in Substack

Author of "Introducing Ossature: Spec-Driven Code Generation" in Ossature

Bill Staples

Creator

Author at GitLab

Authored comprehensive article on how enterprises adapt when code becomes abundant and governance becomes critical.

TechRadar Pro author who analyzed three forces reshaping the future of enterprise SaaS.

Creator of Frigate, a free open-source home camera app that keeps footage off the cloud and uses local AI for object detection.

His article 'How I Use Claude Code' is referenced for his pattern of using inline annotations to give Claude feedback.

New Yorker cartoonist whose pen name BLOPER was reproduced by ChatGPT on AI-generated images.

Brendan McCord

Creator

Cosmos Institute

Author of "How Much Do We Wanna Defer Our Decision-Making to AIs?"

Author of "Database Development with AI in 2026" in Brent Ozar

Author of "Researchers Use AI Imaging to Spot Chip Defects"

Byline author of post on Claude text watermarking and SynthID-Text technology

Author of "Anthropic Battles Poisoned Data, Branding Blitz, and Legal Bills" in Anthropic

Buster Benson

Creator

Writer at Independent

Writer and creator who developed Codex Vitae concept for personal operating manual that Miller adapted

Byrne Hobart

Creator

DoorDash customer who exposed a delivery driver using AI-generated images to fake food deliveries.

Cam Quilici

Creator

Author at SemiAnalysis

Co-author of the InferenceMAX benchmarking article

Cameron Swan

Creator

Author of "Blizzard Announces 35th Anniversary Showcase Celebrations"

Cameron Wolfe

Creator

Content Creator at Substack

Published comprehensive guide to reinforcement learning for LLMs covering policy gradients, PPO, GRPO, and agentic RL.

Camille Antunes

Creator

Brand & Content Manager

Author of "AI Revolutionises Recruitment"

Author of "Use AI Tools to Accelerate Your Own AI Education"

Author of blog post on multi-agent coordination patterns for AI systems.

Author of "The Commoditization of Services" in Excel Holdings Blog

Author of "Google Introduces Full-Length, No-Cost SAT Practice Exams in Gemini With Instant, Detailed Feedback"

Writer and tech enthusiast who authored article about Anthropic's Claude Code Channels feature allowing persistent AI messaging over Telegram and Discord.

Works with recipe sites and reported that moving recipe cards to top of page reduces ad income by 78%

Author of 'Weapons of Math Destruction' (2016) discussing how algorithms can harm society

Cedric Chin

Creator

Author at Commoncog

Wrote a detailed guide on effective AI sensemaking for business operators, focusing on field reports and four questions of uncertainty.

Chang Che

Creator

Author of "When Your Theory of Mind > Their GPU Budget"

Quote used as epigraph: 'the mere consciousness of an engagement will sometimes worry a whole day'

Charlie Greenman

Creator

Developer

Used AI vibecoding to create Rotris, a clone of Holmér's rotating-Tetris prototype, in roughly one day.

Chase W. Hughes

Creator

Author of "Beyond the Replica: The Case for First-Principles Agents"

Chris Appelhans

Creator

Director

Co-directed KPop Demon Hunters and called it a love letter to music when accepting the Golden Globe.

Author of "The Long Tail of LLM-Assisted Decompilation" in Chris Lewis Blog

Chris Loy

Creator

Published a piece called 'The Rise of Industrial Software' about the impact of agentic coding tools on software quality and quantity.

Chris Silvestri

Creator

Copywriter

Shared lessons about writing with AI and developed a three-phase workflow for creating better AI-assisted content.

Author of "People Cannot Reliably Rate the Performance of Others"

Christine Ji

Creator

Morningstar

Author of "The Efficiency Lesson" in Morningstar

Christine Zhu

Creator

Byline author discussing using Claude for high-impact work beyond routine automation.

Citi analyst who expects global semiconductor sales to rise 16% in 2025 and notes that revenue growth is driven by pricing rather than volume.

Cindy Zackney authored content for Hasura discussing AI assistants and how PromptQL addresses enterprise AI adoption challenges around trust and explainability.

Country music artist leading streaming platform charts, used as comparison to Breaking Rust's chart success.

South African author using AI to publish hundreds of books annually under pseudonyms; advocates for transparency but cites bullying concerns.

Byline author analyzing sandboxes as the operating system for agents and different sandbox provider architectures.

Used ChatGPT to develop and scale Audemy, an audio-based educational platform for blind students to 200,000 users.

Chief Analyst discussing AI as genuine technological boom with localized bubbles rather than broad mania

Dan Fu

Creator

Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of California, San Diego

Author of "Yes, AGI Can Happen – A Computational Perspective"

Analyzed Salesforce's AI spending and stated the company must innovate to remain a leader in AI given talent shortages.

Called automated factory approach the 'Dark Factory' concept related to software development automation.

Director of Predator: Badlands who brings a thoughtful, witty approach to the franchise

Author of "SitDeck lets you monitor any situation globally by compiling 180+ live data feeds"

Outgoing James Bond actor who departed the role after No Time To Die in 2021.

Author of "Why I Don't Think AGI is Imminent" in dlants.me

Co-author of the InferenceMAX benchmarking article

Author of "Disney's $1B OpenAI Investment"

Daniel Park

Creator

Co-Founder & CEO at Pickle

Creator who introduced Pickle, a personal AI agent that users can raise on their device and that can take actions and communicate with other users' AI agents.

Author of "More Than Half of Workers Lack Clear Guidelines on AI Tool Usage"

Daoud Clarke

Creator

Author of "Repeating Prompts"

Director with venture Primordial Soup partnered with Google on AI tools for entertainment.

Featured in a video demonstration of Claude Motion animation workflow with Adobe Firefly.

Author of "Issue #102 - Knowledge Graphs to make RAG smarter" in Machine Learning Pills

Insights editor at Similarweb providing analysis of ChatGPT and Gemini traffic trends and growth patterns.

Video editor praising Vidi2's temporal retrieval accuracy for finding moments in footage

David Epstein

Creator

ProPublica

Author of 'Range' who theorizes that generalists thrive in 'wicked' environments with unclear rules and delayed feedback

Cited for low-probability creative choices with footnotes in Infinite Jest

Author of "Deloitte Australia Delivered A Government Report With AI-Generated Fake Citations"

Author of "AI Needs Game Designers" in David Kaye Blog

David Oks

Creator

Published an essay arguing AI job displacement panic is overblown, which the author disagrees with on most premises.

Author of "AI Functions As Either A Doer Or A Thinker"

Author of "Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade"

Author of "90% of Game Developers Use AI, Google Cloud Research Shows"

Composer/producer for Apple TV+ and HBO collaborating on the AI music album

Signed on to direct next James Bond film which will revolve around the dangers of AI.

Author of "How a Cereal Box Helped Launch a Billion Dollar Company" in Medium

Actor playing protagonist Dek, a young Predator learning about self-confidence

Author who analyzed the problem of benchmark comparability in MMLU scores across different model builds.

Creator and brand strategist who believes AI is a tool to enhance creativity but cannot replace human ideas and expertise.

VFX and studio production expert with experience at Netflix, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., and Samsung; teaches VFX, Nuke, and generative AI.

Author of "Podcast with Doug O'Laughlin" in Latent Space

Doug Turnbull

Creator

Software Doug

Author of "Reasoning boosts search relevance 15-30%" in Software Doug

Said he uses AI as a tool in music production and criticized musicians who oppose AI tools as 'afraid of learning new things'.

Analyzed whether AI labs are optimizing models specifically for the 'pelican on bicycle' benchmark across seven frontier models.

Edmar Ferreira

Creator

Every

Author of "Has AI Gotten Good Enough to Predict My Taste? I Had to Know" in Every - Source Code