People in AI

Edward Donner

Creator

Educator and Course Creator

Created an 8-week hands-on LLM engineering course with practical projects for learning AI development and agentic systems.

Eli Pariser

Creator

Co-director at New_ Public

Guest contributor describing observations and reflections from The Curve 2026 AI conference.

Elie Habib

Creator

Developer

Creator and copyright holder of World Monitor, an open-source geopolitical monitoring dashboard.

Eliot Peper

Creator

Sci-fi Novelist

Co-creator of Tolans AI companions and author of multiple articles about AI as a storytelling medium

Author of "Modern CRM Platforms Like HubSpot and Salesforce"

Author of "Pope Leo XIV Disapproves of AI Pope Proposal"

Cited as a critic famous for non-probabilistic adjectives in artistic criticism

Actor who plays protagonist Lucy MacLean in Fallout, featured in a scene incorrectly summarized by the AI recap.

Actress playing Thia, a legless android character

Elliot Lindberg

Creator

Creator at Lovable

Posted on X introducing Lovable Payments feature allowing users to add payments and monetize websites through chat.

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

Ellis Rosen

Creator

Cartoonist at The New Yorker

New Yorker cartoonist whose signature is reproduced by ChatGPT.

Rock and roll legend who died of cardiac arrhythmia at age 42

Nashville-based singer/songwriter and electronic music vocalist collaborating on the AI music album

New Yorker contributor since 2008 whose pen name e. flake appears on ChatGPT-generated cartoons.

Author of "Circle to Search Identifies Anything on Screen"

Author of "Windows 12 Will Have AI At Its Core"

Author of "The WAU Effect" in Mobile Dev Memo

Wrote about Google Sheets Canvas, a new feature that transforms spreadsheets into interactive dashboards using Gemini AI.

Author of "Apple vs. the AI Hype Cycle"

Author of "Eric Landis - Business Valuation"

Author of 'The Lean Startup' which framed startups as laboratories and entrepreneurs as scientists.

Author of "We Lost Our Kids to Social Media Now AI Gen Z" in Fortune

Author of 'The Splendid and the Vile,' a Winston Churchill biography used as a demo example.

Co-authored announcement of Cursor's updated Design Mode for agent-assisted UI editing.

Byline author writing about LLM usage in writing and editing practices.

Wrote essay Models Don't Go Rogue examining human decisions in AI training and deployment underlying agent incidents.

Ethan Ding

Creator

TextQL

Authored analysis of Cursor's acquisition by xAI, explaining the strategic dynamics between model labs and application layers.

Co-author of the article 'The Vertical AI Playbook'

Etisha Garg

Creator

software engineer at Cline

Presented Cline Desktop, an open-source app for open-weight AI models enabling parallel agents and recurring task automation.

Author of "Google adds creative Nano Banana visuals and short-form Briefs to NotebookLM Video Overviews"

Evan

Creator

Writer at Every

Mentioned as a writer/team member at Every working alongside Dan Shipper.

US ice dancer who performed with traditional Lenny Kravitz medley at Olympics.

Author of "How Benchmaxxed is gpt-oss-120b?" in cmart.blog

Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez

Creator

Computational social scientist at TU Dresden (SynoSys) and Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Author of "Massive Study on 740,000 Hours of Human Speech"

Faizan Ali co-authored a walkthrough for Semrush's Model Context Protocol integration with Claude for website auditing.

Shared a workflow for managing a fleet of AI agents using coordinators and plans in a Markdown-based system.

Directed the 'Subway' video demo for Luma AI Ray3

Charted path forward for junior engineers with the principle that hunger beats tenure.

Community member from Belgium who shared AI workflow for personal recommendation engine and optimization approaches.

Finn Mallery

Creator

Creator

Byline author arguing that 2026 is an optimal window for solo founders to build companies using AI tools for design, development, and operations.

Quoted as saying readers access human-made art because they know there's a human behind it and being fooled by AI is a con.

Fredrika Lindh

Creator

Cursor

Co-author of blog post introducing Cursor Projects feature for agent-based software development.

Developer and Unity tool maker who prototyped a rotating-Tetris game and saw it cloned by AI-assisted developers within days of posting.

Co-authored article on GPU management and utilization optimization for enterprise AI infrastructure.

Gabriele Cirulli

Creator

Game Developer

Created the game 2048 inspired by 1024; later faced accusations of copying indie game Threes! but maintains he was inspired rather than copying.

Gai Berkovich

Creator

Google

Byline author announcing Waze's new Gemini conversational capabilities for navigation and map reporting.

Original bassist of Stone Roses whose recent death prompted this tribute performance

Author of "How to Use Computing Power Faster: On the Weird Economics of Semiconductors and GenAI"

Lead singer of The Clone Roses who delivered emotional tribute to Mani during the performance

Author of "Training a 67M-Parameter Transformer on an M4 Mac Mini" in geddydukes.com

Gena Gorlin

Creator

Psychologist at Independent/Clinical Practice

Co-teaching a course on using ChatGPT with psychology insights for goal achievement.

Geoff Weiss

Creator

Senior Reporter at Business Insider

Author of "Nvidia Just Locked Down a Multigenerational Deal With Meta"

Conducted podcast interview with Manuel Diez about AI-driven business transformation.

Established New Yorker cartoonist whose signature ChatGPT reproduces on AI-generated images.

Star Wars creator stated AI makes movies easier and is inevitable progress; rejected notion of resisting AI.

George RR Martin

Creator

Author

Referenced as a comparison point for the quality of AI-generated literary works

Author of analysis on Meta's AI-driven workforce transformation plans and engineering culture.

Author of "Building AI Products In The Probabilistic Era" in Gian Segato Essays

Content creator and founder using AI video tools to create rough cuts, saving over 10 hours per week and driving 20% income increase.

Giuseppe Gurgone

Creator

Independent engineer

Author of "Use Comment Directives As Inline Prompts For Claude Code" in giuseppegurgone.com

Author of "68% of Employees Want AI Training More Than Job Guarantees" in Predictive Index

Author of report on AI-driven business implementations; founder of Detailed (now part of Ahrefs) discussing how companies use AI to increase conversions and revenue.

Created and maintains the Made With ML course teaching 40K+ developers production-grade ML practices.

Director of the concert film 'What Happened To The Earth?'

Author of "Strategy in Four Worlds" in Squishy Computer

Author of "Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case"

Greg Diamos

Creator

Author of "LLM-Deflate: Extracting LLMs Into Datasets"

Co-host of It's New recap covering Google's AI payments pilot, Maps changes, and sponsored product grid testing.

Wrote article analyzing ArtificialAnalysis' intelligence vs. cost plots and their misleading use of logarithmic scales.

Guillaume Meyer

Creator

Memo

Guillaume Meyer published a critical analysis of Anthropic's AI watermarking technique and created a tool to remove the watermarks, which went viral with over 9,000 GitHub stars in less than three days.

Gurpreet Narwan

Creator

Sky News

Author of "The UK–US AI Pact Is Bigger Than You Think"

Co-authored article on GPU management and utilization optimization for enterprise AI infrastructure.

Published 'Programming in the Age of Abundance' blog arguing that AI will lead to software expansion across industries

Apologized for unhealthy reliance on AI chatbots in video production and discussed concerns about AI's impact on climate and economic consolidation.

Co-authored report on state of the AI economy.

Haokun Qin

Creator

Co-Founder at Gale

Byline author analyzing USCIS AI implementation for document processing, officer training, and fraud detection.

Harrison Satcher

Creator

Econ @ OpenAI at OpenAI

Writer arguing that labor forecasts miss emerging job categories that do not yet exist as nouns, drawing parallels to how cybersecurity emerged.

New Yorker cartoonist whose signature has been reproduced by ChatGPT on AI-generated cartoons.

Critics noted that certain phrases from OpenAI's piece seem derivative of his work

German musician whose song 'Atemlos Durch die Nacht' was one of the copyrighted works used to train ChatGPT.

German musician whose 1984 hit 'Männer' was among the nine copyrighted songs used to train ChatGPT without permission.

Finance professional (CPA, CPV) who built PPT Master, an open-source tool that generates fully editable PowerPoint decks from documents using AI.

Byline author discussing prescriptive analytics and how to turn data insights into action.

Science fiction author whose Culture books inspire Musk's vision for an AI-human utopian future; SpaceX drone ships named after Banks' starships.

Co-authored announcement of Cursor Design Mode updates for spatial agent interaction with code.

Ian Nuttall

Creator

X (formerly Twitter)

Author of "Claude Code 1.0.86 has a new /context command to visualize your context window and token usage" in X (formerly Twitter)

Author of article sharing 38 lessons learned from building 10 different AI products at PostHog.

Iman Gadzhi

Creator

Creator

Created YouTube video demonstrating 10 Claude AI tips for productivity and automation.

Commented that Oracle's report confirmed concerns around heavy AI spending financed by debt with unknown revenue timeline.

Author of "Chinese AI in 2025, Wrapped"

Ishaan Jaff

Creator

LiteLLM

Co-author of the article investigating LiteLLM supply chain attack and vulnerability disclosure.

Author of "Cybernetics and Ghosts" in Freie Universität Berlin

AKB48 newcomer selected by AI to perform 'Omoide Scroll' based on her emotional storytelling abilities.

Co-authored an article about AI orchestration and how AI becomes the computer through multi-model coordination.

Author of "IBM Research Confirms Knowledge Decay"

Author of "Covid Scams Are Finally Being Caught, By AI"

Demonstrated Meta's Live AI feature at MetaConnect 2025, attempting to use AI glasses to create a Korean-inspired steak sauce.

Worked on ElevenLabs' production of The Odyssey audiobook using AI voices and sound design.

Author of "Building Threat Models with MCP and AI Agents" in Detection at Scale

Musician quoted saying 'ease of use' is the disease to fight in creative fields, asserting creativity is aligned with difficulty

Jacob Trefethen

Creator

Program Officer at Coefficient Giving

Author of "AI Will Not Suddenly Lead to an Alzheimer's Cure" in Jacob Trefethen's Blog

Author of "Context Engineering Series Explores Building Better Agentic RAG Systems" in jxnl.co

Author of "AI welfare as a demotivator for takeover" in LessWrong

Directing the Rambo prequel origin story currently in development.

Cameron joined the board of AI firm Stability AI, demonstrating creative industry support for AI.

James Peckham

Creator

Author of "The Hardware of the Century (Allegedly)"

YouTuber highlighting video QA feature for clip compilation

Jamie Pine

Creator

Developer

Created Voicebox, an open-source local AI voice studio for voice cloning and speech generation in 23 languages.

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

Author of "RLLM = RL + LM-as-RM"

Author of "Women Are Rewarded for Collaborative Behaviors While Men Are Rewarded for Both Collaborative and Ass"

New Yorker cartoonist since 2014 whose signature is reproduced by ChatGPT; part of Authors Guild lawsuit against Anthropic.

Co-author of article on data and AI agents requiring proper context layers.

Author of "Adobe Brings AI Directly Into Premiere and After Effects With New Video and Motion Design Tools"

Jaspreet Singh

Creator

Author of "Meta partners with Midjourney to license AI tech for future products"

Jay Alammar

Creator

Author of "Jay Alammar Explains GPT-OSS With Visual Guide"

Author references Jay Allamar's 'Illustrated Transformer' as an influential resource for understanding transformer architecture through visual explanation.

Author of "Supermarket Chatbot Goes Rogue"

Author of "Jeanette Winterson on AI Alternative Intelligence: Its Capacity to Be Other Is Just What the Human R" in The Guardian

Jeff Synthesized

Creator

Founder/creative lead at NeoCinemaAI

Independent filmmaker who won the Future Vision XPRIZE grand prize for the AI film 'The Gifted' about recreating a mother's voice with AI.

Jeffrey Emanuel

Creator

Tech Entrepreneur and Former Quantitative Investor at Lumera Network

Wrote a viral blog post warning that DeepSeek's efficiency suggests the AI industry has been massively overprovisioning compute resources.

Jim Prosser

Creator

Tech communications consultant at Stream Deck

Built a chief of staff system using Claude Code to automate email triage, task management, and calendar scheduling with AI agents running in parallel.

Discussed how AI has changed software development by making flashy, demoable outputs easy to create but leaving codebases unfinished.

Author of Cloudflare's Content Independence Day post about new AI crawler categorization and blocking options.

Wrote article about agent autonomy levels and delegation frameworks for AI agents.

Referenced via Joyce Carol Oates for her creative process beginning with images rather than plot

João Moura

Creator

Engineer Manager

Highlighted AI agents capable of building themselves and indicating progress in autonomous, self-improving AI systems.

20-year New Yorker contributor whose signature appears on AI-generated cartoons.

Author of "How to Build a School With AI" in Spotify

Joel Jang

Creator

Co-founder & CEO at Dream Labs

Author of "World Models and the Data Problem in Robotics"

Analyst asking questions about Experiences inventory building strategy and quality management

Writer referenced as example of person combining creative and business success

Author of "OpenAI Can't Beat Google in Consumer AI" in Substack

Director of Amazon Prime series using 40 AI scenes in first season and 400 in second season of House of David.

Jonathan Hefner

Creator

Author at Vercel

Announced Agent Plugins 1.0.0 open standard for packaging reusable AI agent skills and MCP servers.

Jordan Mechner

Creator

Author of "The Making of Prince of Persia" in Stripe Press

Created 'Punky Duck' animated series greenlit under Amazon's GenAI Creators' Fund, demonstrating AI-assisted animation production.

Joseph Ruscio

Creator

Heavybit Industries

Hosted Simon Willison on High Leverage podcast to discuss AI coding paradigm shift.

Cofounder discussing the use of jigs in AI-assisted interface design and the parallels with woodworking

Joshua Moshier

Creator

Musician

Composer of 'Bang! Whack!' music featured in the iPhone 17e product launch video

Joyce Carol Oates

Creator

Quoted discussing Joan Didion's creative process

Former Facebook VP who turned her management insights into a bestselling book and writes regularly on Substack.

Julie-Anne Barnes

Creator

Senior Journalist at BBC Scotland News

Author of "Friend Stole My Face For Deepfake Nudes – Now I Want Tougher Laws" in bbc.com

Julien Simon

Creator

AI Operating Partner at Fortino Capital, Author of The AI Realist newsletter at airealist.ai

Author of detailed technical analysis of Apple's 20-billion-parameter on-device Core Advanced model.

Justin Abrahms

Creator

Principal Engineer at Justin Abrahms Blog

Author of "Wrapping My Head Around Gas Town" in Justin Abrahms Blog

Byline author discussing DX's research on AI's measured impact on engineering velocity, showing 10-15% PR throughput increases rather than 10x gains.

Justin Searls

Creator

Author of "Why Is OpenAI So Stingy with ChatGPT Web Search?"

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

Author conducting comparative testing of AI video generation tools

Subject of deepfake video featuring celebrities responding to his antisemitic comments.

Named as an example of a creator excelling in independent media at the edge of innovation.

Karla Ortiz

Creator

Concept artist and illustrator

Ortiz criticized Scorsese for using AI trained on storyboard artists' work, undermining their livelihoods.

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

Kate Catlin

Creator

AlphaSignal

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

Katherine Grace Luna

Creator

Writer at Kate's Digest

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

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

Kaustubh Saini

Creator

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wrote article about Loop Marketing playbook combining AI efficiency with human authenticity for small business growth.

Marketing expert commenting on how LinkedIn and YouTube signals affect AI citation visibility.

Krupa Dave

Creator

Author of "Dive Into Transformer Architectures: Attention, Stacks, Modern LLMs" in krupadave.com

Kuranoo Narumi

Creator

Band Leader at AKB48

AKB48's current band leader chosen by Akimoto to perform lead vocals on his song 'Cécile'.

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

Kyle Corbitt

Creator

Author discussing AGI compute economics and predicting H100 prices will reach $30 per hour when AI agents can outperform humans at economically valuable work.

Author writing about risks of LLM summarization of legal advice to clients

Kyle Harrison

Creator

Author at Contrary Research

Co-author of the article 'The Vertical AI Playbook'

Kyle Peterdy

Creator

VP, CBCA at CFI

Author of "What Appears as Irreplaceable Intuition Is Rapid Data Processing"

Author of "The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox"

Author of "Constellation Research" in Constellation Research

Author of "VCs Now Demand AI for Startup Investment" in HubSpot for Startups

Authored technical analysis of SKILL.md format and agent skills runtime architecture.

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

Co-writer of Golden who accepted the best original song award.

Lennart Finke

Creator

ETH Zurich

Author of "What GPT-oss Leaks About OpenAI's Training Data" in fi-le.net

Leon Lin

Creator

CEO of 1stCollab at 1stCollab

Author of "Gemini 3 Deep Think Reaches New SOTA on ARC-AGI-2"

Author of "Why There Hasn't Been a ChatGPT Moment Yet in Manufacturing" in The Shear Force

Leslie Jamison

Creator

Author of "The Pain of Perfectionism" in The New Yorker

British ice dancer who performed with traditional licensed music in rhythm dance competition.

Lewis Kallow

Creator

Writer

Wrote about how trust travels through communities and its relevance to AI product adoption.

British ice dancer referenced as counterexample using traditional licensed music (Spice Girls tribute).

Lily Jamali

Creator

North America Technology Correspondent at BBC News

Author of "Google Dodges the Breakup Bullet—But AI Search Rivals Just Got a Gift"

Describes AI as programs that put random words together and shares experience with AI writing tools

Author of "Use ChatGPT to Discover Holiday Traditions Around the World" in Mindstream

Freelancer based in Spain who fixes botched AI-generated logos for clients.

Lisha Howen

Creator

Designer at WildWorks

Full-time game designer and Fortnite live-streamer who disagrees with AI being used to fully generate artwork and says AI-generated content looks terrible.

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

EGOT winner and legendary vocalist with career spanning Broadway and film collaborating on AI music album

Logan Markewich

Creator

Founding member at LlamaIndex

Byline author of article about OpenDocRouter, a document parsing platform.

Byline author proposing the 'anti-singularity' concept where AI systems are specialized heuristic optimizers rather than general intelligences.

Author of "TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?" in Hugging Face

Author of AI-Native SDLC playbook guide for transforming software development with AI.

Content professional at Ahrefs who built an AI tool using Letaido to identify trending keywords in real-time for content opportunities.