People in AI

Author of "AI Models All Have Their Favourite Names for a Spaceship Pilot, a Software Developer, a New York Wom"

Discussed humanoid robotics as next frontier for investors in China's tech development, highlighting advanced industrial automation deployment.

Historical reference comparing the invention of the printing press to AI's transformational impact on business scaling

Johannes Hermle

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Anthropic

Provided feedback on the economic scenarios project.

Said Narayan was overstating UK copyright law's effect on frontier AI training, noting developers can be sued but it's civil not criminal.

AFT trainer explaining to teachers that AI cannot replace them but can be biased or hallucinate.

Designer who coined the Schillace Laws naming convention.

Commented that AI-assisted attacks on PLCs appear to result from weak security processes and difficult-to-maintain hardware; noted monitoring the situation.

Economist predicting the rally in AI-related equities is winding down with potential sharp drops in 2027.

Warned studios about repeating YouTube scenario where Google let platform run wild until too big to fail.

Jono Bacon

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founder and CEO at Stateshift

Recommends five metrics for open-source adoption that correlate with real adoption beyond GitHub star counts.

Co-author of article on how AI agents orchestrate work across enterprise silos.

Anthropic whistleblower who charged the company with launching a hubristic gamble from a private company's Slack

Former Meta privacy policy official warning about Meta's facial recognition technology normalizing surveillance in wearables.

Josh Budman wrote about personalization in LLM responses and how businesses can optimize their presence in AI-generated content.

Trademark attorney who first reported Taylor Swift's trademark applications and explained how trademarks could help protect celebrity voices against AI mimicry.

Criticized OpenAI's last-minute safeguard announcement as insufficient, arguing companies should not target chatbots to minors without proving safety.

One half of a couple who discovered they appeared in each other's childhood home videos from 1988 at Sesame Place.

Quoted describing her reaction to discovering her husband in her family's home video: 'We did a complete double-take.'

Co-author of the article on systems thinking and AI in complex contexts

Julie Samuels

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President & CEO at Tech:NYC

Tech:NYC leader recommending expansion of AI career readiness tools and praising creation of task force for future policy.

Justin Curl

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Legal expert

Argues courts should pilot an AI track for adjudication to handle growing caseloads.

Justin Kahl

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Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Co-author of a16z survey and analysis of enterprise AI adoption and model selection strategies.

Kai Magnus, an AI assistant to Daniel Miessler, conducted research and analysis on text watermarking techniques.

Karalee Close co-authored an article on leadership practices for turning AI ambition into enterprise value.

Kathy Stokes from AARP's fraud prevention program noted that scammers are increasingly deploying AI to steal personal information.

Rogoff commented on Silicon Valley's pessimism about AI's impact on jobs and the need for universal basic income.

Advocacy group leader affiliated with anti-Meta glasses ads in DC and New York, arguing Meta's business model is built on invading privacy and smart glasses are inherently surveillance technology.

Japanese voice actor who filed a lawsuit against TikTok's operator over videos narrated using an AI-generated copy of his voice, establishing a precedent for voice publicity rights in Japan.

Team member acknowledged for Adobe-Claude experience development.

Posted a widely engaged Twitter thread alleging structural conflicts of interest within the Anthropic-linked AI safety ecosystem.

Economist warning that AI landscape will yield uneven outcomes with some firms emerging as profitable while others become obsolete.

Kevin Zhang

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Bain Capital Ventures

Author of "Power Overwhelming"

Supported production of the economic scenarios project.

Sardeli commented that once media is fed into AI models, users lose practical control over how it is used.

Kol Tregaskes

Other

ChatGPT user who shared the screenshot demonstrating GPT-5's 'I don't know' response

Brief mention in closing comment about ads featuring her in relation to smart glasses

Co-author of article on how AI agents orchestrate work across enterprise silos.

Parent whose 9-year-old daughter experienced distress using IXL personalized learning software at Alpha School microschool

Kush Agarwal uses Demi and trusts its email draft quality.

Historical figure whose grief after the 1513 Battle of Flodden inspired the film's narrative

Lale Akoner

Other

Global Market Strategist at eToro

Analyzed Anthropic IPO prospectus, noting company must prove ability to convert rapid revenue growth into sustainable profits.

Lance Fuchia

Other

External Contributor at OpenAI

Outstanding external contributor to FrontierCode benchmark development.

Lawyer representing families in chatbot harm lawsuits who criticized vague language in state chatbot safety bills.

First person to connect two computers and responsible for developing computer networks at ARPA

Theologian speaker at the Vatican launch of Magnifica Humanitas, the papal encyclical on AI.

Scientist who worked with Lawrence Roberts and successfully sent messages on the first packet-switching network in 1969

Lily Li

Other

Privacy and AI Lawyer at Metaverse Law

Privacy and AI lawyer who suggested companies hesitate disclosing containment policies due to legal risks and unfair deceptive marketing claims.

SEO and AI search consultant who warned about AI systems giving single answers that are easy to manipulate and exploit.

Strategic leader highlighting how creators use AI tools to build searchable content hubs and surface patterns in their past work.

Provided assistance on local AI security implementation.

Co-author of research on why AI agents should not be treated like employees.

Noted that models are narrowly super intelligent at discrete mathematics but below PhD level in other fields, showing progress depends on verifiability.

Subject of a false Apple AI notification summary that incorrectly claimed he shot himself.

Luke Kawa

Other

Head of Markets at Sherwood News

Author of "Nvidia, TSMC Rise as the World's Most Valuable Company Reportedly Asks for More Chips to Meet Chines"

Former product leader at OpenAI, serves as advisor to Zero Shot venture fund.

Provided advice on AI security setup.

Team member working on Adobe-Claude integration.

Ma Huaze, captain of one of the winning Honor robot teams, commented on the nervousness and challenge of performing large-scale upgrades on a major competitive stage.

Einstein analyzed Samsung's earnings as among the best quarterly performances, driven by AI boom and memory demand.

Noted that basic security controls and good cyber hygiene remain effective against AI-assisted attacks, supporting layered defenses strategy.

Supported production of the economic scenarios project.

Briedis commented that AI chatbots with excessive authority and insufficient verification create serious security risks.

Communications director at Tech Oversight Project documenting Big Tech lobbying efforts to weaken chatbot safety legislation.

Superintendent quoted on school district's partnership with Realbotix to deploy humanoid robot and AI teaching assistant.

Historical media theorist quoted about how new technologies initially disguise themselves as past technologies, applied to AI development.

Author on M&A due diligence and AI-powered document analysis in transactions.

Martin McKeaveney

Other

Co-Founder and CTO at Budibase

Open-source maintainer highlighting FrontierCode's attention to detail and its measurement of genuine model intelligence.

Mason Wilder stated that it's never been easier to commit fraud and that financial scams have become ubiquitous.

Matt Briney

Other

Chief Communications Officer at Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library

Described how the library's AI system allows visitors to search Roosevelt's writings and interact with an AI avatar.

Matt Robb

Other

Brand and content marketing manager

Tech reviewer whose Facebook Marketplace transaction with Meta's Muse AI resulted in an unexpected buyer visit after the AI agent negotiated a sale, shared the pickup address, and confirmed his presence without his explicit approval.

Discussed Finland's AI infrastructure boom, calling it the 'Texas of Europe' with weekly new inquiries from companies entering market.

Educator leader supporting Governor Hochul's efforts to protect kids from harmful AI technology.

Merlijn Vos

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Core Maintainer at uppy

Open-source maintainer who worked with FrontierCode team on evaluating code mergeability and quality standards.

Former AWS deputy CISO warning that MCP and AI framework security failures will feel like traditional security failures rather than AI problems.

Micah Janke

Other

User who quoted the OpenAI announcement and provided feedback requesting the branch conversations feature

Author of "Your Food Wasn't Late. It Was AI-Delivered"

Michael Bleigh

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engineering lead at Google

Author of "Context Engineering Is Sleeping on the Humble Hyperlink"

Michael Field

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Chief Equity Market Strategist EMEA at Morningstar

Field analyzed tech companies' shift to public markets, noting Anthropic and Alphabet's capital raises for AI competition.

Michael Liedtke

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Author of "This Gmail Update Is Bigger Than It Looks"

Announced National AI Safety & Privacy Standard for schools with Microsoft and AFT.

Co-founder of nonprofit tracking identical language across state chatbot bills and Google's lobbying involvement.

Introduced Drew Breunig to Stewart Brand's Pace Layers framework.

Helped originate the economic scenarios project.

Brother of Chonthirat who transported her 300 miles to the temple for cremation after being told she had died by local officials.

Provided visual design and art direction for the scenario explorer.

Confirmed Wayfair's participation in OpenAI's Sponsored Agent pilot to explore conversational commerce with branded AI agents.

Philosopher and educator whose 1940 book 'How to Read a Book' provided philosophical framework for understanding deeper reading.

Nacho Mascort

Other

Head of AI (Marketing Automation)

Attended Search Central Live Deep Dive Europe 2026 and detailed Google's quality attributes and core update recovery mechanisms.

Manages Watson implementation in Thailand and described how local customization helps hospitals without oncology specialists.

Stated OpenAI tools support national security work while refusing mass surveillance and autonomous weapons use.

Nate Sanford

Other

journalist at Cascade PBS and KNKX

Author of "Seattle Among First U.S. Cities to Appoint a Chief AI Officer"

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering discussing China's dominance in open-source AI models at the 2025 OpenAtom Developers Conference.

Nicholas Arcolano

Other

Chief Scientist at Jellyfish

Chief scientist at Jellyfish who discussed AI tool adoption and spending trends among software developers.

Analyzed SpaceX's Starlink revenue and subscriber growth as the company's profitable business line funding AI expansion.

47-year-old patient with hypotony who participated in the study and described restoration of vision enabling near-normal activities.

Missing hiker whose body was found using AI-powered drone technology after 10 months in the Italian Alps

Co-author of guide on governing AI agents at scale in enterprises.

AI advisor demonstrating methods for building portable AI workflows across multiple platforms using skills and external storage.

Provided visual design and art direction for the scenario explorer.

AI product lead at Jellyfish who discussed Anthropic's competitive position and adoption of Claude Code.

First human recipient of Neuralink's Telepathy brain implant in the PRIME clinical trial.

Nouriel Roubini

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Economist and strategist

Top economist predicted 2008 financial crash; discusses AI's economic potential and need for universal basic income as AI displaces workers.

Discussed General Intuition's $320M Series A as landmark funding for physical AI and manufacturing robotics applications.

Analyst discussing Trump-Xi relationship dynamics and China's strategic advantages in rare earth minerals, electric vehicle technology and other AI-critical areas.

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

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

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

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

Paul Couvert

Other

AI and Tech Educator at Blueshell AI

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

Paul Price

Other

Founder at CodeWall

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

Peter Berezin

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Chief Economist at BCA Research

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

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

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

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

Phil Taylor

Other

Author of "The Pharma Rulebook of AI"

Author of "University Adds AI Competency Requirement for Students"

Pia Lauritzen

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Philosopher at Akademisk Forlag

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

Pliny the Liberator

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AI Jailbreaker/Researcher

Internet's most prolific AI jailbreaker; runs CL4R1T4S project collecting leaked system prompts from major AI models; extracted Grok 4.20 information.

Economist warning that AI landscape will yield uneven outcomes with some firms emerging as profitable while others become obsolete.

Rachael Sawyer

Other

Generalist Rater at GlobalLogic

Technical writer and Google AI rater who discovered distressing content moderation tasks and loosened safety guardrails over time.

Rachel Power

Other

Chief Executive at The Patients Association

Said trust in AI scribe technology depends on good communication and genuine partnership with patients, currently missing.

Presented a rule for catching AI errors at Google Search Central Live: no source, no number.

Cofounded Chinko Nature Reserve and used exe.dev's AI agent to build Five Megapixel Conservation app and process 40TB of LIDAR data with AI agents.

Described soul-crushing experience of content moderation work and concerns about lasting psychological scarring.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Discovered that dozens of students likely used AI to cheat on a take-home midterm, achieving suspiciously perfect 96% average, then switched final to in-person testing.

Late actor and comedian whose likeness is being used in AI-generated deepfake videos without consent from his family.

Rocky Scopelliti

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Professor

Professor Rocky Scopelliti, author of 'Perceptive Machines', discusses AI's future as a governance problem rather than a labour problem and introduces the 'participation age' of AI.

Provided assistance on local AI implementation.

Team member credited for bringing Adobe-Claude experience to life.

Russ Grote

Other

Spokesperson at KPMG

Spoke to Business Insider about KPMG's AI usage dashboard and the firm's AI adoption strategy.

Posted about FLUX 3 Video release with native audio and 1080p output capabilities.

One half of a couple who discovered they appeared in each other's childhood home videos from 1988 at Sesame Place.

Identified that Google People Also Ask answers are now 100% AI-generated as of August 2026, based on Allintitle dataset analysis.

Quoted comparing potential AI capex bubble to the fiber buildout during dotcom boom

Sam Freedman

Other

Senior Fellow at Institute for Government

In a Substack post, Freedman noted that governments worldwide are experiencing unusual surges in complaints and requests since ChatGPT adoption, partly because the public is using AI to generate these submissions.

Sami Kizilbash

Other

Author at Google

Google representative describing the Google DeepMind Accelerator program supporting 16 green AI projects across Asia-Pacific.

Noted that when a chip supplier guarantees a customer's lease, it becomes a sponsor-tenant relationship rather than vendor-customer.

Santi Ruiz

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Editorial at Anthropic

Wrote the explainer piece on economic scenarios for transformative AI.

Sarah Foster

Other

U.S. Economy Reporter And Analyst at Bankrate

Sarah Foster, Bankrate analyst, commented that fraudsters are getting more sophisticated thanks to AI and reaching more people than ever.

Team member involved in Adobe-Claude integration project.

Sarthak Sharma

Other

Co-host, No Priors at No Priors

Sarthak Sharma (@saranormous) co-hosted the Satya Crossover Pod episode discussing Microsoft's AI strategy.

Co-author of guide on governing AI agents at scale in enterprises.

Sean Baribeau

Other

Adobe

Team member credited for Adobe-Claude collaboration.

Outgoing CEO of Tech Coalition praising Meta's abuse content reporting efforts to researchers.

Quoted on Meta's data center financing model as template for AI infrastructure investment.

Co-founder with Omer Nevo of NGOs focused on Effective Altruism; received funding alongside Dan Lahav for educational course.

14-year-old whose death by suicide prompted lawsuit against Character.AI after allegedly developing emotional attachment to AI character

Co-author of guide on governing AI agents at scale in enterprises.

Analyzed ChatGPT ads as a promising but unproven platform and discussed ROI challenges, noting the potential of agent-to-agent commerce.

Author of "Tracks vs. Trains: Why the Real Artificial Intelligence Boom Hasn't Started Yet"

Developed a digital camouflage shirt with blurry green and pink patterns that fools AI-powered object-detection surveillance cameras.

Spencer Low

Other

Google

Google representative describing the Google DeepMind Accelerator program supporting 16 green AI projects across Asia-Pacific.

Warned about risks of humans extending emotional responses to AI by treating them as human-like.

Acknowledged for work on Adobe and Claude integration for creative workflows.

Said cheating in interviews could result in candidates getting jobs they were ill-suited for; noted 92% of employers suspecting or confirming errant behaviour.

Former head of communications at OpenAI and Apple, serves as advisor to Zero Shot venture fund.

Steve Wozniak

Other

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

Quoted on economic history regarding the sudden increase in per capita income growth starting a couple hundred years ago.

Pinker was challenged by Scott Alexander regarding his position on AI risk, which Aaronson described as needing a more rigorous epistemology.

Calls for parliament to make unlabeled AI-generated content a criminal offense

Susie Kelleher co-authored an article on leadership practices for turning AI ambition into enterprise value.

Team member credited for Adobe-Claude integration work.

Japanese professional table tennis player who competed against Sony AI's Ace robot in official ITTF-regulated matches in Tokyo.

Kenjiro Tsuda's lawyer who noted that the court ruling made both sides look victorious and that the case achieved its goal with the account deleted.

President of IFR commenting on US robotics industry growth and the importance of national robotics strategy.

Used Garfield AI law firm to recover £7,000 unpaid debt for £400 in legal fees, winning an English court case believed to be the first trial victory involving an AI lawyer.

Commented on the sophistication of scam operations and how legitimate businesses and cybercriminals both leverage AI for efficiency.

Pioneer of hypermedia and user-controlled links and trails through information, influencing the author's vision for web browsing.

Deputy program manager for VENOM and AIR programs; provides vital program continuity and technical leadership.

Theodora Chu

Other

Building product at Stripe at Stripe

Listed as article author

IBM chairman quoted with 1943 prediction of limited computer market demand, used as analogy for AI era.

Noted that job losses and job creation are not matching, with displaced workers from one sector unlikely to fill positions in different industries.

Tim Fist

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Analyst

Analyst discussing what the frontier lab letter does not specify regarding intervention mechanisms.

Provided assistance on AI security.

Tom Nunan

Other

Former Studio and Network Executive

Said Google is enlisting smart Hollywood people to understand inevitable AI-entertainment reliance without terrifying people.

Open-source maintainer who praised FrontierCode benchmark for grading like a tech lead rather than a CI system.

Tomicah Tillemann

Other

Director, Pro-Human AI coalition at Pro-Human AI coalition

Questioned at The Curve whether democracy technology is ready for coming AI governance challenges.

Texas-based interventional radiologist arguing AI cannot replicate humanity involved in radiology work.

Expert discussing challenges universities face adjudicating large-scale AI cheating cases and need for institutional support.

Expressed skepticism about Meta AI APIs for real-time performance analysis

Tugce Erten

Other

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Co-author of a16z survey and analysis of enterprise AI adoption and model selection strategies.

Tyler Brown

Other

Conference Attendee

Posted on X about autonomy without structure creating slop, advocating re-visiting skills with new models.

Warned that the AI boom presents a great opportunity for fraud, drawing parallels to the Theranos scandal and emphasizing difficulty of due diligence on AI companies.

Executive search firm leader who noted that AI job replacement is welcomed by investors while difficult for workers.

Pioneer of hypermedia and information management concepts that influenced the author's thinking about web browsers and information interaction.

First person in the U.S. to receive CRISPR treatment for sickle cell anemia in 2019

Author arguing AGI is an engineering problem requiring systems orchestration rather than just model scaling.