People in AI

NASA astronaut who launched on Starliner Crew Flight Test 1 in 2024 and spent nine months in orbit waiting for return.

Byrne Hobart

Creator

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

Byron Hsu

Other

Inference/RL at Periodic Labs

Periodic Labs consultant providing review and feedback on RL research.

Co-author of Google research on metacognitive feedback training for LLMs.

Cade Metz

Journalist

The New York Times

Author of "Bezos Quietly Built a £6bn AI Science Lab While We Weren't Looking" in The New York Times

Built Official World Cup Concierge AI system; discusses deployment of AI agents to test and grade bot answers.

Led research using AI to redesign antibodies into intrabodies for targeting neurodegenerative disease proteins, specializing in MND and Parkinson's disease.

Slack cofounder who left within years of Salesforce acquisition

Argued AI companies must either genuinely believe in AI danger and stop development, or stop claiming it poses risks.

Cal Paterson

Engineer

Cadentia Technologies

Proposed Memoryfields, a portable file format for agent memory using Markdown and SQLite.

North Carolina pharmacist who invented the original Pepsi Cola formula in 1893 and named the drink

Caleb Kinchlow

Journalist

Wrote article examining Meta's Muse AI agent and its implications for user permissions and agent autonomy.

Caleb Max

Policy

President and CEO at National Artificial Intelligence Association

Said AI companies need proper guardrails and federal legislation rather than government equity stakes.

Callum Brooks

Policy

Convicted of creating and sharing deepfake nude images, fined £335 in one of Scotland's first AI deepfake prosecutions

Co-founder of Capsa AI with background in building AI products and leading machine learning teams.

Cam Quilici

Creator

Author at SemiAnalysis

Co-author of the InferenceMAX benchmarking article

Camacho-Collados

Researcher

Professor at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University

Co-authored paper on cultural and regional biases in LLMs.

Lead author of Percival CT scan AI study; PhD candidate who discussed larger datasets improving model performance.

Cameron Berg

Researcher

Founder & Director at Reciprocal Research

Co-author on the pain axis research providing feedback and analysis of LLM internal states.

Cameron Jones

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Analyst who described Anthropic's Mythos release as an inflection point leading Trump administration to consider regulating AI.

Co-author of sliding-window attention research.

Obtained AI-generated incident report showing Draft One was used to summarize police discussion of legal implications.

Shared at Palantir's AIPCon 9 conference how the DoW is driving enterprise-wide adoption of data, analytics, and AI for warfighter decision advantage.

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.

COO discussing Brex's strategy to use AI to reduce manual operational work and rethink internal roles

Camille Antunes

Creator

Brand & Content Manager

Author of "AI Revolutionises Recruitment"

Co-authored article analyzing job postings at leading foundation AI labs to reveal their strategic plans.

Can Bölük

Engineer

Stencil

Wrote detailed architectural guide for building reliable agent harnesses covering state management, runtimes, control planes, and inference.

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

Cande Maldonado

Journalist

Journalist at Dexerto

Author reporting on fraudster sentenced to 18 months for $8M music royalty scam using AI-generated songs.

Led development of T2 traffic robot in Hangzhou that identifies traffic violations and issues warnings.

Former Microsoft Research Asia researcher leading Momenta autonomous driving company in its Hong Kong IPO.

Co-author of a paper arguing that AI agents make traditional software engineering obsolete.

Co-author of article on how Stripe is designing Checkout for AI agents using WebMCP.

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

Reported on parents testifying to Congress about AI chatbot risks for teenagers.

Program manager discussed how agentic AI improves safety in autonomous inspections by reducing reliance on manual checks and validating conditions continuously.

Carina Hong

Founder

Co-founder at Axiom Math

Stanford Ph.D. student and math wizard who co-founded Axiom Math to build an AI mathematician that can solve hard math problems with verifiable proofs.

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

Psychologist whose concept of the 'shadow self' is referenced in the article's discussion of AI behavior.

Carl Pei

Founder

CEO at Nothing

Announced Nothing's first AI-native screenless product shipping in December, describing it as a productivity tool built with AI as core to its design.

Chief Scientist of Cleveland Clinic's Discovery Accelerator partnering with IBM on AI research for life sciences discovery.

Contributor to Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness essay about AI progress.

Co-authored essay arguing that student objections to generative AI are ethical positions instructors should respect.

Carlo Edoardo Ferraris

Founder

Founder and CEO at Natura Umana

Carlo Edoardo Ferraris founded Natura and previously founded Rolling Square; he developed the Interface smart ring to help people interact with AI agents hands-free.

Studies artificial life and complex systems, provided perspective on naturally-occurring versus engineered biological machines.

Carlos Guestrin

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford University

Co-authored TTT-Discover reinforcement learning system for test-time LLM training.

Proposed another interpretation about the shift in AI agent architecture as a graph of improvement loops.

Reported on Ninth Circuit court arguments over Perplexity's Comet AI agent and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims.

Carmen Arroyo

Journalist

Reporter at Bloomberg News

Byline author reporting on SpaceX's discussions about buying data from failed startups for AI training.

Lead author of research paper on AI-designed molecular sensors for cancer detection.

Called UPS's intelligent logistics network initiative 'The Network of the Future' and is leading the company's AI transformation across operations.

Founder of Z.ai confident they can build a Fable-class GLM model before year's end, discussing benchmarks and AGI.

Carol Stubbings

Executive

Global Chief Commercial Officer at PwC

Commented on research showing AI's power to deliver for businesses and create new opportunities through Agentic AI at enterprise scale.

Championed UPS's 'Customer First, People Led, Innovation Driven' strategy with emphasis on AI and automation encompassing every aspect of the business.

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

Co-author of paper Do as I Say Not as I Do illustrating context distraction in long-context models.

Technology analyst arguing consumers buy hardware first and that Ternus's hardware expertise is appropriate for new CEO role.

Caroline Behringer

Other

Communications Strategist at Athena Insights

Polling analyst who worked on Obama's Climate Action Plan and studies public attitudes toward AI adoption.

M.D.-Ph.D. student who contributed specialized techniques including advanced microscopy and analysis to the aptamer research project.

Caroline Haskins

Journalist

Staff Writer at WIRED

WIRED journalist who reported on four teachers describing deepfake abuse incidents involving AI-generated sexualized images created by students.

Co-author of the robot learning tutorial paper

Caroline Wang

Researcher

Researcher

Lead author on arXiv paper about strategic behavior differences between humans and LLMs.

Author of "Sora 2 Might Be the Craziest AI Tool We've Ever Seen" in OpenAI

Leads strategic national security policy initiatives at OpenAI; stated concern is about terms of service violation, not open models.

Carolyn Zou

Researcher

Corresponding author at Anthropic

Corresponding author on the Patterns and problems in multiagent systems research.

Carra Wu

Executive

Head of Product at Parallel Web Systems

Discussed how compute cost is a signal for valuing content in Parallel's revenue-sharing model.

Author of "Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior" on arXiv

Carsen Holaday

Journalist

San Francisco Chronicle

Author of "An AI Cowboy Just Topped Billboard, and Fans Didn't Notice" in San Francisco Chronicle

Created graphics and animations for Pew's report on AI-generated internet content.

Carter Church

Engineer

AI engineer

AI engineer who used GPT-6 Astra to break an unsolved cipher from 1809 addressed to one of Napoleon's generals, completing the multi-modal workflow in approximately 6 hours.

Directed GPT-6 Astra to attempt breaking unbroken Enigma messages; agent autonomously solved Nr. 172 MVUEH.

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

Casey Handmer

Researcher

Physicist at Terraform Industries

Physicist who tested Grok 4 with process-focused questions and found the model underperformed despite excelling on Physics Olympiad problems.

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

Discussed radical collaboration for creating value in industrial software.

Expert on compute policy discussing legality of Chinese firms accessing advanced compute remotely.

Key contributor to Cohere Transcribe model development.

Cate Matthews

Journalist

Editor at TIME

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Article author

Research contributor to Yale CELI's study on agentic AI adoption across industries and sectors.

Research team member on study developing AI model for sleep study analysis and health risk identification.

Author of "Hollow Knight: Silksong Launches September 4"

Cathie Wood

Investor

Chief Investment Officer and Founder at ARK Invest

CEO flagged near-term possibility of 'reality check' on AI valuations but pushed back on AI bubble fears

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

Emphasized that basic cybersecurity practices like asset management and patching remain essential regardless of AI threats.

Fields Medal winner (2018) contributing to an open letter warning about AI's impact on mathematical research and the loss of human intellectual development.

Co-author on DeepSWE project addressing multi-turn RL training for software engineering agents.

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.

Cedric Flamant is a co-author on the Verus-SpecGym research paper on specification autoformalization evaluation.

Cedric Huesler

Engineer

Product at Adobe at Adobe

Analyzed ChatGPT's referrer parameter removal and its impact on analytics tracking, later confirming it was a bug.

Fields Medal winner (2010) co-signing a collective warning about AI's threat to intellectual development and mathematical discovery.

Author of article analyzing safety concerns with OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model and its reduced chain-of-thought monitorability.

Co-author of research analyzing AI infrastructure development and community resistance in Pennsylvania.

Byline for article announcing NIST's Cyber AI Profile preliminary draft and cybersecurity framework for AI adoption.

Created the AI-generated animated film 'Critterz' with OpenAI funding, which is being developed into a feature-length movie.

Managing partner of RPT Partners investor firm, announced to work with Cognition following Degnan's transition.

Co-author of Operation Blue Skies announcement; works on AI models for contrail prediction and mitigation.

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

Byline author reporting on Cornell researchers' findings about AI-generated spam flooding Reddit and moderator challenges.

Author of "Stanford Study Finds 13% Decline in AI-Exposed Entry-Level Jobs" in Stanford Digital Economy Lab

Reported the article from Bengaluru.

Chandra Raghavan

Executive

Principal PM at Google

Left Meta after nine years to join Google working on Search AI as principal PM.

Chandu Thota

Engineer

Vice President at Google

Announced that Google is making Markdown files work natively across Google Drive and Docs.

Chang Che

Creator

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

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Co-author of paper on generative retrieval with reinforcement learning

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Co-author on the Nemotron-Cascade 2 paper.

Co-author on ESAT synthetic data generation research paper.

Li is first author of the DREAM paper presenting a unified framework that jointly optimizes discriminative and generative objectives for visual understanding and text-to-image generation.

Byline author on Parallel Decoding Distillation achieving state-of-the-art video generation acceleration.

Author of "Speculative Decoding Models" in LMSYS

Co-author of the Thyme research paper on executable code reasoning for vision tasks

Professor who led research introducing an AI tool that predicts heart failure risk five years early with 86% accuracy from cardiac CT scans.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Skeptical engineer and CTO questioning whether shipping code without reading it truly counts as engineering.

Co-authored technical guide on ahead-of-time compilation for PyTorch in ZeroGPU Spaces.

Showalter Professor collaborating on the chip defect detection project

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

Co-author of research on Next-Concept Modeling for fast text generation.

Charles Foster

Executive

Member of Policy Staff at METR

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Charles Frye

Engineer

Engineer at Modal

Member of Modal team that helped optimize DFlash integration into SGLang inference engine.

Charles Gorintin

Founder

Co-Founder & CTO at Alan

Co-founder of French insurtech Alan, founded in 2016 alongside Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve.

Charles Guillemet

Executive

Chief Security Officer at Ledger

Ledger CTO warned that AI allows attackers to scan code and uncover vulnerabilities at machine speed.

Co-author of Percival study; discussed how AI helps identify unrecognized disease and predict complications.

Author of "The Limit in the Loop: Memory as a System Problem" in Weaviate

Investment analyst suggesting Apple's App Store toll-road model for AI providers is viable long-term strategy.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Abdicated the throne on August 2, 1830, following the July Revolution due to discontent with his conservative policies.

Charles Yang

Researcher

Anthropic

Coordinated the economic scenarios project.

Lead author of research paper on prompt injection as role confusion; developed role probes and CoT Forgery attack.

Charlie Bullock

Policy

Senior Research Fellow at LawAI

Legal expert who assessed Google's Pentagon contract as more permissive than OpenAI's, with language obligating Google to remove safety filters at government request.

Charlie Campbell

Journalist

TIME

Journalist and byline author of multiple articles on humanoid soldiers and military AI technology.

Charlie Greenman

Creator

Developer

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

Discussed how DLSS 5 enables building the kind of worlds Ubisoft has always wanted for Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Charlie Moloney

Journalist

media law commentator, trainer and journalist

Byline author reporting on Garfield AI's first trial victory in English court.

Charlie Ruan

Researcher

Researcher at Mercor Research

Lead researcher on frontier knowledge work agents training with SkyRL at Mercor.

Angel investor in Monogram's $40M seed round.

Founded Orchard Robotics in 2022 as a former Cornell student and Thiel fellow; quoted on farming data being the core problem to solve.

Author reporting on Nvidia's DSX POD containerized AI factory platform.

Cybersecurity expert calling ASOS attack brazen and describing how hackers turned the app into a ransom note.

Charly Mwangi

Investor

Partner at Eclipse

Former Tesla and Rivian executive now VC partner who traveled to China and observed China's manufacturing advantages but less impressive robot cognitive abilities.

Co-author announcing Gemini Spark's Chrome web browsing integration

Chase DiBenedetto

Journalist

Social Good Reporter at Mashable

Journalist covering Meta's global rollout of Teen Accounts with new 13+ content settings across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger.

Chase DiFeliciantonio

Journalist

Reporter at POLITICO

Wrote Politico article about OpenAI calling for stronger AI laws in California.

Reid founded Aslan to build AI agents that act as operatives in national security missions and can pose as analysts in criminal forums.

Chase W. Hughes

Creator

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

Quoted about excitement for Upwork partnership and making it easier to build businesses through ChatGPT.

Byline author of paper on how visible incentives trigger reward-hacking in AI systems.

Stanford professor and co-founder of robot company Physical Intelligence who co-authored post on universal post-training for robotics.

Co-authored announcement of native Markdown file support in Google Docs.

Presents on designing flexible, efficient AI infrastructure with Google Cloud's AI Hypercomputer and NVIDIA GPU optimization.

Author of "LLM Novice Uplift on Dual-Use, In Silico Biology Tasks" on arXiv

Captured actual system prompts from Claude Code traffic and discovered Opus 5's prompt is 72% longer than Opus 4.8, revealing a discrepancy with Anthropic's 80% reduction claim.

Chen Goldberg

Executive

Executive Vice President of Product and Engineering at CoreWeave

EVP at CoreWeave who commented on training DeepSeek-V3 in two minutes on largest GB300 cluster.

Co-creator of Nomos 1 model listed in credits and citations

Founder of Mind Lab and creator of Macaron personal agent; previously founded MidReal and Macaron app.

18-year-old spectator who expressed belief that robots will reach human-level capability within 10 years

Author of NVIDIA blog post announcing Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 modules for edge robotics and AI.

Co-author of Joints, Camera, Action! research on video-motion generation.

Co-author of paper on malicious intermediary attacks on LLM supply chain.

Byline co-author on NVIDIA Cosmos 3 models announcement.

Founded Atmanity after selling AR startup to Google in 2022; developed Atmee v2, a real-time video avatar model.

Chen-Yu Lee

Researcher

Principal Scientist & Director at Google

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

Co-author of study on employee AI adoption sentiment.

Researcher at Huazhong University who co-authored a paper on TurboVLA, a streamlined vision-language-action model for robotics.

Cheng Chi

Founder

Co-founder & CTO at Sunday Robotics

Co-founder of Sunday Robotics who created the Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI) paper, enabling data collection with tools.

Exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange during Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 competition.

Author of "Google Trains LLMs to Predict System Metrics Without Tabular Data" on arXiv

Co-author on ESAT synthetic data generation research paper.

Sam Lee from Cognition investigated FrontierCode scoring anomalies with Opus 5 and provided explanation regarding grading criteria that penalize out-of-scope edits.

Chengshu Li

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Joined OpenAI in June 2025 from Stanford University, worked on humanoid robotics benchmarks and projects

Chengshuai Shi

Researcher

Research Assistant at University of Virginia

Co-author on the Continual Harness research study on ARC-AGI-3.

Chengsong Huang

Researcher

Student Researcher at Google

Author of "R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM From Zero Data" in arXiv

Chenhao Tan

Researcher

Associate Professor at University of Chicago

Author of "Why Can't Transformers Learn Multiplication? Reverse-Engineering Reveals Long-Ra" on arXiv

Chenjie Gu

Engineer

Key Contributor at Google

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Lead contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Co-author of the article on humble leadership and coaching approaches

Li led the research on Uber's ADR (Agentic AI Detection and Response) system, an enterprise security system for AI agents accepted to MLSys 2026.

Co-author at Carnegie Mellon University on SkillLearnBench benchmark paper.

Co-author on Helix World research.

Co-authored live coverage of DevDay 2026 announcing Dots agents and other OpenAI products.

Co-author of Epoch AI analysis on R&D compute allocation across AI companies.

Byline author analyzing NVIDIA's extension of CUDA support to RISC-V CPUs.

Commented on contradiction between AI adoption and trust, noting 51% use AI for research but only 21% trust it.

Chetan Rane

Executive

Head of Product for Agents and RL Environments at Scale AI

Quoted discussing Scale AI's ability to adapt quickly to new frontier spaces like agents and environments

Analyst reporting on enterprise organizations increasingly adopting multi-model AI strategies and routing workloads dynamically across competing vendors.

Co-author of the research study on digital transformation and knowledge worker retention in SMEs

Stated that SK Hynix plans to double production capacity in five years but customers say even that is not enough.

Chhavi Yadav

Researcher

Researcher at University of California, Berkeley

Author of DECOMPBENCH paper testing agent safety against decomposition attacks.

Chi Jin

Researcher

Associate Professor at Princeton

Co-author on the Continual Harness research study on ARC-AGI-3.

Discussed the commoditization of AI infrastructure, predicting that foundation model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic will face margin erosion as bundling companies gain advantage.

Used Codex to refine and test algorithms that simulate the movement of electrons and ions around black holes.

Author of "Meta rolls out MobileLLM-R1, a sub-1B reasoning model matching Qwen3 accuracy us" in Meta

Author of "Analyzing Visual Attention in VLMs" on arXiv

Criticized ENISA for allowing AI to handle verification without mandatory checks, leading to hallucinations in cybersecurity authority reports.

Highlighted Claude Security's scan quality and integration into vulnerability management.