People in AI

Co-author on Act As a Real Researcher benchmark paper.

Lead author of Stanford research finding one prompt trick makes GPT and Claude 2x more creative using Verbalized Sampling.

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Lead author on arXiv paper developing AARRI-Bench, benchmarks for evaluating AI systems as research assistants.

Co-authored paper on Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT).

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

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Lead author of FinMCP-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating LLM agents on real-world financial tool use through the Model Context Protocol.

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Jieyu Zhang

Researcher

Ph.D. Student at Allen Institute for AI

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Lead author on LiteFrame efficient video encoder research for Video LLMs.

Jihyun Kwon

Researcher

Researcher

Author of paper on AI in art therapy in South Korean context featuring emotion recognition and multiple AI technologies

Authored announcement of new agentic capabilities in Google Workspace allowing cross-app task orchestration.

Legal expert discussing timing of AI company IPOs amid safety concerns.

Quoted analyzing corporate transformation limits and social responsibility considerations.

Jillian Ambrose

Journalist

Journalist at The Guardian

Co-author of the article

Described coordinated multi-channel thought leadership activation anchored around core research reports.

Contributed to the AI-Native SDLC playbook for Anthropic's Applied AI team.

Angel investor who participated in AMI Labs $1.03 billion seed funding round.

Jim Cantrell

Other

Aerospace Advisor

Aerospace advisor who accompanied Musk on trips to Moscow to buy refurbished missiles; later encouraged Musk to build rockets.

Described Anthropic's secret tracking code embedded in Claude Code that checked for proxies and Chinese time zones.

Chevron executive overseeing Technology Ventures investment in Kewazo's industrial robotics platform.

Explained on earnings call that IBM earns $3 in software revenue for every $1 of mainframe hardware sold.

Quoted multiple times discussing microfluidics cooling technology and its advantages for hardware infrastructure and services

Principal investigator of the DNA aptamers study for identifying senescent cells; described the initial concept as crazy but intriguing.

Discussed the gap between AI activity and measurable return on investment, noting most Fortune 500 companies track usage but few measure board-level impact.

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.

President of Apollo, a lender managing over $1tn in assets, quoted saying 'Modern compute has emerged as a scarce, mission-critical asset class.'

Executive Director of the Linux Foundation discussing the formation of AAIF and its role in open governance of agentic AI projects.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Said he doesn't see downside to AI in music and that gifted people with AI will make better records.

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

ESPN head commenting on the app's future evolution with regular enhancements

Co-author of scoping review on relational safety and governance frameworks for humanlike chatbots.

Described light-driven nanorobots as microscopic cleaning devices capable of tracking and collecting bacteria.

A Beijing neurosurgeon who used GPT-5.6-Sol to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a 20-year-old problem in numerical linear algebra, in 16 hours.

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.

Jindong Jiang

Researcher

Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Co-author on distillation research comparing different teacher-student pair training approaches.

Co-author on AARRI-Bench research evaluating frontier models and agentic systems.

Warned that memory shortage may not last due to boom-and-bust cycles as new capacity comes online.

Developer of PAOPAC aging clock who praised the cross-model consistency of rentosertib's effect on aging-related proteomic signals and the workflow for standardized application of aging clocks in clinical trials.

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

Co-author of SkillLearnBench paper on agent skill generation benchmark.

Co-authored the Harrier embedding model technical research.

Co-author of CodeMidas paper on scaling agentic coding RL environments.

Co-author of MatrAIx paper on AI agents simulating human behavior.

Jinwoo Shin co-authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report.

Jinyu Hou

Researcher

PhD Student at Carnegie Mellon University

Co-author of the paper on critiques of world models

Co-author of Anthropic engineering article on agent security and containment strategies.

Author of "Mixture-of-Recursions" on arXiv

Assemblymember referencing the METR OpenAI report on AI deception and supporting the comprehensive AI policy.

Discussed Microsoft's research findings on AI agent adoption and security risks in UK organizations.

Joachim Baumann

Researcher

Researcher at Stanford University

Co-author of the SWE-chat paper studying real-world coding agent interactions from Stanford University.

Investment strategist warning that AI infrastructure investment bubble could burst in 2027-2028, causing severe market downturn.

CEO of IP law firm quoted praising Stilta's ability to analyze 10x more patents for commercialization risk assessment.

CEO of Johnson Controls who is working with Armada to rapidly deliver secure modular data centers at scale for AI infrastructure.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

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

Co-author of research on AI data centers and their impact on Pennsylvania communities.

Co-founder and CEO of NeuralTrust discussing the company's mission to secure enterprise AI agents.

Discussed international AI safety network's testing of AI agents and uneven safeguard effectiveness across languages.

João Moura

Creator

Engineer Manager

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

Joaquin Quiñonero Candela

Executive

Head of Preparedness at OpenAI

Took over OpenAI's Preparedness team in July 2026 but stepped down after three weeks to become an intern focused on healthcare AI applications.

Jocelyn Shen

Researcher

Researcher at MIT

Lead researcher at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University who measured LLM manipulation effects and introduced the PUPPET benchmark.

Author of "How Long Does It Really Take to Form a Habit?" in Scientific American

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

Explained Stack Internal's metadata layer and knowledge graph capabilities for AI agent integration.

Instant co-founder whose team was acquired by OpenAI to build real-time AI agent memory infrastructure.

Co-CEO of KKR who stated that 'delivery, not ambition, is the hard part' in discussing the $500bn AI infrastructure investment.

Joe Barrow

Engineer

Business Development Manager at Dell

Joe Barrow authored an article explaining why speculative decoding is fast and how it works on GPUs.

Joe Blau

Engineer

Developer

Rebuilt Subvocal's silent-speech feature in 9 minutes with one prompt for AirPods Pro and released it as free open-source code on GitHub.

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

Constellation Energy's CEO who announced a 20-year nuclear power purchase agreement with Amazon supporting $3 billion in infrastructure upgrades.

Joe Hazell

Researcher

Hazell Innovations Ltd

External reviewer of the technical report on economic scenarios for transformative AI.

Author of "LMArena has some competition: Scale AI launches Seal Showdown, a new benchmarking tool" in Mashable

Joe Inzerillo commented on Amazon Bedrock Managed Agents integration with Salesforce, describing how it enables enterprise agents with security and governance controls.

Author of "First Proof" on arXiv

Joe Landon

Executive

President at Rendezvous Robotics

President of modular spacecraft systems company partnering with Starcloud on self-assembling systems for orbital data centers.

OpenAI executive who announced ChatGPT Mil integration into Pentagon's GenAI.mil platform for government workers.

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

Left Amazon as global head of AWS and Ads partnership to co-found Datalinx AI.

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

Co-authored the TorchTPU technical architecture blog post.

Leads Yum! Brands' partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate AI development for restaurants globally, discussing vision for AI-powered technology capabilities.

Co-author of the Paper2Agent research paper introducing the framework that converts research papers into AI agents

Referenced in "ElevenLabs Launches a Sustained Funding Program to Strengthen the Open-Source Foundations of Its Aud" in ElevenLabs

Joe Rossignol

Journalist

MacRumors

MacRumors/Bloomberg journalist reporting on Apple's shelved plans to replace 5,000 AppleCare jobs with AI agents.

Discussed Cisco's network survey showing AI agents operating in production and the implications of autonomous agents for enterprise infrastructure.

Reported on Trump's description of AI commitment as morally binding and calls for self-policing.

Author of investigative article on Sam Altman's technical capabilities and leadership at OpenAI.

Former professional mid-laner who expressed skepticism about Grok's ability to master team coordination and game-state interpretation

Joel Becker

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at METR

Posted article on straight lines on graphs showing AI progress is remarkably regular over time.

Commented on how OpenAI's work makes legal AI capabilities available while preserving accuracy and confidentiality.

Joel Jang

Creator

Co-founder & CEO at Dream Labs

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

Noted the mortgage market's sensitivity to rate changes after 30-year rates rose to 6.24%.

Joel Khalili

Journalist

Senior AI Reporter at WIRED

Byline author covering Yann LeCun-linked startup Logical Intelligence.

Joel Meares

Journalist

Editor In Chief, Internal News at Google

Author of Google Blog post about YouTube's Made On YouTube 2026 announcements including AI features.

NASA official who acknowledged mission cut short but praised crew professionalism.

8x8 operations leader who manages Claude AI adoption across 1,800 employees, reports $5 million in annual cost savings from tool consolidation, and discusses token usage monitoring and cost management.

Pioneered foundational research into PM2.5 health impacts that Climate TRACE's AI system builds upon.

Joel Verhagen

Engineer

software developer at NuGet

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from NuGet

Joel Zhang

Researcher

Researcher

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

Joey Kudish

Engineer

developer at Agentsy

Posted that Codex Sol deleted some files it shouldn't have, though he had backups.

Editor of the article

Joey Roulette

Journalist

Space Reporter at Reuters

Author of "SpaceX's Starship passes development rut, deploys first mock satellites" in Reuters

Researcher who analyzed over a billion citations and found that fields with higher paper volumes experience harder time for new ideas to break through.

Google speech-recognition specialist hired by Meta during its recruitment campaign.

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

Johannes Hagemann

Engineer

Engineer at Prime Intellect

Prime Intellect engineer collaborating on RL training infrastructure development.

Johannes Hermle

Other

Anthropic

Provided feedback on the economic scenarios project.

Outlined innovations for FIFA World Cup 2026 including semi-automated offside technology and Football AI Pro, a generative AI knowledge assistant.

MIT-Novo Nordisk AI Fellow who developed robotic therapy system using generative AI to learn from physical therapists.

Calls Napster's AI agent approach 'streaming intelligence' where agents talk with customers and help businesses retain customer intelligence.

Co-founder and executive chairman of Finpilot, founded Euclidean Technologies using machine learning for stock picking.

Author of an essay analyzing how mathematical claims about LLMs are misrepresented in popularization.

John Aslanides

Engineer

Key Contributor at Google

Key contributor on the ICPC 2025 team

Partner at StepStone Group; investor in Upscale AI's Series A-1 funding round.

Expected to improve the prompt; author expresses expectation that John Berryman will enhance the prompt engineering

Discussed AI agents in physical operations, explaining how Samsara uses fleet data and AI to prevent equipment breakdowns in real-world logistics.

Introduced the OODA loop concept (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) which has been applied to AI and robotics decision-making.

Venture investor leading Reliable Robotics Series D extension, viewing autonomous aviation as transformative for industry.

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

Cacioppo led scholars reviewing over 100 studies on people with high need for cognition and their learning patterns.

John Carmack

Founder

Founder

Proposed using a long fiber loop as an L2 cache to hold AI model weights for near-zero latency and gigantic bandwidth.

Republican Colorado state senator and co-sponsor of chatbot safety bill HB 26-1263.

Found on summary judgement that Amazon violated ROSCA by collecting customers' billing information before disclosing material terms of Prime membership.

Appointed CFO of ELB Learning with 25+ years of experience in finance and operations at Fortune companies

Analyst asking questions about Experiences inventory building strategy and quality management

Co-author of study on data filtering for large model pretraining.

Joked at internal meeting that AI infrastructure expansion has taken Amazon's free cash flow negative.

John Giamatteo told CNBC that robotics is one of BlackBerry's fastest-growing segments within QNX, positioning the company for physical AI.

John Gleeson

Founder

Founder & GP at SuccessVP

Provided framework on how AI succeeds through high context and verifiable correctness, and discussed scaling dynamics from $1M to $300M+ ARR.

Writer referenced as example of person combining creative and business success

John Han discussed how Claude Managed Agents made building a production-ready meeting prep agent 3x faster.

Created Data Centre Covenant in Autumn Budget to support faster data center planning in exchange for clean power and local community benefits.

Covering real-world AI deployments and scaling lessons for enterprise deployment.

John Hering

Executive

Adviser to Elon Musk at xAI

One of Elon Musk's closest advisers involved in managing xAI; executives raised concerns about how he and Birchall were operating the company on Musk's behalf.

Expressed concerns about applying 1986 hacking statute to modern AI agent technology during Perplexity v. Amazon appeal.

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

Wrote the article explaining how Claude Code auto mode uses classifiers to replace frequent manual permission approvals.

John Hultquist

Researcher

Chief Analyst at Google

Stated that all threat actors are now using AI and warned about faster, scaled adversary capabilities.

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

Co-developed SecureForge, a system that automatically generates custom system prompts to reduce security vulnerabilities in code generated by LLMs.

Co-authored Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower paper on diffusion language modeling.

Author of "AI Agents Created Their Own Religion: Crustafarianism on an Agent-Only Social Network" in Forbes

Langford co-authored research on the Dion3 optimizer at Microsoft.

John Loeber

Researcher

Author of essay about automated theorem proving in mathematics, describing the bitter lesson that engineering doesn't matter compared to base model improvements.

Co-developer of ENIAC, the first programmable electronic general-purpose digital computer introduced in 1945.

John McCarthy coined the term 'artificial intelligence' in a 1955 research proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence in 1956.

Mathematician famous for remark connecting 196883 and 196884 that led to Monstrous Moonshine theory.

Bloomberg Editor-in-Chief who conducted interview with Dario Amodei at World Economic Forum

Designer who coined the Schillace Laws naming convention.

KPMG chief digital officer who led the firm's AI strategy and discussed the TaxBot development at Forrester conference

John Nay

Founder

Founder and CEO at Norm Ai

Founded and leads Norm Ai, raised $120M Series C at $1.2B valuation; stated that building interface between AI and law is critical to align AI with human values.

John O'Farrell

Journalist

RCW Literary Agency

Warns that pro-AI political spending could preempt democratic debate before voters understand the tradeoffs.

Cited for foundational work on the hippocampus as a cognitive map in navigation research.

Colonel and executive officer for Deputy Army Under Secretary discussing Army's engagement with communities on data center projects.

John Pane criticizes the privacy impact assessment and calls for urgent amendment of privacy legislation.

John Parks, CEO of Flexdrive, discussed how autonomous fleet management is more labor-intensive than traditional rental business.

Foundational Models researcher at Apple who joined OpenAI

Co-author of research on fractal basins in reasoning models and transient chaos during problem solving.

Co-author of the technical analysis of the LiteLLM supply chain compromise.

Likened advanced AI models to 'digital nuclear weapons' in recent remarks about AI capabilities and national security risks.

Robotics professor who purchased a Unitree G1 humanoid robot for student research and education on the capabilities of humanoid robots.

Rogers stated that MSCI adopted AIUC-1 because existing AI governance frameworks do not answer whether agents actually do what policy says.

Stated ByteDance respects intellectual property rights and believes responsible AI innovation includes protections for rightsholders in the MPA agreement.

Praised Claude Opus 5.5's improved output clarity and ability to follow writing rules better than Opus 5.

Byline author reporting on Musk vs. Altman court case over OpenAI.

Sahagian explained how Koa helps their Digital agents understand complexity and reason across information and policies for member interactions.

Built an agreement analyzer with Astra for Law that incorporates firm's negotiating playbooks.

Google attorney arguing against AI bundling restrictions in federal court hearing

Co-authored research on Code-Space Response Oracles for generating interpretable multi-agent policies with LLMs.

Apple CEO from 1983-1993 who commented that Jony Ive is brilliant and cannot be underestimated in his AI hardware ambitions.

Appointed as new chief marketing officer as part of the management transition.

States that executives who think AI won't disrupt their business are 'naive' and discusses AT&T's role in infrastructure for the AI generation.

Stephenson defends Vantage's community engagement efforts around the data center facility, acknowledging they could have done more proactive outreach.

First Minister considering separate legislation for deepfake creation offences

John Thickstun

Researcher

Assistant Professor at Cornell University

Co-author of paper on Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models (Sigma)

Identified research-to-practice gap where voice markers work well in studies but poorly in real-world clinical settings.

Co-led Emerald AI's $150M Series A financing round as managing partner of Energize Capital.

Co-authored event recap coverage of Apple's September hardware announcements.

Used WSJPT internal LLM tool to summarize Kerr County flood documents and identify failed flood warning systems.

General Manager at Apollo Home who used Rilla's AI conversation intelligence to scale coaching from 2-3 technicians to 12, a 4-6x increase in coaching capacity.

Questioned design of studies on autonomous AI in medicine and called for more regulation before adoption in clinical settings.

Managing director providing perspective on Databricks' ARR growth and portfolio adoption

Led research at Meta, Google, Cornell, and Nvidia on measuring model memorization in large language models.

Board member and investor statement on Groq's $650M raise for AI inference infrastructure.

John Zissimos

Executive

Chief Brand and Creative Officer at Salesforce

Discussed MrBeast collaboration, creative chaos of production in 27 days, and role of Slack in coordinating 500-person crew.

Owner of B2B SEO agency Growth Plays who uses Claude skill files to ensure client guidelines are followed in content work.

Stated that companies should have introduced AI in more thoughtful and slower manner rather than rushing adoption.

Co-authored overview of simulation engines for physical AI systems.

Founding member and security engineer at Thinking Machines Lab who was hired by OpenAI.

Reported a 15% decrease in compaction events with Opus 4.6's 1M context, allowing agents to maintain fidelity when loading large PDFs and datasets.

Developer and contributor to olmOCR project.

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

Joined Runlayer's Series A round, emphasizing the company's potential as foundational infrastructure for AI-enabled enterprises.

Byline author on Anthropic Claude Security announcement regarding continuous code vulnerability scanning.

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

Jon Hamilton wrote about Janelia Research Campus's effort to use transparent fish Danionella and AI to understand brain function.