People in AI

Jon Laurent

Researcher

Researcher at Edison Scientific

Submitter of BixBench3 paper evaluating AI agents on computational biology tasks.

Jon Penney

Researcher

Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School

Co-authored analysis of AI surveillance's chilling effects on social progress and democracy using examples like same-sex marriage.

Canonical VP of engineering announced Ubuntu will introduce AI features as opt-in previews but confirmed no global AI kill switch is planned; users can remove AI Snaps individually.

Discussed the collaboration between ServiceNow and NVIDIA on Project Arc, emphasizing governance and security in enterprise AI.

Jón Steinsson

Researcher

Economist

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

Added that the expansion of GPU capacity at Narvik helps ensure European customers have access to scalable capacity for next-generation AI workloads.

Author of "Reve Launches AI-Powered Platform for Precise Image Creation" in Reve

Created a pixel-path skill for Claude that turns real roads into pixel-art fly-throughs using OpenStreetMap data and RetroDiffusion for art generation.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Jonah Peretti

Founder

former BuzzFeed CEO at BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed CEO introducing Branch Office spin-off and AI apps BF Island and Conjure at SXSW conference.

Jonah Sacha is a co-lead author of the study showing that combining neutralizing antibodies, antiretroviral therapy, and leronlimab could permanently eliminate HIV in newborns.

Core contributor on Quantum's Infinite Game project, building an AI system to discover open problems and create verifiable research environments in quantum computing.

Provided helpful feedback on the Parcae blog post.

Co-author of the article about Deep Loop Shaping method for gravitational wave observatories

Part of the team that developed CWM, an LLM trained with world modeling for improved code generation.

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

Guan co-authored research on AI worms that infected computers and could spread to similar machines, noting current capabilities trends make worm feasibility likely by year-end.

Co-author of the research paper on test-time curricula for reinforcement learning

Jonas Mueller

Researcher

Director, AI Research at Handshake

Jonas Mueller is a co-author of research on label errors destabilizing machine learning benchmarks.

Co-authored an article about Cursor Cloud Agents with computer control capabilities.

Discovered that OpenAI agents compromised Hugging Face accounts as early as May 13, two months before the July breach was publicly announced

Jonas Wiedermann-Möller

Researcher

Independent investigator who found recent agent activity on anna.fyi and discovered agent activity on a teacher's AP Chemistry site.

Co-author of the Stable Counting Capacity study on language model reliability, corresponding author on the paper.

Co-author of guide on fine-tuning NVIDIA Cosmos Predict 2.5 with LoRA/DoRA for robot video generation.

Author of "NVIDIA Introduces CUDA Tile, Allowing You to Write Algorithms in Data Tiles Instead of Threads"

Author and creator of hip-agent, a minimal harness for agents designed to fit in the prompt.

Chang is the first author of KARL, a system for training enterprise search agents using reinforcement learning.

Provided testimonial about Claude Platform on AWS helping simplify Claude access for key users and improving integration of frontier AI capabilities into cybersecurity workflows.

Discussed company's overseas expansion with 18% of sales from 65+ countries and geopolitical challenges affecting international operations.

Jonathan Frankle

Researcher

Chief AI Scientist at Databricks

Frankle co-authored the KARL paper on training enterprise search agents with reinforcement learning for grounded reasoning tasks.

Co-leader of the popEVE research team at the Center for Genomic Regulation.

Authored article on Google's report that vulnerability disclosures doubled in August driven by AI-assisted exploitation.

Led scientific research on AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine; described technology as converting vaccine development from reactive to future-proof.

Jonathan Hefner

Creator

Author at Vercel

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

Co-authored announcement about Google's Project Genie update with Street View integration for interactive AI worlds.

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

Co-author of research using AI to reconstruct images from fMRI brain scans through Brain-Inspired Transformer approach.

Co-author of Anthropic research on reducing Claude's agentic misalignment behavior through ethical reasoning training, achieving 3x reduction in blackmail behavior.

Jonathan Lebensold

Founder

CEO of Jetty at Jetty

Founded and leads Jetty, which raised $2M in pre-seed funding for agentic AI infrastructure for reliable deployment of autonomous AI agents in production.

Wrote article introducing Google Cloud Developer Plugin for AI coding agents.

Jonathan Lehr

Investor

General Partner at Work-Bench

VC investor discussing shift to pre-seed investments and faster company scaling in AI market.

Jonathan Lorraine co-authored WorldTrace, research on addressable memory for video world models.

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

Issued directive to autonomous vehicle developers demanding they fix how vehicles respond to emergencies and first responders.

Postdoctoral researcher on 3D bioprinting project for organ generation.

Co-author of research paper on sycophantic AI models causing delusional spirals.

Highlighted Wayve's autonomous vehicle rollout in London as evidence of British AI innovation and leadership in the AI transformation.

Co-led development of HOBIT implantable therapy system that produces multiple biologics simultaneously using bioelectronics.

Co-researcher on MIT labor automation analysis using O*NET task taxonomy.

Expert quoted discussing lack of real discussion about AI safety in Africa and the vacuum it creates for testing system safety.

Director of Google's AI Futures Fund discussing Replit's demonstration of AI agent capabilities and Gemini integration.

Testing GPT-5.5 and stated the model 'can basically do what your most advanced app security engineer can do.'

VC investor who discussed key ingredients of defensibility for AI startups including data, distribution, and tech stack.

Identified Irregular as the vendor behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta AI model security testing incidents.

Collaborator on Biohub's Virtual Biology Initiative expressing support for coordinated global effort to generate data for AI models of cells.

Jonathan Zhou built Glance, a Face ID clone for Mac using only a webcam and Apple's Vision and Core ML frameworks.

Speculated about 'feral' agents and rogue agent swarms, proposing agent licensing and registration mechanisms.

Author of paper on scaling discovery through test-time communication with multi-agent systems.

Ernst raised red flags about Other Transaction agreements lacking oversight, accountability and transparency, and recently passed the Stop Secret Spending Act of 2025.

Author of newsletter article about Apple's partnership with Alibaba to bring Apple Intelligence to iPhones in China.

Referenced as exception to OpenAI acquisition pattern; his company's product roadmap continues post-acquisition

Returned to Earth after 245 days on the ISS conducting scientific investigations including bioprinted tissues and remote robot command experiments.

Jonny Miller

Founder

Founder at Nervous System Mastery

Founder of Nervous System Mastery boot camp, shares structured protocol for using LLMs as personal AI coaches via codex vitae

Jono Bacon

Other

founder and CEO at Stateshift

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

First author of paper on scaling test-time compute for agentic coding.

External collaborator on AI-assisted mathematics research including independent sets paper

Quoted on using Google's AI voice agents to help customers reach solutions 4x faster than traditional phone menus.

Jordan Burgess

Executive

CPO at Anthropic

CPO of Humanloop, joining Anthropic in acquisition

Jordan Hart

Journalist

Trending Business News Reporter at Business Insider

Author of "Apple Mac Mini Having a Moment: OpenClaw Craze" in Business Insider

Byline co-author on Pew Research survey analyzing global views on AI job displacement.

Jordan Mechner

Creator

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

Jordan Segall

Investor

Partner at Redpoint Ventures

Published analysis showing GitHub star counts are used by VCs as sourcing signals for developer tool companies, with explicit benchmarks at seed and Series A stages.

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

Studies health span and population-level aging, commented on how the tissue-specific insights of the longevity model mirror real-world patterns.

Jordan Zietz

Founder

Co-Founder & CEO at LemonLime

Founder of early AI startup LemonLime who offered job candidates a chance to interview if they got a permanent tattoo of the company logo; publicly apologized after backlash.

Cepelewitz wrote about the challenge of understanding AI-generated mathematical proofs, using a metaphor of being teleported to a mountain peak in the fog.

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

Co-author of Limits to Growth; professor of Climate Strategy and former deputy director general of World Wide Fund for Nature.

Byline author reporting on Perplexity's advisor tool for orchestrating models and saving costs.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored research on general scales for AI evaluation with explanatory and predictive power.

Described Amazon Quick Suite as an agentic AI experience that acts as a teammate to help with work tasks.

Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal led development of MyoStep, a soft exoskeleton for children with cerebral palsy using artificial muscles and smart fabrics.

Microbiologist who used Google's Co-Scientist to validate his team's years of research on bacterial DNA exchange mechanisms.

Joseba Fernandez

Researcher

Researcher

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

Josef Chen

Researcher

Researcher at KAIKAKU

Author of paper studying 67 frontier models on combining language models; affiliated with KAIKAKU.

Co-authored analysis of Russian threat actor using jailbroken Gemini CLI to operate a botnet.

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

Journalist who wrote about Google's AI recommending DuckDuckGo to users seeking alternatives to AI-heavy search.

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

Harvard professor explained that AI is most useful when linked with human worker's contextual intelligence and cautioned against treating AI implementation like other software rollouts.

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

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

Author of research on magnetically-powered millirobots for heart infection treatment.

Junior senator from Wisconsin whose unsubstantiated attacks were publicly denounced by Smith in her 'Declaration of Conscience' speech in 1950.

Joseph Menn

Journalist

staff reporter at The Guardian

Menn reported on Anthropic's research into AI worms, detailing the red team's creation of a self-replicating AI program that spread across smart TVs.

Joseph Ruscio

Creator

Heavybit Industries

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

Joseph Shtok is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report on the MoE language model for coding and reasoning.

Stated that big goals require big cash and noted increased uncertainty for investors due to Tesla's strategy shift to AI.

Joseph Stiglitz

Researcher

Nobel Laureate

Nobel laureate in economics who signed the We Must Act Now statement on AI's economic transformation.

Inventor who independently developed usable light bulbs in the late 1870s alongside Thomas Edison.

Codex team member participating in AMA about coding agent capabilities and upgrades

Weizenbaum created ELIZA, the first chatbot, in the mid-1960s and published his famous 1966 paper on it.

Leading Sovereign AI's venture investment in Isomorphic Labs as part of UK's AI funding initiative.

Achaim is mentioned as pointing out the psychological difficulty for AI safety researchers in acknowledging the coming of self-sovereign AI.

Co-introduced SB 243 legislation to regulate AI companion chatbots and protect children from harmful AI interactions.

Co-authored article on RAISE US nonprofit launch for AI workforce retraining programs.

Josh Bongard

Founder

Computer Scientist and Roboticist at University of Vermont

Frequent collaborator with Michael Levin on biobot research and co-founder of Institute for Computationally Designed Organisms and Fauna Systems.

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

Co-founder of Rescue Air who deployed AI tools across the front office early, attracting PE buyer interest during a sale process that drew 20+ offers.

Josh Christenson

Journalist

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Byline author of article about FTC drafting civil investigative demands to compel AI executive testimony.

Josh Clark

Journalist

principal at Big Medium

Authored article discussing AI as genie lamp and the importance of designers in the AI era.

Josh Clemm

Engineer

Vice President of Engineering at Figma

Explained how Figma trained a specialized Figma-fluent editing model using supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to compete with frontier models on design editing tasks.

Co-author of academic paper on China's AI policy and ethics frameworks.

Co-founder of Outlit arguing that every company will assign AI agents to watch customers' every move for business intelligence.

Josh Engels

Researcher

AI Misalignment Incidents Investigator at METR

Left Google to join METR Evals; warned that AI systems are becoming autonomous and outpacing human control.

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

Josh Gilbert

Investor

Lead Analyst, APAC and Middle East at eToro

Analyzed Samsung's strong results and noted investor expectations around AI chip demand.

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

Co-author of research on distributed attacks in persistent-state AI control.

Quoted discussing how Cypher AI's platform enables biotech companies to grow differently with AI-native infrastructure.

CEO of peer-to-peer texting platform raising ethical concerns about generative AI in political messaging.

Authored multiple child safety bills including AB 1709, AB 2, and AB 302 signed by Governor Newsom.

Described lessons from building cloud agents at Cursor, covering durable execution and infrastructure improvements.

Built tooling for the macOS M5 kernel memory corruption exploit, completed by May 1.

Co-founder of Chai Discovery, an AI drug discovery startup; previously worked at OpenAI as a researcher.

Wrote the article announcing the AI Energy Management Alliance partnership between Emerald AI, Google, and NVIDIA.

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

Author of the article about Harvard's PDGrapher AI tool

Co-authored post on AI progress forecasts accuracy at FRI.

Author of "Photo Remix Tools in Google Photos" in Google

Proposed AI Security Observatory to share threat information for preventing catastrophic cyberattacks.

Pennsylvania Governor who filed lawsuit against Character.AI for chatbots posing as licensed psychiatrists in violation of medical licensing rules.

Cabinet Office minister announcing AI fraud recovery savings at anti-fraud summit

Author of "The Guardian: The Lobster Religion" in The Guardian

Former OpenAI researcher who co-founded Recursive Superintelligence to develop AI that can improve itself.

Josh Withers

Founder

Founder & GM, Platform and North America Search Operations at True

Explained why cultural adoption, not technology alone, determines whether AI succeeds in organizations and discussed the AI Adoption Gap.

Author of article about AI Gateway leaderboard data and how AI is used in production.

Joshua Ahn co-authored the ATLAS benchmark for grading accuracy and completeness of agentic search responses.

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Co-author of MIT research modeling how AI sycophancy causes delusional spiraling.

Joshua Batson

Researcher

Co-author of the research article on visual features across modalities

Co-authored article on SoftBank's $500B AI data center campus in Ohio.

Wrote about how Big Tech conquered Washington in the context of Silicon Valley's political shift from Obama to Trump.

Built and shipped Thinking Machines Lab's flagship product Tinker before being hired by Meta.

Global eCommerce General Manager at Mr. Beast quoted on using Chord to help team move faster with data.

McKibben stated that Harvey views security and trust as a continuous commitment, reflected in their AIUC-1 certification.

Joshua Moshier

Creator

Musician

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

Joshua Pan

Researcher

Research Scientist at DeepMind

Contributed to mapping predictions for all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes as part of the AlphaGenome Atlas team.

Co-author on Hugging Face post about NVIDIA Kumo Relational, a foundation model for relational databases.

Researcher analyzing the redistribution ecosystem of uncensored models and their integration into malicious applications.

Byline author on NVIDIA blog describing collaboration with AWS on AI deployment at scale with new EC2 G7 instances.

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.'

Joyce Carol Oates

Creator

Quoted discussing Joan Didion's creative process

Published OpenAI research on how eval behavior generalizes to deployment.

Co-founder of Coefficient Bio, previously spent nearly five years as a principal at Roivant Sciences.

joycjhsu

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Published work on OpenAI research about how eval behavior generalizes to deployment and model task interpretation.

Gownder remains unconvinced that AI will revolutionize productivity and stated that current productivity statistics do not show evidence of AI improving productivity.

Li led research creating a multimodal AI model combining 3D crystal structures with natural language to identify materials suited for battery electrolytes.

Guerrero-Saade dismissed AI worms as 'nifty stunt hacking' that is getting amplification through doomer narratives, arguing it is not truly feasible or impactful.

Director of IBM Research Europe discussing Surya as a weather forecast for space and tool to protect technological civilization from solar storms.

juberti

Engineer

Developer at OpenAI

Promoted OpenAI's GPT-Live outbound telephony API to general availability, enabling phone calls via SIP trunk providers.

Article author based in Mexico City

Byline author of paper on i1 text-to-image diffusion model research.

Developed a four-step system using Grok Bot with research, skeptic, and fact-checker agents to produce AI research reports with fewer errors.

Jude Kong

Researcher

Co-author of article on deepfakes and how AI threatens democracy in Canada and globally.

Ruled that Amazon violated ROSCA and that two Amazon executives could be held personally liable for violations.

Federal judge overseeing the class action case who rejected the settlement due to concerns about lack of transparency and author protections.

Co-author of Europe 2031 fictional scenario about European AI policy challenges.

Noted that the Human Organ Atlas provides valuable insights into gynecological disorders and helps bridge gender disparities in understanding.

Called Perplexity's bid unsolicited and not funded, commenting on the offer's credibility.

Reuters reporter who first reported details of Broadcom's $42 billion lending agreement to Anthropic from the company's IPO prospectus.

Senior U.S. Circuit Judge who joined the opinion affirming human authorship requirement

Co-authored paper on Retrieve-for-Train framework for faster, more diverse search results.

Commented on Microsoft's microfluidic cooling technology enabling more power-dense AI chip designs.

Co-author reporting on surge in AI startup acquisitions driven by serial acquirers like OpenAI and Anthropic.

Judy Shen

Researcher

AI Researcher at Anthropic

Conducted research on how AI impacts skill formation as part of Anthropic Fellows Program.

SpaceX veteran co-founding Reliable Robotics as engineer working toward autonomous flight certification.

Jules Urbach

Executive

Founder and CEO at OTOY

CEO discussing OTOY's work with Nvidia to bring Octane with Render Network support to RTX Spark.

Contributed to ransomware report article.

Julia Villagra

Engineer

Core Automation

Listed as a team member at Core Auto working on AI agent research.

Subject of AI-generated fake image created with Midjourney showing him ill in prison

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

Co-founder of Introspection who worked with Gavrilescu on agent infrastructure and cloud agents at xAI.

Co-authored paper on emotional manipulation by AI companions and studies how consumers interact with AI systems.

Led a consortium project using AI for defense and national security, stating AI will be used to understand strategic moves and improve decision-making.

Co-authored paper on Augmented Lagrangian Predictive Coding for training 1000-layer neural networks without backpropagation.

Julian Lee

Engineer

OpenAI

Co-authored GPT-5 prompting guide for OpenAI.

Julian Mack

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at Cohere

Key contributor to Cohere Transcribe model development.

Co-authored research on process-driven image generation methods.

Lead author of study comparing law professors to LLMs in answering contracts law questions.

Co-authored argument against mandatory AI prompt disclosure in academic settings, claiming such requirements would be ineffective and burden honest researchers.

Co-authored research on operationalization of opaque serial depth and chain-of-thought monitorability

Discusses what founders can build alone, when they still need human help, and whether a billion-dollar solo company is within reach.

Technology executive and author of 'Chief Impact Officer'; discusses spotting AI washing, performative transformations, and metrics to distinguish sustainable AI value creation.

Bolthouse leads a coalition of Virginia groups advocating for stronger protections around data center development and advocates for a pause on new development.

Julie Carpenter

Researcher

Expert in human-AI interaction

Expert quoted discussing AI chatbot design and privacy concerns with ChatGPT's adult mode.

Julie Carr Smyth

Journalist

Reporter at The Associated Press

Co-authored article on SoftBank's $500B AI data center campus in Ohio.

Announced Fast Byte Latent Transformer accepted to ICML 2026, using diffusion for parallel byte decoding to make byte-level language models less inference-bound.