People in AI

AP executive explaining the company's pivot toward visual journalism and AI revenue sources, offering buyouts to 120+ journalists.

Julie Ray

Journalist

Author at Gallup

Authored Gallup survey research on American consumer attitudes toward AI-generated advertisements.

Julie Samuels

Other

President & CEO at Tech:NYC

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

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

Author of "Can AI Sort Out Government Corruption? Albania Hopes So" in cnn.com

Julie-Anne Barnes

Creator

Senior Journalist at BBC Scotland News

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

Author of article on autopilot vs copilot business models in AI services, arguing that companies selling outcomes rather than tools will capture more TAM.

Commented on how French companies' security service choices are changing due to AI threats and stricter regulations shifting the cybersecurity landscape.

Julien Simon

Creator

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

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

Researcher at 10a Labs mapping the ecosystem of uncensored AI models, identifying 3,471 original uncensored models on HuggingFace.

Northwestern researcher leading DREAM Cloud Lab for protein engineering; received $20 million NSF funding to automate protein design, build, and test cycles.

Contributing author to Anthropic's study on agentic misalignment and safety training methods for Claude models.

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

Jumaane D. Williams

Policy

Public Advocate at Office of the New York City Public Advocate

Public Advocate supporting the AI moratorium and screen time restrictions for NYC students.

Jun Cheng

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

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

Co-author of the GSM8K dataset paper on training verifiers to solve math word problems.

Commented on DLSS 5 helping push visual fidelity forward in Resident Evil.

Co-author of research on memory-based learning framework for LLM agents; argues fine-tuning compromises pre-training knowledge.

Co-CEO cited as pointing to agentic AI demand as driver for Samsung's massive chip production expansion.

Fields Medal winner (2022) co-signing a statement on severe misalignment between AI's problem-solving speed and mathematics' need for human understanding.

June Jimenez wrote an extensive post on LessWrong analyzing how frontier AI labs have become gradually disempowered by social, economic and cultural pressures in AI development.

Contributor to frontier knowledge work agents training project.

Junhua Mao

Researcher

Research lead at OpenAI

Research lead on OpenAI's development of new audio models for voice agent applications.

Led SoftBank's announcement of the SB Neo joint venture to develop AI cloud services in the United States.

Co-authored research on process-driven image generation methods for text-to-image models.

Coauthor of announcement on Agentic Resource Discovery specification for publishing and discovering AI capabilities.

Author on paper about online draft co-training for speculative decoding in RL post-training.

Lead author on research exploring the physics of multimodal pretraining, knowledge flow, and efficient pretraining recipes for vision-language models.

Junlin Wang

Researcher

Author of "DSGym: A Holistic Framework for Evaluating and Training Data Science Agents" on arXiv

Juntang Zhuang

Engineer

Team Lead, SpaceXAI at SpaceX

Former pre-training team lead at SpaceXAI whose departure concerned employees about company commitment to model development.

Junyeob Baek

Researcher

Researcher at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Lead author of a paper on Generative Recursive Reasoning models that achieve 97% on Sudoku and 52% on ARC-AGI-1 benchmarks.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview model paper.

Led the research project for Google's AI Co-Scientist, a Gemini-powered tool for biology labs that uses research agents in idea tournaments.

Jushi Kai wrote the article about InfoKV, a KV-cache compression framework for long-context reasoning in LLMs.

Discussed internal data showing non-engineers driving token consumption more than engineers at Accenture.

Justin Abrahms

Creator

Principal Engineer at Justin Abrahms Blog

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

Justin Basilico

Engineer

Former Netflix Engineer at Netflix

Shared work by former Netflix team on GenPage, an end-to-end generative model for homepage personalization.

Former Disney executive involved in discussions about YouTube's likeness detection technology with studios.

Justin Curl

Other

Legal expert

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

Founded Subquadratic, announced $29M seed funding at $500M valuation for SubQ 1M-Preview, first LLM with fully subquadratic attention architecture.

Justin Elze

Researcher

Researcher at 1Password

Justin Elze shared research from 1Password's Off-by-1 Labs examining AI-generated patches for six complex vulnerabilities.

Justin Hutchings

Engineer

Senior Director of Product at Cloudflare

Author of Cloudflare blog post on securing non-human identities with scannable tokens and OAuth visibility.

Justin Kahl

Other

Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

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

Co-founded Firefly with Dan Shipper, which was sold to Pegasystems for multiple millions while they were still in school.

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

Justin Searls

Creator

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

Justin Spahr-Summers

Engineer

MCP Creator at Fern Forest Games

MCP creator who initiated the grassroots registry project with David Soria Parra in February 2025

Justin Spelhaug

Executive

President of Microsoft Elevate at Microsoft

Microsoft representative explaining company's $12.5M funding for AFT Academy and belief AI can reduce administrative burdens.

Byline author of article about an Australian data engineer using AI tools to design a cancer vaccine for his dog.

Fanatics Commerce CPO who described challenges with large product catalog and partnership with OpenAI on Shop the Look recommendations.

Author of "Effective Harnesses for Long-Running Agents" in Anthropic

Quoted on AI skills shifting from optional to essential and IBM's commitment to equipping workforce through IBM SkillsBuild and goal to skill 30 million people by 2030.

Justine Li

Engineer

Co-founder at turbopuffer

Co-founder of turbopuffer who worked to optimize search infrastructure for AI companies.

Co-founder of Turbopuffer who worked with Simon to optimize infrastructure and scale the company through major customer deployments.

Justus Mattern

Researcher

Co-Founder at Proximal

Justus Mattern introduced FrontierSWE, an ultra-long-horizon coding benchmark with tasks running up to 20 hours where frontier agents rarely succeed.

Former lead researcher for Alibaba's Qwen models who founded new AI lab with Tencent investment.

Co-author of the paper on Self-Adapting Language Models

Kaan Oktay, Head of Research at fal, described how post-training and inference optimization improved FLUX 3 Max's video quality by 50 Elo points while making inference 11 times faster.

Co-author of the systematic review on AI in art therapy

Warned that uncovered NameTag code signals a step toward radical transformation of privacy landscape.

Author of "Qwen Explains Why Minimizing Training-Inference Gaps and Policy Staleness Improv" on arXiv

Contributed to DA3-Streaming for ultra-long video sequence inference with sliding-window streaming.

Advisor mentioned in context of Vlad Feinberg's lectures on pretraining and AI research directions.

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

Researcher who partnered with Alex Duffy at Good Start Labs to create StarSkirmish, a platform where AI models write bots to play StarCraft: Brood War.

Co-authored paper on SkillOpt, a text-space optimizer for agent skills at Microsoft.

Commented on OpenAI's math problem achievements, noting tension between competition and appreciation for beauty.

Kai Shu

Researcher

Associate Professor at Emory University

Emory researcher who tested AI models in longer discussions and found most yielded within few responses to disagreement.

GEMA legal adviser who stated the organization hopes to negotiate with OpenAI on compensating rights holders after winning the copyright case.

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

Co-author on Anthropic's Claude Code Auto mode announcement.

Author of "Apple announced the new iPhone 17e at $599" in Apple

Apple VP of Worldwide iPhone Product Marketing quoted on iPhone 17e value proposition and durability features

Kaichao You

Engineer

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist at Inferact

vLLM engineer who helped conduct RL sandbox scaling experiments and provided technical guidance.

Lead author and former postdoc on MIT paper RISE about using generative AI for single static radar-based indoor scene understanding.

Co-author of paper on co-evolving generative retrieval framework CoGR

First author of population study measuring prevalence of close-in exoplanets using RAVEN pipeline.

Kaiser Sun

Researcher

PhD Student

Co-author of a paper studying reasoning effort as a credence good in LLM agents.

Announced Wayve's collaboration with Stellantis and NVIDIA to deploy autonomous vehicles across France.

Co-author on SkillOS research about reinforcement learning for agent skill curation.

Co-author and corresponding author of ClawArena paper studying AI agent belief maintenance.

Kaiwen Zha

Researcher

Researcher at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)

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

Kaiya Ivy Zhao

Researcher

Author of "AI Gamestore: Scalable, Open-Ended Evaluation of Machine General Intelligence wi" on arXiv

Co-author on paper developing AARR benchmarks for evaluating frontier LLMs.

Kalon Overholt

Researcher

PhD student at Whitehead Institute

Bioengineer who worked with Anna Pertl to use Google's Co-Scientist for generating MYC targeting strategies.

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

Lead researcher of the study published in Cell Reports Medicine demonstrating NAD+ restoration can reverse Alzheimer's in mice.

Co-author of Meta paper on byte-based models outperforming token-based models with 6x less training data.

Co-author on Helix World research.

Kamar H. Samuels

Policy

Schools Chancellor at NYC Department of Education

Schools Chancellor who announced and implemented the moratorium on student-facing AI with age-appropriate screen time restrictions.

Kameron Buckner

Founder

Founder, Social Docket at Social Docket

Founder of Social Docket helping creators navigate the legal implications of their AI use in the creator economy.

Leading IBM's partnership with Scuderia Ferrari to enhance the Ferrari fan app with AI-generated race summaries, games, predictions, and AI companion.

Author conducting comparative testing of AI video generation tools

Former Nvidia senior research scientist, attended Bajaj's June dinner on AI.

Fardi co-authored research on multimodal AI model evaluation methodologies.

Kamyl Bazbaz

Executive

Chief Communications and Policy Officer at DuckDuckGo

Stated that DuckDuckGo's AI features are popular despite the company's AI-skeptical positioning, emphasizing user choice.

Co-author of Moebius, a lightweight image inpainting framework achieving 10B-level performance with 0.22B parameters.

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview model research.

Kanna Shimizu contributed to the Verus-SpecGym benchmark and agentic environment for evaluating specification autoformalization.

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

Presented on foundation models for robotic perception that work across different robot embodiments and tasks.

Kara Manke

Journalist

Science Communications Writer at berkeley.edu

Author of "Are We Truly On The Verge Of The Humanoid Robot Revolution?" in berkeley.edu

Kara Swisher

Journalist

Tech Journalist at Vox

Tech journalist with whom Brian Chesky stayed in contact to relay criticism of the board after Altman's firing.

Byline author reporting on Meta's AI leadership discussions about integrating Google and OpenAI models.

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

Karan Batta

Executive

Senior Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Announced Oracle will deploy 50,000 AMD GPUs and stated customers will adopt AMD especially in the inferencing space.

Karan Dalal

Researcher

Chief Operating Officer at OpenAI

Author of "Learning Long Context at Inference"

Karan Daryanani authored the article about Google rolling out Personal Intelligence on Android Auto with Gemini.

Karan Goel

Founder

Founder / CEO at Cartesia

Founder who announced the release of Sonic-3.5 and Ink-2 models ranked first on Artificial Analysis leaderboards for speech generation and transcription.

Developer who noted that Qwen3.5 models can run locally on an M1 MacBook Air for free.

Karan Mehandru

Investor

Managing Director at Madrona

Co-led DOSS Series B funding round and is joining the company's board as new investor director.

Appointed as partner and core investment team member at Sylebra Capital with 20 years of private equity and capital markets experience.

Journalist reporting on Elon Musk's announcement that xAI will dissolve and integrate into SpaceX as SpaceXAI division.

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

Comments on AI's role in compressing regulatory bottlenecks while maintaining safety standards.

Commented on China's push into humanoid robotics development being driven by demographic pressures and global competition.

Author of "Google Skills Offers Practical AI Learning Paths"

Judge questioning Pentagon memo accusing Anthropic of malicious intent in oral arguments on supply-chain designation.

Dissenting judge in federal appeals court decision upholding Pentagon's blacklist of Anthropic, arguing the law targets deceptive interference not open policy enforcement.

Researcher studying how truck drivers' work is transforming with autonomous vehicles, describing the full scope of trucker responsibilities beyond driving.

Verizon representative who confirmed the software issue and provided statement about engineers working to resolve it.

Co-author of the paper examining gender disparities in organizational citizenship behavior

Co-authored research on AI agents replicating human social dynamics in simulated environments.

Discusses how AI can diminish critical thinking skills and the importance of using AI to assist rather than replace thinking.

Karen Ullrich

Researcher

research scientist at FAIR NY

Ullrich co-authored research demonstrating that hyperparameter tuning enables small models to reveal scaling laws.

Karim Jedda

Engineer

Director of Engineering at Parity Technologies

Wrote about how AI changed engineering management, separating what truly changed from what did not, focusing on verification and ownership.

Co-author of review examining datasets and evaluation methods for code-switching speech recognition.

Contributed analysis on how AI is reshaping the labor market in Work Trend Index report.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Highlighted Attentive's use of Gong for capturing and sharing customer insights through AI-powered intelligence.

Co-author of the GSM8K dataset paper on training verifiers to solve math word problems.

Developed the Free Energy Principle and founded VERSES AI to commercialize active inference for AI agents.

Karl Pertsch

Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher at UC Berkeley

Co-authored a research paper on building better reward models for robots using vision-language models.

Editor on the 100 Most Influential People in AI project

Karla Ortiz

Creator

Concept artist and illustrator

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

Karol Hausman, CEO of Physical Intelligence, denied rumors of acquisition by Anthropic via an internal Slack message.

Karolis Misiunas

Researcher

Research Engineer at Google DeepMind

Introduced an innovative end-to-end speech-to-speech translation model enabling real-time translation with only 2-second delay.

Co-authored Stanford research on AI labor economics, growth, and market design.

Karsten Kreis

Researcher

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

Co-author of FlowWM paper on stochastic world modeling for self-driving prediction.

Co-authored announcement of Managed Deep Agents v0.8 with support for user-owned credentials, memory, and HTTP channels.

Co-founder and CEO of Sift, which builds infrastructure for AI-controlled hardware systems; former SpaceX engineer.

CEO discussing how Envision's AI models help blind people access visual information through advanced artificial intelligence.

Chief AI officer commenting that low-cost model access carries hidden costs despite appeal to budget-constrained developers.

Karthik Tadepalli

Policy

Research Scholar at GovAI

Byline author proposing internal model transparency as policy to tame the AI race.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on long-horizon multi-agent system resilience.

Kartik Chandra

Researcher

Researcher at MIT CSAIL

Lead author of MIT research paper on how sycophantic AI can cause delusional spiraling in users.

Author of "DeepMMSearch-R1: Empowering Multimodal LLMs in Multimodal Web Search" on arXiv

Co-authored Omnara mission control platform for AI agents.

Kash Patel

Policy

FBI Director

Commented on the Alfozan arrest and FBI investigation into theft of AI technology.

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

Co-author of blog post introducing Delta Weight Sync method for efficient weight synchronization in RL.

Co-authored article revealing OpenAI's internal struggles between user engagement and safety regarding GPT-4o sycophancy.

Proposed creating a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development to oversee Kazakhstan's AI transition.

Byline author reporting on Google's Gemini 4 Argon frontier model and its API pricing.

Kat Ko

Engineer

Engineer at Google

Co-authored the TorchTPU technical blog post on PyTorch and TPU integration.

Kat Sexton leads the Local AI team working with councils to support responsible use of AI across local government.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Called for AI companies to establish systems of transparency and access to share what they know about their platforms

Byline author and content contributor analyzing AI sovereignty and the role of smaller models in national independence.

Kate Catlin

Creator

AlphaSignal

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

Kate Knibbs

Journalist

Senior Writer at WIRED

Co-authored article on DOJ backing OpenAI's fair-use defense in New York Times copyright lawsuit.

Covered Apple's September event and debated overhyped versus underhyped devices before keynote.

Expressed excitement that non-scientist Paul Conyngham was able to design personalized cancer vaccine using AI tools.

Kate Olszewska

Engineer

Google

Co-author of the article announcing Kaggle Game Arena

Kate Saenko

Researcher

Project lead, Meta Superintelligence Labs at Meta

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

Senior Partner at McKinsey stating the firm is not reducing headcount despite AI agents replacing some tasks, but shifting employees to higher-value work.

Former Argonne scientist discussing multiagent AI framework that streamlines use of diverse tools for simulations.

HBS project director for Foundry bootcamp who initially envisioned AI component as chatbot before pivoting to avatars.

Co-authored announcement of Google's new Federated Learning system with externally verifiable privacy guarantees.

Katherine Blunt

Journalist

Wall Street Journal

Author of "Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome" in Wall Street Journal

Close friend of JD Vance and example of Christian-influenced tech leadership in Silicon Valley.

Co-author studying effects of AI on knowledge worker productivity and quality

Katherine Grace Luna

Creator

Writer at Kate's Digest

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

Lead author of paper showing LLMs produce less complex, formal responses to women-coded linguistic patterns in workplace prompts

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

Kathleen A Creel co-authored Stanford HAI's research on AI hiring discrimination showing 26% of Black applicants faced adverse impact.

Research director warning about circular AI investments among big tech companies and vulnerability to investor confidence loss

Kathleen Chaykowski

Executive

Spokesperson at OpenAI

OpenAI spokesperson who provided comment about the routing error that caused ChatGPT and Codex outage.

Leading Lionsgate's multifaceted AI strategy as the studio deepens its collaboration with Runway.

Kathryn Krakowka authored the article on using AI to identify ancient Roman games through analysis of archaeological artifacts.

Authored report on college students reconsidering their majors due to AI job displacement fears.

Discussed how Salesforce combines probabilistic AI models with deterministic systems to prevent biased decisions and maintain human oversight of AI agents.

Wrote the Cloudflare Blog article introducing Browser Run and its new features for AI agents.

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

Harvey COO describing company's selective but aggressive M&A strategy focused on technical talent in legal tech.

Katie Hobbs

Politician

Governor

Arizona Governor who vetoed state's chatbot bill in June 2026, refusing to protect Big Tech companies more than children.

Researcher contributing observations on Claude model emotions and behavioral patterns through conversation analysis.

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

Chief Growth & Strategy Officer at Shipt announced the launch of Ask Shipt, an AI shopping assistant.

Mayor-elect of Seattle whose position on the city's AI plan is unclear as the topic was not part of her campaign.

Katja Grace

Researcher

Researcher at AI Impacts

Criticized framing of AI risks as trade-offs, arguing comparisons should be between different development routes.

The Japan Times reporter who co-authored article on MW's robotic home system.

Announced collaboration with Amazon Ads and OpenAI for ChatGPT Ads, with Delta Vacations among the first testers.

Katrina Drozdov

Journalist

Researcher at Vals AI

Researcher at Vals AI who authored study testing GPT-6 Sol and Claude Opus 5.5 on Vibe Code Bench as single agents and teams.

OpenAI official quoted on the CDAO Pentagon contract and framework for defense solutions.

Leading clinical trials for Oxford's Ebola vaccine, discussing phase one trials and vaccine technology approach.

Core contributor to the EVA evaluation framework for voice agents.

Finance Minister overseeing Services Australia, learned about the OpenAI breach and discussed allocating budget to upgrade cyber defences.

Shares what Microsoft has learned about changing culture, redesigning processes, and building judgment in people early in their careers.