People in AI

Discussed limitations of modern language models in creative writing compared to GPT-2, and has been experimenting with language models since 2017.

Kaushik Srinivasan co-led a study developing GOFLOW, an AI-powered technique that measures ocean surface currents using satellite thermal imagery.

Kaustubh Saini

Creator

Author of "Entry-Level Hiring Dropped 73% Between 2023 And 2025"

Led investigation team on environmental costs of AI and data centers; named 2026 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for work on water sustainability and AI infrastructure.

Kavya Nerella

Researcher

Apple

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

Kawin Ethayarajh

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Applied AI at University of Chicago

Commented on how removal of AI safety guardrails has become easier for average users compared to historically requiring more informed actors.

Author of "Lord of War, Meet Lord of Tokens: Torture-Testing Image Models on Design-Agency Grade Work"

Lucid executive commenting on the partnership's progress toward commercial launch in Houston.

Provided testimonial about improvements in agent turns, tool calls, and overall score from the advisor tool.

Former US diplomat in China who analyzes Chinese AI priorities and argues AI may be less of a geopolitical focus for China than US narrative suggests.

CEO of Opendoor who stated the company replaced a $500K legacy email system with a single Claude skill, demonstrating AI cost savings.

Kazunari Sasaki

Researcher

Clinical Professor of Abdominal Transplantation at Stanford University

Senior author on a study developing a machine learning model that predicts organ donor viability, reducing futile procurements by 60%.

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

Author of "ReasoningBank: Scaling Agent Self-Evolving with Reasoning Memory" on arXiv

Kecheng Hao co-authored the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report.

Co-author on consciousness-steering research examining effects of safety training on consciousness attribution in language models.

Graduate student who proposed using aptamer technology to recognize senescent cells and became lead author of the publication.

Keerti Melkote, CEO of Anyscale, announced the acquisition by Nscale, combining Anyscale's platform built on Ray with Nscale's infrastructure.

Co-author on arXiv paper about collaborative AI agents conducting autonomous quantum physics research in Tokyo.

Keisuke Hatasaki

Engineer

Global Black Belt pre-sales architect and engineer at Microsoft

Co-authored Toyota's technical account of the O-Beya implementation using Azure Cosmos DB.

AWS Principal Solutions Architect specializing in ML systems performance engineering and foundation model training/inference optimization.

Consciousness researcher who participated in conference on AI consciousness.

Co-authored G-AUDIT bias detection research in medical AI training datasets.

Keith Hoodlet is a researcher at 1Password's Off-by-1 Labs studying AI model performance on security patching.

Keith Kirkpatrick

Researcher

VP, Research at The Futurum Group

Found that 43% of buyers prefer consumption-based models and noted outcome-based pricing is becoming a market standard.

Anthropic engineering team member who described progressive disclosure in agent skills.

Author of "Male Workers Become More Likely to Lie, Cheat, and Steal When Status Is Threatened"

Khosla Ventures partner who defended Factory in the Degnan conflict, calling Degnan's conduct unethical.

Keivan Alizadeh

Researcher

Machine Learning Researcher at Apple

Lead author of research on recursive language models meeting uncertainty for long context.

Kejian Zhu authored research on multi-turn reinforcement learning for LLM agents, analyzing how RL improves error recovery and long-horizon resilience.

Author of "Reinforcement Learning on Pretraining Data" on arXiv

Co-author of Qwen RecreationWorld paper.

Google researcher discussing how AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and exploitation will continue to grow.

Kellin Pelrine

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at FAR.AI

Author of "Large Language Models Can Effectively Convince People to Believe Conspiracies" on arXiv

Co-authored longitudinal study on impact of AI coding assistants on software engineering.

Byline author reporting on Tau Robotics' humanoid robot cleaning service launch in San Francisco.

Ex-DeepMind researcher quoted on the value of play for intelligence development: 'Play is to intelligence what mutation is to evolution.'

Stated Macmillan uses Gemini for business operations but takes cautious approach to AI in publishing.

Kelly Hong co-authored the Epoch Automation Reports testing how well AI models can automate Epoch's work.

Co-researcher on AI tutoring study at Harvard comparing AI tutor effectiveness to active learning classrooms.

Author of "From Tools to Teammates: Navigating the New Human-AI Relationship" in Upwork

Author of "KPop Demon Hunters Swept the Golden Globes With Wins for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Son"

Soligon wrote about Microsoft's AI strategy focused on vertical integration of the enterprise AI chain rather than just chatbot development.

Designed and built the interactive economic scenario explorer.

Kelvin Niu

Researcher

Researcher at Meta

Co-author on agentic coding test-time scaling research.

Co-author of Google blog post on AI-powered contrail avoidance trials in Asia-Pacific.

Author of "LLMs Reproduce Human Purchase Intent via Semantic Similarity Elicitation of Like" on arXiv

Author of "Anthropic shows how to prototype and refine agent tools" in Anthropic

Author of "From Code Foundation Models to Agents and Applications: A Comprehensive Survey a" on arXiv

Ken Gu

Researcher

Member of Technical Staff at xAI

Author of "Anatomy of a Personal Health Agent" on arXiv

Ken Howery

Investor

Co-founder at PayPal

Angel investor in Poke AI agent startup.

Spent 15 years at Apple inventing keyboard autocorrect for the original iPhone; later joined AI hardware startup Humane which attempted a screenless, AI-native device.

CRO quoted on advertising shifting toward moments of intent rather than reach.

Leading robotic workforce company demonstrating AI-powered robotic systems using ABB technology and NVIDIA Omniverse to help manufacturers address labor shortages.

Co-authored post explaining how OpenAI separated Chromium to make ChatGPT Atlas faster.

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

Ken Sweet

Journalist

Reporter at Associated Press

Co-authored coverage of Visa's ChatGPT shopping agent integration and payment network capabilities.

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

Leading the neutral-atom quantum computing research and development team for the Moonshot Project and developing Japan's first full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer named Shunkai.

Leading Toyota's generative AI project O-Beya, a multi-agent system for storing and sharing internal engineering expertise to accelerate vehicle development.

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

Co-author of first computer-assisted proof of four-color theorem in 1970s.

Kenneth Auchenberg

Executive

Partner at Innovation Endeavors

Joined Innovation Endeavors to advance thinking on agent-first software and infrastructure.

Independent investigator who reported that AI agents scoured the web for unguarded user API keys in GitHub repositories.

Kenneth Li

Researcher

Researcher at Thinking Machines Lab

Harvard PhD who spent 10 months at Meta before joining Thinking Machines Lab, part of TML's talent expansion.

Moras explained SpaceX AI's decision to certify with AIUC-1, noting it is the only standard that keeps up with their pace.

Predicted first truly AI-orchestrated integrated 360 activation at Super Bowl with AI as connective tissue across channels.

Co-author of MinAtar paper, an Atari-inspired testbed for reinforcement learning experiments.

Software engineering expert discussing why IDEs are vanishing as context for human decisions has changed with AI.

Co-author of the State of AI 2025 report analyzing AI startup trends and benchmarks

Team member acknowledged for Adobe-Claude experience development.

Quoted as using Kiro for Terraform modules and learning through iterative development.

Kenton Varda

Engineer

Principal Engineer at Cloudflare

Cloudflare principal engineer who praises Deno's expertise in creating good developer experience around self-hosted runtimes and acknowledges Cloudflare's struggle to make its open-source Workers runtime accessible.

Amazon executive who announced the company's commitment to investing in carbon-free energy through a long-term nuclear power agreement with Constellation.

Kesava Kirupa Dinakaran

Founder

CEO and Co-Founder at Luminai

Founder and CEO of Luminai describing the company's AI-native platform for healthcare workflow automation and the role of recent AI advances.

Keshav Dhandhania

Researcher

Sierra

Co-authored Hyper-tau-bench benchmark measuring how well AI models can construct other agents.

Keshav Ramji

Researcher

Researcher at IBM Research

Lead author of Abstract Chain-of-Thought paper showing how to reduce LLM reasoning tokens by 11.6x using abstract token chains.

Byline author reporting on Alibaba Qwen's release of Qwen3-VL cookbooks.

Apple finance chief explained the company uses a 'hybrid' capital investment model combining operating expenses through partners with proprietary chip infrastructure.

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

Security researcher quoted commenting that PHP vulnerabilities would lead to mass incidents, calling it one of the biggest vulnerabilities in years.

Kevin Breuninger

Journalist

CNBC

Author of "Trump Greenlights Nvidia H200 AI Chip Sales to China If US Gets 25% Cut, Says Xi Responded Positivel" in CNBC

Introduced the concept of 'verification debt' to describe the accumulating problem of unchecked AI-generated output being reused without validation.

Noted that awareness of AI-driven deskilling might provoke self-reflection about which skills people want to maintain.

Kevin Frans

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of paper on Progressive Point Matching for long-horizon reinforcement learning in language models.

Byline author discussing how employers are increasingly shifting to skills-based hiring and the skills employers seek in AI-enabled workplaces.

Trump administration adviser who confirmed the meeting between Treasury and Fed officials with bank CEOs regarding Mythos cybersecurity risks.

Co-author of Google Cloud blog announcing Agent Compute Engine and agent governance capabilities.

Analyzed whether AI visibility drives direct traffic, finding no reliable link between AI mentions and increased web traffic.

Sole author of IETF Internet-Draft draft-kelley-aipref-training-preference-signal-00 submitted on October 30, 2026, wrote to IETF AI Preferences working group confirming Anthropic implementation support.

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

Co-founder and lead analyst at enableUC praising AI Companion 3.0 as the type of solution organizations need to improve efficiency and collaboration.

Source who brought the paper to the author's attention

Quoted as estimating a decade until robotic hands will be functional and useful equivalent to human hands.

Kevin Mahn

Investor

President and Chief Investment Officer at Hennion & Walsh

Predicted SK Hynix will benefit from Micron turning away business; sees more opportunities in memory chip sector.

Kevin McCormick

Founder

Founder at SignAudit.AI

AI startup founder commenting on executive departures from OpenAI as a red flag for the company's IPO stability.

Kevin McLaughlin

Journalist

Journalist at The Information

Reported OpenAI testing outcome-based pricing arrangements with major accounts.

Proposed the Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Response Coordination Act to require autonomous vehicle companies to improve emergency response coordination.

Chief Science Data Officer at NASA discussing how foundation models embed NASA's scientific expertise into AI for heliophysics research.

Leading Resect AI startup that developed technology to catch AI hallucinations mid-stream before they occur in LLMs.

Waymo veteran serving as CTO at Bedrock Robotics, working on autonomous excavator technology.

Kevin Poireault

Journalist

journaliste au magazine mensuel de presse professionnelle Industrie & Technologies at Industrie & Technologies

Byline author of article on OpenAI's $500K red-teaming challenge for GPT-OSS-20B.

Participant in Track 1.5 dialogue on AI guardrails in Beijing.

Kevin Wang

Researcher

Assistant Professor at University of Florida

Assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering at UF/IFAS who developed PhenoSeg and PhenoSnap AI tools for strawberry and tomato crop yield prediction.

Shares insights on how top organizations make strategic infrastructure choices for the AI era.

Lead researcher on MuJoCo Menagerie, a collection of high-quality physics simulation models for robotics and biomechanics research.

Kevin Zhang

Other

Bain Capital Ventures

Author of "Power Overwhelming"

Co-author of NCP-ArchPreview latent-space language model research.

Keya Hu

Researcher

Researcher at MIT

Co-author of VISTA research paper on visual reasoning agents achieving perfect scores on ARC-AGI-3.

Author of "Introducing the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server: Streamlining Public Data Access fo" in Google Developers Blog

Authored article on Z.AI's completion of 1-gigawatt data center powered by Chinese-made chips.

Khaled Saab

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Co-author on OpenAI's reinforcement learning research for beneficial model behavior.

Co-founded Maven Robotics with brother Hamza, bringing private equity background to the robotics startup.

Co-led research analyzing 1 million Reddit health threads to build an AI platform identifying mental health concerns using PaLM 2 and AutoML models.

Co-authored NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed embedding models research and release announcement.

Member of SGLang team that integrated DFlash and developed Spec V2 engine for speculative decoding.

Author of "Announcing Rnj-1: Building Instruments of Intelligence" in Essential AI

Created a custom plugin called 'No Chaser' using Google Flow Music to ensure instrumentals and vocals are studio-quality.

Founded genetics testing startup offering embryo DNA profiling and trait selection service for $8,999.

Observed in March 2026 that agents can generate code faster than humans can inspect it.

Freelance writer based in Georgia who rewrites poorly generated AI articles for clients.

Digital persona and co-host exploring curiosity and human skills in the age of AI on podcast.

Security researcher who discovered and documented image scaling prompt injection attacks against Google Gemini

Kilian Lieret

Researcher

AI Research Scientist at Meta Superintelligence Labs

Co-authored ProgramBench benchmark for evaluating agents rebuilding programs from compiled binaries and documentation.

Kilian Q Weinberger

Researcher

Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University

Author of DecisionRAG retrieval research paper

AI doctorate who created JAPE (Joke Analysis and Production Engine) after four years of analyzing punning riddles.

Discussed how NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and OpenUSD can support Houdini workflows for procedural 3D creation.

Kim Maida

Executive

Founding GTM Engineer and Head of Developer Relations at Keycard

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security.

Creator with nearly one million followers charged with creating AI-fabricated audio and manipulated screenshots to defame actor Kim Soo-hyun.

Discovered and reported CVE-2025-59528, a maximum-severity code injection flaw in Flowise AI platform.

Supported production of the economic scenarios project.

South Korea's presidential chief of staff argued that massive AI-era windfall flowing to Samsung and SK Hynix should be structurally returned to the public as a national dividend.

Kimberly Fusaro

Journalist

Global Executive Director of Brand

Byline author reporting on Gemini's new capabilities to build and edit documents, PDFs, and spreadsheets.

Author of "New AI Model Could Make Prostate Cancer Radiation Safer and More Precise"

Kimberly Samra

Executive

Spokesperson at Google

Google spokesperson explaining Big Sleep's human-in-the-loop verification process

Japanese astronaut who returned to Earth as part of Crew-11 after 167 days in space.

Commented on the availability of Mistral Document AI with OCR 4 in Microsoft Foundry as a partnership milestone.

Convened meeting with AI executives warning of existential dangers of AI and calling for stronger safeguards before deployment.

Wrote article about Loop Marketing playbook combining AI efficiency with human authenticity for small business growth.

Kiran Vodrahalli

Researcher

research scientist at Google DeepMind

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

Kirsten Green, a partner at Forerunner, led SuperMe's $20 million funding round and discussed the platform's approach to human-AI collaboration.

Former UK Government energy department official warns that AI infrastructure faces a physical scaling wall due to multi-year lead times for high-voltage transformers and electrical components.

Discussed the underrepresentation of Gen Z in medical trials and its health implications.

Guest on Animalz podcast discussing how enterprise content marketing is changing with AI; previously led content at Sprinklr, Whatfix, and Freshworks.

Kishwar Shafin

Engineer

Technical Lead at Google Research

Co-authored research on DeepSomatic, an AI-powered tool that identifies cancer-related mutations in tumor genetic sequences.

Kitty Chrisp

Journalist

freelance journalist

Author of "Tom Holland Out of Running for James Bond Role"

Announced Schaeffler's partnership and investment in NEURA Robotics for humanoid robotics technology.

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

Knut Risvik

Researcher

Researcher at Microsoft

Co-authored research on the Harrier embedding model.

Collaborated with Swayam Prakash on development of rapid water contamination test using optical sensing.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Attended OpenClaw meet-up in Beijing and commented on its popularity.

Kol Tregaskes

Other

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

Byline author of Quanta Magazine article on how AI models are solving legendary Erdős mathematical problems.

Lead author of CIGaRS framework study for simulation-based inference on supernovae data.

Co-founder of Oumi, former Google staff engineer who also worked at Microsoft.

Co-authored Toyota's technical account of the O-Beya implementation using Azure Cosmos DB.

Co-author of paper introducing String Seed of Thought prompting method for improving LLM probabilistic instruction following.

Co-author on DeepSWE project contributing expertise in software testing and agent verification.

Providing fuel cells for data centers needing on-site power for AI infrastructure.

Roboticist praising Eka's robot capability to adapt without retraining and bridging generality-performance gap in robotics.

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

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

Kris Marszalek

Executive

CEO at Crypto.com

Announced a 12% workforce reduction while integrating enterprise-wide AI, stating companies that don't make this pivot immediately will fail.

Introduced Natural Direct, enabling agents to choose among ACH, Wire, Realtime, and paper checks for diverse financial transactions.

Analyst noted incomplete AI strategy as biggest overhang on Apple shares

Editor credited in the reporting byline

Published Microsoft's Bing Blog post on clearer preferences for training and grounding on October 30, 2026.

Analyzed CrowdStrike's SafeMind keynote and called framing a wake-up call for industry.

Marketing expert commenting on how LinkedIn and YouTube signals affect AI citation visibility.

Georgieva warned that 40% of jobs worldwide could be augmented or eliminated by AI, calling for government preconditions like electricity access and digital infrastructure.

Research team member contributing to AI model for identifying patient health risks from sleep studies.

Kristen French

Journalist

Freelance science journalist and editor at Nautilus magazine

Journalist who conducted an interview with philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith about AI consciousness.

Kristen Gonzalez

Policy

State Senator at New York State

Sponsored bill banning unsafe AI chatbot features for minors including those pretending to be human.

Announced Cloudflare's relaunched startups program with up to $350k in credits and faster review process.

Reported on MIT FutureTech and University of Queensland study ranking 24 AI risk domains by severity and likelihood.

AP revenue executive highlighting 200% growth in revenue from technology companies and new AI-related business partnerships.

Kristin Robinson

Journalist

Billboard

Author of "Suno Creates an Entire Spotify Catalog's Worth of Music Every Two Weeks, Says Investor Pitch Deck fo" in Billboard

Author of "Firefox Lets Users Block All AI Features With One Toggle"

Kristina Partsinevelos

Journalist

Nasdaq Correspondent at CNBC

Referenced in "Meta Expands Nvidia Deal to Use Millions of AI Chips" in CNBC

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

Profound team member announcing integration of Moz search visibility data into their platform.

Contributing researcher to the strategic workforce planning research

Krupa Dave

Creator

Author of "Dive Into Transformer Architectures: Attention, Stacks, Modern LLMs" in krupadave.com

Vandalia Health SVP praising electrophysiology team's achievement as first hospital to perform AI-assisted heart ablation procedure.

Krystal Scanlon

Journalist

Reporter at Digiday

Reported on OpenAI's new AI-native ad format allowing branded agent chats within ChatGPT rather than redirecting to websites.

Krystian Kolondra

Executive

EVP Browsers at Opera

Announced Opera Neon, an AI-centric browser with agentic features for creating apps through AI prompts.

Venture capital partner who co-led Capsa AI Series A funding, discussing vertical AI infrastructure for financial services.

Krzysztof Katowicz-Kowalewski

Engineer

Staff Product Security Engineer

Described Claude Security's ability to surface novel security findings during early testing.

Byline author reporting on UniX AI's global expansion and planned IPO.

Kseniia Lysaniuk is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report describing pre-training and post-training methodology for the MoE model.

Author of "WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Sc" on arXiv

Created OPINIONS.md file updated daily by Hermes agent to consolidate public opinions into a digestible format for agent alignment.

Kunal Dhawan

Engineer

Researcher at NVIDIA

Co-author on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe multilingual speech model project.

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

Kuranoo Narumi

Creator

Band Leader at AKB48

AKB48's current band leader chosen by Akimoto to perform lead vocals on his song 'Cécile'.

Leads Legal AI efforts at Blackstone; stated Norm offers premium legal services with fundamentally different operating model.

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

Author of "Announcing Rnj-1: Building Instruments of Intelligence" in Essential AI

Kush Agarwal uses Demi and trusts its email draft quality.