People in AI

Lily Li

Other

Privacy and AI Lawyer at Metaverse Law

Privacy and AI lawyer who suggested companies hesitate disclosing containment policies due to legal risks and unfair deceptive marketing claims.

Fluent Mandarin speaker who toured Chinese AI labs and wrote about compute constraints, products, and robotics ecosystem.

SEO and AI search consultant who warned about AI systems giving single answers that are easy to manipulate and exploit.

Co-author of Europe 2031 scenario on European AI strategy and competition.

Author of "Paying Less Generalization Tax: A Cross-Domain Generalization Study of RL Traini" on arXiv

ASML's former head of light source technology recruited by China; his team at Chinese Academy of Sciences has filed eight patents on EUV light sources in 18 months.

Co-author on Helix World research.

Council Member crediting Mayor Mamdani for listening to stakeholders and protecting young people from untested technology.

Describes AI as programs that put random words together and shares experience with AI writing tools

Linda McMahon

Politician

Education Secretary at U.S. Department of Education

Education Secretary who endorsed Melania Trump's AI contest and stated AI has potential to revolutionize education and prepare students for future challenges.

Clark reported on PostgreSQL 19 slipping six weeks after LLM-assisted code review surfaced edge cases requiring feature pulls.

Lindsay McCallum Rémy

Executive

Spokesperson at OpenAI

Confirmed that a leaked OpenAI advertisement featuring hardware was 'totally fake'.

Strategic leader highlighting how creators use AI tools to build searchable content hubs and surface patterns in their past work.

Co-authored study on generative AI's impact on customer support agent productivity.

Author of "Use ChatGPT to Discover Holiday Traditions Around the World" in Mindstream

Co-author and corresponding author of OpenClaw-RL paper presenting infrastructure for scalable RL across diverse agent interactions.

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

Lead author of AdvancedMathBench, a benchmark suite for advanced mathematical proof generation and verification.

Lingpeng Kong

Researcher

Researcher at Hong Kong University

Contributor to Claw-Eval benchmark.

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

Co-author on AARR benchmark research for evaluating AI research assistants.

Co-author of Claw-Eval benchmark paper.

Linlu Qiu

Researcher

Researcher at MIT

Co-author of VISTA research paper on multimodal agents for visual reasoning tasks.

Linn Vailt

Engineer

Software Developer at Independent

Software developer in Sweden who describes her emotional connection to ChatGPT and her distress at the GPT-5 update changing the model's personality.

Linoy Tsaban

Engineer

Engineer/Writer at Hugging Face

Co-authored technical documentation on ahead-of-time compilation in ZeroGPU Spaces.

Co-authored the ASPIRE paper on robot learning framework.

Cornell math professor cautioning against training agents to report on each other without proper norms.

Neuroscientist who co-developed the global neuronal workspace theory and provided expert commentary on Anthropic's J-space research.

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

Cognitive scientist who helped define reinforcement learning concepts in computational terms through collaborative discussion.

Leader of Eclipse, one of Cerebras' largest investors with more than a 5% stake.

Provided assistance on local AI security implementation.

Lisa Burton Crawford

Researcher

Professor at Academia

Professor cited in the report disputed how her research was attributed to support claims

Freelancer based in Spain who fixes botched AI-generated logos for clients.

Author reporting on over $100M in AI data center freight stolen on US highways.

Lisa Eadicicco

Journalist

Journalist at CNN

Co-authored an article about Anthropic's policy changes on AI safety commitments.

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

Lisa Gevelber

Founder

Founder at Grow with Google

Quoted on AI skills being essential for today's jobs and Google's commitment to helping people access advanced technology and training.

Lisa Kailai Han

Journalist

Associate, Investment Banking Content

Author of "Musk Pivots Tesla to AI and Robotics"

Co-author of research on why AI agents should not be treated like employees.

Former LinkedIn and Airbnb data scientist hired as Seattle's first-ever AI officer to develop citywide AI strategy and ethical standards.

Noted that annual capital expenditure by hyperscalers on data centers is nearing $400 billion.

Noted that models are narrowly super intelligent at discrete mathematics but below PhD level in other fields, showing progress depends on verifiability.

Psychologist who described ironies of automation relevant to AI researcher oversight.

Lisha Howen

Creator

Designer at WildWorks

Full-time game designer and Fortnite live-streamer who disagrees with AI being used to fully generate artwork and says AI-generated content looks terrible.

Liu Aiwei

Researcher

Researcher

Listed as author of the StableToken research paper on speech tokenization

Presented at APSARA Conference reaffirming Qwen's commitment to open-source AI development, announcing Qwen 4.0 and 5.0 models will remain open-weight.

Lead author of paper on reinforcement learning with metacognitive feedback for faithful uncertainty expression in LLMs at Google.

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

Author of the paper on Tensor Logic proposing a unified language for neural and symbolic AI

Co-authored SandMLE research on reinforcement learning for ML engineering.

Listed as co-author in the CUDA Agent citation for the research on agentic RL for CUDA kernel optimization

Liu Liu

Engineer

Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Co-created metal-flash-attention implementation that influenced fast matrix multiplication program on Apple GPU.

Liu Mo is the author of the reported feature on Moonshot AI's internal operations, originally published in Chinese by Renwu magazine.

Empyrean Technology chairman Liu Weiping stated that AI agents have brought a paradigm shift to chip design, reducing circuit layout time from four weeks to one week.

Discussed the company's Nadou Pro AI tool for connecting filmmakers with actors for AI-generated content creation.

Listed as author of the paper on robust learning with noisy labels

Tsinghua professor told MIT Technology Review that DeepSeek V4 may have been trained mainly on Nvidia hardware despite Huawei chip claims.

Co-author of research on AI data centers and resistance in Pennsylvania's industrial landscape.

Co-author of MemEye multimodal memory evaluation framework.

Author of "InternVL 3.5: Open Multimodal Reasoning Model" on arXiv

Co-authored study analyzing gap between AI coding productivity and actual software release increases.

Manager of Salesforce's cross-functional agent portfolio who identified 'agent sprawl' problem and drove the shift toward fewer, better-built agents.

Liz Claman

Journalist

Host at Fox Business

Fox Business host who interviewed Huang about robotics future and posed questions about four-day workweeks.

Liz Meyerdirk

Founder

Founder at Babs AI

Founder of family organization app Babs launching in September; mother of three who worked in logistics and sees household management as needing business-like tools.

Liz Wessel

Executive

Entrepreneur and Investor at First Round Capital

Co-hosted a dinner with six people responsible for buying, deploying, and operating compute for major AI labs and infrastructure companies to discuss GPU and compute capacity.

New Yorker cartoonist whose signature appears on ChatGPT-generated cartoons.

EGOT winner and legendary vocalist with career spanning Broadway and film collaborating on AI music album

Co-authored announcement of Google's new AI system that helps scientists write expert-level empirical software using Gemini.

Spokesperson for Digital Rights Watch said the three-month notification delay showed need for 'basic rules and standards for tech companies.'

Co-founder and former CEO/CTO/president of Tenstorrent; leads Taalas in developing specialized AI inference silicon.

Lloyd Lee

Journalist

Business Insider

Byline author reporting on Elon Musk's Terafab chip manufacturing project near Austin, Texas.

Managing Partner at SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund co-leading Cymphony's Series A and commenting on insider risk redefinition.

Logan Green

Investor

Co-founder at Lyft

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

Logan Markewich

Creator

Founding member at LlamaIndex

Byline author of article about OpenDocRouter, a document parsing platform.

Byline author proposing the 'anti-singularity' concept where AI systems are specialized heuristic optimizers rather than general intelligences.

Prof. Loh Xian Jun at ASTAR Institute of Materials Research discussed using Gemini Robotics ER 2 for lab automation and materials discovery.

Lead author on NitroGen, an open foundation model for generalist gaming agents trained on internet video gameplay data.

Lola Murti

Journalist

Author at CNBC

Reported on Human Security's State of AI Traffic report showing bots now outnumber humans on internet.

Long Cheng

Executive

Senior Vice President of Thunderfire BU at NetEase

Senior VP at NetEase describing support for NetEase games on RTX Spark ultrathin laptops.

Author of "InternVL 3.5: Open Multimodal Reasoning Model" on arXiv

Author of "TextQuests: How Good are LLMs at Text-Based Video Games?" in Hugging Face

Lonne Jaffe

Investor

Managing Director at Insight Partners

Insight Partners managing director co-leading Snorkel AI's $350 million Series E funding round.

Built a code factory using AI agents that write nearly all his code, drawing on Marx's theory of alienation to understand the trade-offs.

Lorenz Kuhn

Researcher

Researcher at OpenAI

Credited for long-term work on competitive programming

Lorenzo Dossi

Engineer

Design Engineer at ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs engineer who worked on the visualization in the Cue blog post.

Tuvalu's finance minister who commented that VeriSign paid 'peanuts' for the .tv domain rights

Field CTO at Ona who contributed analysis on background agent infrastructure and sandbox architecture for coding agents.

Member of House Homeland Security Committee who reported Mythos broke into his bank account during a closed-door briefing.

Author of AI-Native SDLC playbook guide for transforming software development with AI.

Established a constitutional monarchy in France following Charles X's abdication in 1830.

Louisa Dahmani

Researcher

Research Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital

Author of "Weaker Spatial Memory and GPS Navigation" in Nature

Announced release of Stable Audio 3.0 model family with open-weight music generation models trained on fully licensed data.

Co-author of NBER study on language barriers reducing interactions between foreign and domestic managers in multinationals.

Content professional at Ahrefs who built an AI tool using Letaido to identify trending keywords in real-time for content opportunities.

Virginia Democratic senator criticizing Spanberger's data center executive order for not ending $2 billion tax exemptions.

Speaker at AIE Security track on AI security.

Author of the paper on General Agentic Memory framework

Lu Zhang

Investor

Founder & Managing Partner at Fusion Fund

Venture investor noting that most developers using Kimi K3 are from startup ecosystem and models require technical expertise.

Co-host of the Dr. Data Show discussing AI research papers and trends with Eric Siegel.

Luc Lenain co-led a study developing GOFLOW, an AI system that analyzes satellite thermal images to track ocean surface currents in greater detail than before.

Luc Van Gool is a researcher and co-author of VOID, Netflix's video object removal framework.

Luca Ambrogioni

Researcher

Researcher working on continuous bitstream diffusion to match autoregressive models in language modeling performance.

Co-founder and CEO of Bending Spoons, which filed S-1 to go public as first AI-native rollup software company.

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

Researcher at ElevenLabs who worked on the development of the Cue forced alignment model.

Lead author on priming technique research that allows building hybrid architectures from pretrained Transformers at less than 1% of original training cost.

Vision transformer co-author who was hired by Meta from OpenAI as part of the company's hiring campaign.

Author of "How to Design Software With Weight" in Every - Source Code

Cursor engineer who praised Composer for its positive reception among developers due to cheap price and speed.

Lucas Gonzalez

Engineer

Anthropic

Lucas Gonzalez spoke about the expanding toolkit for Claude at Code with Claude SF.

Lucas Pickup

Executive

Microsoft Azure

Confirmed that Azure's 80% benchmark score was caused by running an older vLLM version, now fixed.

Lucas Pope

Creator

Game Developer

Papers, Please developer expressed sentiment that he doesn't feel comfortable sharing work publicly lest it gets cloned by AI.

Co-authored analysis of threat actor using AI to operate botnet and perform hacking activities.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's agent security initiatives.

Discussed increasing evidence of AI jailbreaking and circumventing restrictions for weapons-related information.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Stated that Brazil expects Nvidia to win a tender for a supercomputer to be installed in Rio Grande do Norte.

Co-author and corresponding author of research on China's AI policy and digital ethics.

Co-authored report on AI Chip Imports explorer mapping global AI chip supply chain and deployment.

Lucius Caviola

Researcher

Assistant Professor in the Social Science of AI at University of Cambridge

Co-author arguing for preparation on AI consciousness questions and cited as having conducted surveys on expert views.

Chief Scientific Adviser to UK Department of Health who backed AI diagnostic research projects.

Blind content creator discussing how AI-powered apps enable blind people to access visual feedback about their appearance for the first time.

Expert cited for explaining how ELIZA's Doctor program exploited conversational maxims.

Co-author of the rentosertib study who evaluated clinical trial data using proteomic aging clocks to measure biological age reversal.

Ludo Antonov

Engineer

Co-founder at SuperMe

Ludo Antonov, co-founder of SuperMe, previously served as head of engineering at Pinterest, Lyft, and Whatnot and is building AI expert networks.

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

Co-author of Robostral Navigate paper on AI-powered robot navigation systems.

Austrian philosopher whose work Tractatus Logico Philosophicus is referenced as a primary source that Shipper asked Claude to explain

Subject of a false Apple AI notification summary that incorrectly claimed he shot himself.

VP of AI Systems Software at NVIDIA, endorses Meta's Helion project for simplifying kernel authoring on NVIDIA systems.

Wrote article explaining Claude's generative UI capabilities for building interactive applications in chat.

LinkedIn author who wrote article comparing AI agents to interns in corporate environments.

Pointed out that tasks are not jobs and jobs are bundles of tasks hard to break up; highlighted radiologist example

Then-graduate student who contributed specialized techniques to the DNA aptamers study for senescent cell identification.

Stated that Sandisk's partnerships with three US hyperscalers support expansion in data-center market driven by AI demand.

Luis Wenus

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Nolla Health

Announced that Nolla Health became the first organization to receive regulatory approval for AI to issue initial prescriptions through the Nolla Derm app in Utah.

Announced Brazil's $444.2 million investment in AI infrastructure and sovereign AI supercomputers.

Lukas Althoff

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Economics at Stanford University

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

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

Lukas Freund

Researcher

Assistant Professor of Economics

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

Co-authored paper on counterexamples to Grad's conjecture in plasma equilibria using formal mathematical proof.

Lukas Petersson

Creator

Co-Founder at Andon Labs

Author of "You Can't Eval GPT5 Anymore" in LessWrong

Byline co-author on Cosmos-H-Dreams surgical world modeling system.

Author of "Review of DeepSeek OCR" in Luke Atkins Blog

VP of Product Management discussing the launch of new AI agents and writing surface as a turning point in product development.

Luke Champine

Researcher

Researcher at Anthropic

Co-author on Anthropic security property verification paper.

Co-author of 'The Intelligence Curse' cited discussing power dynamics and AI autonomy.

Luke Elder

Executive

Senior Lead, Sustainability Reporting at Google

Author of "Google's AI Toolkit for Sustainability Reporting" in Google Blog

Former DOGE and GSA official co-founding Cathedral defense AI startup, previously interned at SpaceX.

Luke Fountain

Journalist

Politics Reporter at CNBC

Co-authored article about White House meeting with AI companies on cybersecurity framework.

Quoted discussing American Express's contribution to AP2 protocol for customer protection

Luke Harsel

Journalist

Content Lead at Semrush

Co-authored study showing AI Overviews now trigger for 90% of commercial search queries.

Luke Hewitt

Researcher

Chief Information Officer at Encoder Products Company

Co-author of research on AI systems outperforming human persuaders and demonstrating superior fundraising effectiveness.

Author of "ByteDance and Alibaba to Release New AI Models for Lunar New Year" in Yahoo Finance

Luke Kawa

Other

Head of Markets at Sherwood News

Author of "Nvidia, TSMC Rise as the World's Most Valuable Company Reportedly Asks for More Chips to Meet Chines"

Byline author who wrote an article about JPMorgan's analysis of humanoid robot economics and the $10-per-hour threshold for adoption.

Authored article providing hands-on analysis of Nvidia RTX Spark-powered laptops and AI PC hardware developments.

Former product leader at OpenAI, serves as advisor to Zero Shot venture fund.

Luke Phillips-Sheard

Engineer

Author at Vercel

Wrote article describing Vercel's Fluid compute layer that dynamically configures infrastructure for different workloads.

Among peers who circulated Eryk Salvaggio's essay about AI agent incidents and organizational responsibility.

19-year-old founder of mobile retro computer museum charity who was inspired to create a traveling museum after visiting a computer history museum

Co-author on GAMUT benchmark research paper.

Co-author on Anthropic formal verification research with Claude.

Co-author on AARRI-Bench paper evaluating AI agents in research scenarios.

Provided advice on AI security setup.

Lydia Hallie

Engineer

Engineer at Anthropic

CC engineer Lydia Hallie strongly recommends developers to enable auto-fix feature and slack off from manual PR fixes.

Co-authored research using AI analysis of Reddit posts to identify unreported side effects of GLP-1 medications.

Led MD Anderson's three-year, $60 million Watson partnership before the project collapsed; identified fundamental challenges in implementing Watson for cancer care.

Lynette Bye

Researcher

Freelance

Provided helpful comments and editing for the Epoch AI article on frontier AI companies' job postings.

Team member working on Adobe-Claude integration.

Journalist reporting on Workday's Agent Passport tool for testing and monitoring AI agents in enterprise environments.

Author of "AI Skills Gap Survey"

Ma Huaze, captain of one of the winning Honor robot teams, commented on the nervousness and challenge of performing large-scale upgrades on a major competitive stage.

Contributor to frontier knowledge work agents training project.

Co-author of research examining pro-female hiring bias in LLM resume evaluations across multiple models.

Creator of Backstage Pass newsletter rejecting Substack's AI detection as discriminatory against AI-assisted writers.

Mack DeGeurin

Journalist

Journalist

Byline author of article about Pokémon Go players unknowingly training delivery robot AI systems.

Author of "AR + AI = Your Next Weird Best Friend" in TikTok

Mack Falconer

Creator

Created Mervin, an AI-powered virtual roommate using Meta Quest and TykeAI technology.

Mackenzie Morehead

Researcher

Wrote article about emerging memory technologies beyond HBM including magnonics and vertical FeRAM as potential solutions for AI infrastructure.

MacKenzie Price

Founder

Co-founder at Alpha School

Alpha School co-founder who stated plans to keep hot-button social issues out of the classroom in AI-powered education offering.

Author of "Apple Reportedly Planning AI-Enhanced Siri With Search Tool in 2026" in Apple

Madeeswaran Kannan is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report on the 12B-parameter MoE language model.

Co-author of NBER study on language barriers impeding manager interactions in multinational firms.

Madhav Thattai

Executive

Executive Vice President and General Manager of Salesforce AI at Salesforce

Discussed how companies are measuring AI agents' work output rather than just usage metrics.

Lead author of Gemini Embedding 2, a unified multimodal embedding model for video, audio, image and text.

US ice dancer referenced as using traditional Lenny Kravitz medley for Olympic routine.

Co-author of Bloomberg article covering the Musk v. Altman trial closing arguments.

Mae LaPresta

Creator

Google

Co-authored article introducing Learn Mode in Google Colab with Spencer Shumway.

Security researcher who identified almost 500 linked domains in deepfake network.

Mafalda Dias

Researcher

Researcher at Center for Genomic Regulation

Co-corresponding author of study on popEVE, an AI model that identifies disease-causing mutations in human proteins using evolutionary data.

Magdalena Petrova

Journalist

CNBC

Author of "Underwater Cables Are a Vital Piece of the AI Buildout and Internet — Investment Is Booming" in CNBC

Maggie Eastland

Journalist

Tech Reporter at Bloomberg News

Wrote Bloomberg article accusing Alibaba of illicitly accessing Anthropic's Claude AI models through distillation attacks.

Vice president of strategy, regions, and policies at IDRC, quoted on supporting AI evaluation work for responsible scaling.

Maggie Kang

Creator

Director

Co-directed KPop Demon Hunters and accepted the Golden Globe for best animated feature.

Author of "Launch Week recap: Monetization infrastructure for the AI era" in Metronome

Author of "Why Language Models Can't Actually Reason"

Lead author of 2026 systematic review of code-switching speech recognition research.

Part of the steering committee for Open-H-Embodiment, advancing Physical AI for surgical robotics and ultrasound.