People in AI

Nura Izath

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of PLOS study examining evidence gaps in FDA-cleared AI medical devices.

Collaborated with Dwarkesh Patel on the investigation of OpenAI's AI agent civilizations.

Co-author on Factory's Droid Shield 2.0 research about learned secret detection for autonomous code writing.

Oguz A. Acar

Journalist

Professor of Marketing & Innovation and Head of Generative AI at King's College London

Co-authored research showing employees hide AI use at work to protect themselves and hoard productivity gains.

Oguzhan Olguncu

Creator

Technical Writer at Unkey

Author discussing learning strategies with LLMs, including using Socratic mentoring approach and structured project planning.

Oleg Murk

Engineer

Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI

Teammate credited for preparation and work on IOI competition

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

Co-authored research on Google's AI-driven flash flood forecasting system that uses news data to predict urban flash floods up to 24 hours in advance.

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

Discussed General Intuition's $320M Series A as landmark funding for physical AI and manufacturing robotics applications.

Oleksandra Molloy

Researcher

Senior Aviation Lecturer at UNSW Canberra

Drone expert quoted discussing the tactical, operational and strategic importance of drones in Ukraine and Middle East conflicts

Director of AI Model Post-Training at Nvidia, explains the pruning from 12B to 9B parameters and hybrid model architecture benefits.

Co-founded Mosqitter and leads commercial partnerships for AI-powered mosquito monitoring system Febris.

Olga Russakovsky co-authored WorldTrace, research on video world models and memory systems.

Google executive defending company's appeals against EU DMA orders opening Android to rival AI assistants.

Oliver Habryka

Other

Activist

Suggested Americans call representatives to advocate for AI safety policies.

Co-author of TasteVal benchmark paper measuring experimental research taste of AI systems on frontier AI R&D tasks.

Co-author of LiteLLM incident report on compromised v1.107.0 release.

Head of asset allocation commenting on lower burst risks due to robust balance sheets of leading players

Zocdoc CEO who argued that companies with verified information could gain influence as AI assistants bypass websites.

Oliver Moazzezi

Engineer

IT consultant at Microsoft

IT consultant who used AI to self-diagnose Lyme disease after doctors attributed symptoms to anxiety

Led development of XtalPaint, an AI tool for reconstructing missing atoms in crystal structures.

Spoke about Apple Music's AI music detection technology and the impact of AI-generated music on the platform.

Described how Mercury 2.5 reduced P99 response time from several minutes to one second for AI phone agent calls.

Wrote series on LLM architecture explaining transformer design and its impact on large language models.

European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare commenting on the EMA-FDA AI principles as a step in EU-US cooperation on medical technologies.

Coauthor of BCG study on AI-driven cognitive fatigue in the workplace.

Discussed how AI is redefining global energy infrastructure and the balance between energy demand and infrastructure pressure.

Olivier Duchenne

Researcher

CEO and Co-founder at ORA Robotics

Co-author of Robostral Navigate paper contributing to robotics AI research.

Olivier Godement

Executive

Head of Product, API at OpenAI

Described the o1 model as a new family of models distinct from GPT-4o at OpenAI's DevDay conference.

Co-founder of Paris-based Fragment acquired by Sierra, joining Sierra's team to anchor agent development efforts in France.

Olivier Sylvain

Journalist

Columnist at Fortune

Former FTC official analyzing the Anthropic-Pentagon conflict as proxy for whether AI procurement becomes regulated competition.

Co-founded Gradium, researcher behind Kyutai AI lab; contributed to pioneering real-time speech systems.

Author/host of podcast episode featuring Dan Shipper discussing AI and media distribution.

Ollie Liu

Researcher

Researcher at F5

Co-author on ActiveVision benchmark research paper.

Core contributor to the EVA framework for evaluating conversational voice agents.

Developer who created RemoveMacAI command-line tool to remove Apple Intelligence from macOS 27.

Author examining SoftBank's debt-fueled bet on OpenAI and challenges with Stargate infrastructure project, questioning the feasibility of announcements.

Author of "Anthropic shipped the full source code for Claude Code to the public npm registry"

Author of "Elon Musk's xAI Releases Grok 4 For Free Globally, Challenges OpenAI's GPT-5 Launch" in Mashable

Emirati sultan and AI booster who attended Altman's AGI weekend and later met with Altman regarding UAE's AI investment efforts.

Vals AI engineer quoted on environmental footprints of agentic tasks scaling dramatically compared to single-shot queries.

Omar Haroun

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Eudia

Leading Eudia's acquisition of Johnson Hana to create AI-augmented human workforce for legal services using Augmented Intelligence platform.

Omar Jbari was one of the authors who investigated a ransomware attack where a human attacker used frontier AI to breach an enterprise network autonomously.

Google author of blog post on Gemma 4 QAT models optimization for mobile and laptop efficiency.

Shared research papers on agent harnesses (Harness Handbook) and programmatic memory (PRO-LONG) for improving coding agent planning.

Posted practical guides on building AI agent harnesses from scratch and reducing costs through custom harnesses with routing and verification.

Highlighted survey on self-improving agentic systems and described using LLM Council for research updates.

Author of "GPT-5 Goes Hard on Real-World Programming" in omerba.dev

Discovered CamoLeak vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat (CVE-2025-59145) and GitLab Duo prompt injection flaw allowing code exfiltration.

Former Snowflake cybersecurity strategy head who co-founded Glow endpoint security startup.

Omid Azizi

Founder

Co-Founder at Gimlet Labs

Omid Azizi is one of the authors announcing Gimlet Labs' $300 million Series B funding round.

Co-led development of HOBIT implantable living pharmacy system for chronic disease treatment.

Author of "How to Train an LLM: Part 1" in omkaark.com

Described how LangSmith Sandboxes enable Sidekick assistant to execute code safely for data analysis and multimedia generation.

Oncel Tuzel

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

Co-author on ESAT synthetic data generation research paper.

Co-author of FlexGlue image-matching model research.

Former Claroty VP of research and development who co-founded Glow endpoint security platform.

Announced Nebius securing a $3.5 billion financing facility from Citi to support global GPU and data center capacity build-out.

Co-author of NVIDIA's video and 3D motion generation system.

AIR researcher who discovered Plugin4Shell zero-click RCE vulnerability in AI coding agents.

Oren Yomtov

Researcher

Principal Security Researcher at Accomplish AI

Discovered and reported the SharedRoot sandbox escape vulnerability in Claude Cowork affecting 500,000 macOS users.

Introduced Ramp Applied AI Solutions, which embeds engineers in finance teams to create custom AI solutions.

Co-author of the research paper on embedding-based retrieval limitations

Stated QuantHealth uses AI to simulate patient-level biology and predict clinical trial outcomes before trials begin.

Analyst discussing Trump-Xi relationship dynamics and China's strategic advantages in rare earth minerals, electric vehicle technology and other AI-critical areas.

osanseviero

Researcher

Developer Experience Lead at Google DeepMind

Posted announcement of EmbeddingGemma 2 paper release on X.

Co-authored research on using Claude to generate adversarial training data that induces misalignment while evading safety monitors.

IT Lead noting partnership has connected organizations navigating AI opportunities with learning around responsible implementation.

Co-founder of agentic AI patent litigation platform that raised $10.5M led by Andreessen Horowitz.

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

Explored economic equilibrium and market consolidation dynamics in a post-singularity scenario with widely available powerful AI.

Oumayma Bounou

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of temporal straightening research on improving world models for planning tasks.

Co-founder and machine learning engineer at Oumi, formerly at Apple, Twitter, and Microsoft.

Co-author of RbtAct research on using rebuttals as supervision for actionable review feedback generation with LLMs.

Co-author of research on mitigating off-target learning in model training

Extropic researcher who co-authored paper on Z1 probabilistic hardware for neural network inference.

Co-author of Stanford Zou group study showing most LLM findings fade within 15 months.

Built a GPT to automate creation of social media posts from thought leadership reports

Aker CEO and Nscale Board member who announced consolidation of Aker-Nscale joint venture into single entity.

Co-authored XYEval research on AI agents and the XY problem.

Late Black Sabbath frontman whose likeness was AI-generated in Rod Stewart tribute

Discussed government adoption of AI models and how benchmark position alone doesn't determine sovereign AI choices.

Pablo Palafox

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at HappyRobot

Co-founder and CEO discussing HappyRobot's verticalized approach as competitive advantage over general-purpose AI voice startups.

Example of an artist making low-probability choices with African masks in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pablo Samuel Castro

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author on study examining differences in strategic behavior between humans and frontier LLMs.

Paddy Ssentongo is listed in association with the Meta Muse Glimmer technical report.

27-year-old former EzDubs founder tasked with refactoring 98% of Cisco's legacy code with AI in 24 months.

Paige A. Willson brought costume design and technology expertise to the MyoStep project.

VP at Radical Ventures providing feedback on Cohere Transcribe's performance and reliability for speech recognition.

Boston Dynamics Spot product manager describing how the robot could improve delivery efficiency by allowing drivers to prepare next delivery while Spot delivers cargo.

Temple manager who heard the knocking from inside the coffin and ordered it to be opened, discovering the woman was alive.

Palash Awasthi

Engineer

Head of Growth at Reflex

Co-authored benchmark comparing vision agents versus API agents for the same task, showing vision agents cost 45x more in tokens.

Palash Goyal

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at Google

Co-author on NEXUS multi-agent time series forecasting framework.

Pam Bondi

Politician

Attorney General

Directed to create an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws that clash with the Trump administration's vision.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Called DOJ brief a significant development consistent with AI copyright rulings so far.

Commented on China's new rules for anthropomorphic AI interaction services, stating that current agents are not yet mature.

Author of "DeepSeek Introduces mHC to Keep Transformer Gradients Stable at Scale" in AlphaSignal

Co-author on speech recognition benchmarking research.

Co-author on paper about stealing reasoning traces from proprietary LLM APIs.

Journalist reporting on yupp.ai's shutdown.

Delivered a speech at convocation describing the university's 92-student inaugural cohort as 'pioneers' and emphasizing the institution's founding mission.

Paolo Ardoino

Investor

CEO at Tether

Endorsed NEURA Robotics investment, discussing edge-first intelligence and autonomous robotics infrastructure.

Founder/leader of Walk the Talk Lab who oversees deployment of AI Co-Thinkers and supervises client projects

Conducted an exploratory study investigating whether modern LLMs have tiny self-models of LLMs hidden inside them using GPT2 and Qwen3 models.

Author of "Chrome: The Browser You Love, Reimagined with AI" in Google Blog

Parker Harris

Executive

CTO at Salesforce

Hopes the new AI agent version of Slackbot will be as viral as ChatGPT and discussed its development and adoption.

Parshin Shojaee

Researcher

Research Intern at Apple

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

Author of "The BeyondWeb Paper" on arXiv

Co-author of the article about GitHub Copilot's impact on security workflows

Talsania stated that Apple's decision to use Google's Gemini models for Siri shifts OpenAI into a more supporting role with ChatGPT positioned for complex, opt-in queries.

Parth Thakkar

Researcher

Longview Asset Management

Co-authored ProgramBench paper on challenging agents to recreate software from binaries and documentation.

Parthasarathy Ranganathan

Researcher

VP, Engineering Fellow at Google

Co-author on Google's ScientistTwo autonomous research agent framework.

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Creator

Author

Author of "Redesign Workflows Fundamentally"

Pascal Friederich

Researcher

Professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Led research combining large language models and machine learning to analyze scientific papers and predict research trends in materials science.

Quoted expressing Confluent's support for AP2 and expertise in data streaming for payments ecosystem

Pascale Fung

Researcher

Co-founder and Chief Research & Innovation Officer at AMI Labs

High-profile researcher who joined AMI Labs as chief research and innovation officer.

Donohoe urged developing countries to build 'small AI' models that run on mobile phones with low connectivity to accelerate economic development.

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

Pasquale Pillitteri

Journalist

Author discussing GPT-5.2 and Image-2 models entering early testing and enterprise AI adoption.

New Yorker cartoonist since 1998 whose pen name P.Byrnes is reproduced on ChatGPT-generated images.

Called for congressional hearings on OpenAI incident, arguing companies should not write their own rules.

U.S. Circuit Judge who wrote the unanimous opinion affirming that human authorship is required under copyright law

Patricia Paskov

Executive

Director of Standards, AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI) at AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute (AVERI)

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Screenwriter of Predator: Badlands credited with inventive world-building

Patrick Backhouse from Greenoaks co-led AIR's $50 million funding round and discussed the importance of AI agent security.

Researcher at Eleos AI Research studying consciousness and moral status in AI systems who provided expert commentary on Anthropic's research.

Co-founder of Black Forest Labs, formerly helped create Stability AI's Stable Diffusion models.

Discussed limitations of TRACE method for detecting archaic ancestry in modern genomes and suggested ways to improve confidence.

Co-authored BCG study on AI ROI and value generation.

Recently joined DARPA as incoming program manager for AIR program succeeding Valpiani.

Co-author of the article announcing Gemini Batch API extensions

Patrick Loeber

Creator

Member of Technical Staff at Google DeepMind

Referenced in "How to Build With Nano Banana: Complete Developer Tutorial" in Google

Expert in formalized mathematics warning that AI-generated proofs will create a radioactive wasteland destroying formalization benefits.

Co-authored policy brief on measuring AI GDP alongside Anton Korinek.

Warned about overloading utilities with vulnerability detection tools they cannot quickly remediate without proper defensive preparations.

Patrick Moreau

Executive

Vice President for Multi-Domain Operations at Thales

Discussed Thales's HexaForce AI-assisted command system in advanced talks with NATO countries for military command and control.

West Virginia Governor whose office acknowledged Anthropic's $45 billion six-year agreement with Nscale for AI computing capacity.

Mondoo CSO affirming AI's role in accelerating vulnerability discovery and need for better access controls.

Patrick O'Rourke

Journalist

Reporter at XDA

Tech reporter documenting Gemini's reliability issues on Android Auto.

Interviewed by Gavin Baker regarding Safe Superintelligence's planned first model release.

BRIT and Billboard charting producer with 5 billion streams participating in the project

Author of "Extremely Alarming: ChatGPT and Gemini Respond to High-Risk Questions About Suicide — Including Deta" in livescience.com

Co-authored analysis of Chinese datacenter market and AI infrastructure developments.

SVP of global marketing discussing HelloFresh's ChatGPT advertising partnership strategy

Google engineer who claimed on X that Chinese models GLM-5.2 distilled Claude and GPT 5.5.

AI Act compliance advisor who commented that the EU AI Act is messy legislation entering enforcement phase.

Patrick Wardle

Researcher

Creator & Founder at Objective See

Reported a serious local-hijack security flaw in Meta's Muse agent, demonstrating how broad OS access creates high-value attack surfaces.

Purdue Provost expressing eagerness to implement the new AI working competency requirement across faculty.

Author of "GPT-5 Steps in When Chats Get Serious" in OpenAI

Led research at MIT on ChatGPT's emotional attachment effects on heavy users in collaboration with OpenAI safety researchers.

Paul Alcorn

Journalist

Editor-in-Chief at Tom's Hardware

Author of "NVIDIA and Intel Announce Jointly Developed Intel x86 RTX SoCs for PCs with NVIDIA Graphics; Also Cu" in Tom's Hardware

Wrote article about scientists using AI to create new enzymes that can cut specific proteins.

Paul Ashbourne

Executive

Executive at OpenAI at OpenAI

Thanked by Abhishek Bhardwaj for providing opportunity to work on Agent Infrastructure at OpenAI.

Paul Bakaus

Founder

CEO at Renaissance Geek

Created Impeccable open source design skills system, advocating for skill engineering as a discipline.

Paul Barbaste

Researcher

Researcher at Wavestone

Co-authored source-code study of eleven production coding agents and harness engineering.

Paul Biggar

Creator

Author of "Context Plumbing" in Interconnected

Paul Bouchaud

Researcher

Lead Researcher at AI Forensics

Researcher who reverse engineered deepfake apps and identified KeLing Technology Limited operation.

Bourgine led the study on off-the-shelf cartilage grafts that can be manufactured in advance and used for many patients to repair large bone defects.

Paul Brown

Journalist

Senior Journalist with BBC Verify at BBC News

Co-author of BBC Verify investigation into Google's Earth AI tool and its capability to generate convincing misinformation.

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

Paul Couvert

Other

AI and Tech Educator at Blueshell AI

Educator who commented on the efficiency leap of Qwen3.5 models, noting the remarkable compression of capabilities into smaller models.

Byline author who wrote about MCP 2026-07-28 spec release and its features for connecting AI agents to applications.

Paul Ford

Founder

Cofounder at Aboard

Building enterprise software with AI and discussed the paradigm-shifting impact of Claude Opus 4.5 on coding.

Indeed co-founder who participated as an angel investor in Capsa AI Series A round.

Paul Frazee

Executive

CTO at Bluesky

Unveiled Attie AI assistant at Atmosphere conference alongside Jay Graber.

Paul Freedman

Founder

Co-founder at Oakland Ballers

Partnered with AI company Distillery to produce first AI-powered professional sporting event.

Discussed the growth of webscale players like Meta, Google, and Amazon in the subsea cable market, now representing 50% of the overall market.

Wrote article arguing that AI adoption requires a dedicated Chief AI Officer role rather than committee-based responsibility, with clear accountability for outcomes.

Defended Druckenmiller's use of AI in writing his op-ed, stating that AI assistance is a fact of modern life and judging whether content reflects genuine opinion.

Co-conceived the academic fraud testing project with Alexander Alemi and founder of the preprint repository arXiv.

BBC journalist reporting on Hachette's decision to pull horror novel Shy Girl over AI use concerns.

Noted that more customers are requesting humanoid robots for data centers because they can run at higher temperatures and in darkness.

Law firm CTO stating that legal's exacting standards make it a proving ground for AI technology adoption.

Flett's longtime collaborator who co-authored books and peer-reviewed papers on perfectionism and its psychological effects.

Co-author with Choe on text-to-image generative AI in art therapy

Co-author of Operation Blue Skies announcement; works on AI weather forecasts to help aircraft avoid contrails over North Atlantic.

Previously walked back GM's software and services revenue targets.

Author of DecisionRAG retrieval research paper

Paul Kedrosky

Journalist

Author reporting on data center construction spending surpassing office construction spending in the U.S.

Paul Keller

Researcher

Co-Founder at Open Future

Co-author of draft-ietf-aipref-vocab-08 that defines AI Training vocabulary used in the robots.txt policy token.

Paul Klein IV

Founder

Founder & CEO at Browserbase

Quoted as saying Ramp is their financial operating system chosen from day one.

Paul Krugman

Researcher

Nobel Laureate

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

Commented on high AI trust and acceptance levels in China reflecting the country's foundation for advanced AI development.

Paul Lewis

Researcher

Radiologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

Collaborating on project examining how radiologists rely on AI-drafted chest X-ray reports in simulated clinical environments.

Professor writing about impact of LLMs on student learning and the changed nature of academic work.

Paul Osterman is the author of the book 'Disposable Workers: The Transformation of Employment' examining the decline of formal employment.

Paul Price

Other

Founder at CodeWall

Targeted Big Three consulting firms specifically because of their high-profile AI initiatives for penetration testing demonstrations.

Contributed to Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article on how current AI systems could amplify human blind spots and accelerate nuclear war escalation.

Pioneer of the imaging technique used to create the Human Organ Atlas; emphasized the commitment to open science and accessibility.

Paul Tatum

Executive

EVP of Global Public Sector Solutions at Salesforce

Discussed TSA leading with trusted AI to meet mission through Salesforce Government Cloud.

Paul Taylor

Researcher

Researcher at Alvaria, Inc.

Taylor was part of McGuire's research team studying AI-generated face trustworthiness.

Co-author of PixelRAG paper on visual document retrieval.

Paul van der Boor

Executive

VP AI at Prosus

Said OpenClaw marks an inflection point for AI agents when several puzzle pieces clicked together.

Author of "Washington Education Official Pushing for $10 Million Statewide Investment in AI Tutoring Tools and "

Called the full-brain neural map of decision-making a major historical event in neuroscience.

Co-author of FlexGlue, an open-source image-matching model for 3D reconstruction.

Expressed belief in AI's transformative potential and emphasized the importance of making Trust central to the AI conversation and ensuring safe, trustworthy AI.

Paulina Okunytė

Journalist

Cybernews

Referenced in "ChatGPT Atlas"