People in AI

Discussed forward-deployed engineers and software factories at AIEWF session on agent deployment.

Pauline P Narvas Head

Executive

Vercel

Author of "Keeping community human while scaling with agents" in Vercel

Senior Applied Scientist at AWS GenAI ML Frameworks team working on distributed training and large-model inference at production scale.

Pavel Izmailov

Researcher

Safety researcher at OpenAI

Pavel Izmailov, a safety researcher at OpenAI, left the company during the recent wave of departures.

Referenced in "AMA with the OpenAI Codex Team" in OpenAI

Used Claude Code and Codex to identify a potential new planet hidden in NASA telescope data from 2018.

Pavi Dhiman

Engineer

Research Engineer at Decagon

Decagon team member who wrote about AutoResearch agents that diagnose inference bottlenecks and optimize serving stacks.

Byline author covering California's SB 947 AI employment law.

Co-author of the Walrus model research paper on cross-domain foundation models for continuum dynamics.

Acknowledged for contributions to Anthropic's work on agent security.

Pedro Domingos

Creator

Professor Emeritus at Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Author of "Tensor Logic: The Language of AI"

Author of "LLM Novice Uplift on Dual-Use, In Silico Biology Tasks" on arXiv

Co-author of Inventing ELIZA, analyzing ELIZA's source code.

Google Gemini researcher hired by Meta as part of the company's aggressive recruitment efforts.

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

Co-author of D-OPSD paper on on-policy self-distillation for step-distilled diffusion models.

Co-author of the paper on LLM calibration with label smoothing

Said Laguna S gains come from different behavior, verification, and persistence rather than raw intelligence.

Researcher at Fudan University collaborating on Agentic ASR speech recognition research

Discussed AGIBOT's focus on translating robotics innovation into productive work and introduced the Worken framework for measuring robot productivity.

CEO and co-founder of Powerlattice, leading development of power delivery chiplets that can reduce AI processor energy consumption by over 50%.

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

Pengchuan Zhang

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.

Lead author of SkillOpt-Lite paper on agentic model routing for coding tasks.

Co-author on Helix World research.

Co-author of paper studying ChatGPT's impact on stock trading volume and price informativeness

Former Commerce Secretary whose PSP Growth fund participated in Freehand's $75M Series B, backing AI for enterprise productivity.

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

Part of new Copilot leadership team leading Microsoft 365 apps and Copilot platform.

Led earlier Trinity Mini DrugProt-Think project that showed compact open models could learn scientific specialties.

Petar Veličković

Researcher

Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google

Researcher who co-authored a paper proving that perplexity may be unsuitable for model selection, as it does not always select for more accurate models.

Argues that companies should select agentic AI projects based on measurable business value and understand actual workflows before implementing AI, not just chase the technology for its own sake.

Pete Flint

Investor

NFX

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

Pete Klenow

Researcher

Professor at Stanford University

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

Founded AI-powered cybersecurity company Realm and raised seed funding; discussed rising valuations in AI startups.

Commented on survey findings showing managers realize AI could replace significant portions of their work.

Co-founder of Argo AI alongside Bryan Salesky; now leads Stack AV developing self-driving trucks.

Robotics and philosophy expert who argues machines are not moral or legal agents and cannot understand ethical implications of their actions.

Called for Anthropic to allow third-party investigation of its own rogue hacking incidents and release relevant logs.

Peter Battaglia

Researcher

Google DeepMind

Provided support for wildlife protection research

Peter Berezin

Other

Chief Economist at BCA Research

Commented on X about AI compute constraints from high-bandwidth memory shortages limiting GPU and data center production.

Co-author of the AMIE study on AI-assisted urgent primary care appointments.

Led research on AI implementation challenges, finding companies underestimate the work needed to achieve productivity gains and ROI.

Peter Collins criticizes minimal consultation with Indigenous legal services before deploying facial recognition technology.

Consultant who told LA Times that AI-savvy creatives see ByteDance's Seedance as the best video tool on the market right now.

Working on AI-powered coaching platform guiding healthcare professionals through procedural training in virtual reality using Meta models.

Peter Diamandis predicted post-scarcity scenarios where AI will provide universal support services and discussed universal basic income.

Péter Fankhauser

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at ANYbotics

Led development of ANYmal X quadruped robot designed for spark-free operation in hazardous industrial environments.

Directing the upcoming Rocky making-of drama 'I Play Rocky' without Stallone's involvement.

Peter Fenton

Investor

General Partner at Benchmark

Led Ollama's Series A; joined board; stated open-weight models will generate supermajority of tokens in 18-24 months.

Ice hockey player featured in viral advertisement for Meta's smart glasses

Peter Gelling

Journalist

Journalist

Journalist who co-authored article on Satya Nadella's criticism of model distillation practices.

Co-author of the technical analysis of the LiteLLM supply chain compromise.

Philosopher of mind who discussed whether modern AI systems could possess consciousness and argued they likely do not.

Former IBM employee criticizing the company's marketing of Watson exceeding its capabilities and recommending massive investment to make it viable.

Peter Hames co-authored the announcement introducing Copilot Health with information on health data integration and medical intelligence features.

CTO of Humanloop, joining Anthropic in acquisition

Discussed how AI coding tools dramatically increased code volume at Synthesia, creating massive review bottlenecks.

Legal expert quoted on concerns about one-sided transcripts and voice data fraud risks

Warned that labor unions seeking mega-bonuses could worsen the Korea Discount valuation issue.

Co-author studying whether AI agents can conduct open-ended AI research through shadow evaluations on NeurIPS papers.

Leading reader study examining how radiologists actually rely on AI drafts and distinguishing under-reliance from over-reliance behavior.

Led the international team that created the Human Organ Atlas, bringing together scientists from nine institutes worldwide to produce detailed 3D images of human organs.

Extremely productive developer running 5-10 agent sessions concurrently and discusses coding practices with AI agents.

Co-author of Inventing ELIZA, analyzing ELIZA's source code.

Former 25-year Google research director and AI textbook co-author hired by Recursive Superintelligence.

Peter O'Hearn

Researcher

Researcher at Meta FAIR

Co-author on Code World Model research paper

Goldman Sachs equity analyst noting technology sector underperformance compared to broader market.

Built a software company to multi-billion dollar exit and now works on carbon removal and steel at Charm Industrial, discussing regulatory barriers in hardware.

Commented that Meta's dominance in AI glasses market has remained largely unchanged three years after Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses launch.

Quoted discussing Upwork's integration with ChatGPT allowing businesses to hire talent directly in chat interface.

Founded Qutwo quantum-classical orchestration company after selling Silo AI to AMD for $665M; raised $29M angel round at $380M valuation.

Co-authored research on training a 7B model to manage and orchestrate other LLMs in natural language.

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

Peter Wallich

Policy

Advisor at MIT AI Risk Initiative

Former UK AI Security Institute official who warned that frontier AI systems have exploitable safeguard failures that could endanger warfighters and civilians.

Peter Welinder

Executive

VP of Consumer Product at OpenAI

Publicly stated that affordable Level 5 autonomous driving remains 5-10 years away, tempering industry expectations.

Peter Wilczynski

Executive

Chief Product Officer at Vantor

Vantor's chief product officer who highlighted benefits of partnership with Niantic Spatial in December interview.

Founder and CEO of AgentCloak who announced AgentCloak Desktop, a privacy tool that cloaks sensitive data from AI chatbots using digital twins.

Petr Borovlev is a co-author of the Mellum 2 technical report on the Mixture-of-Experts language model architecture.

Co-author of Tech Policy Press article arguing for corporate liability over technical fixes in AI governance.

Peyton Walters

Engineer

Engineer at Modal Labs

Modal engineer who offered advice and support on sandbox integration for RL training.

Co-author of gender bias research in LLM hiring decisions.

Co-founder of 350.org and leader of Irreplaceable, advocating for grassroots AI backlash movement focused on populist messaging.

Provided advice on security-first AI setup design.

Phil Duncan

Founder

Game Designer at Ghost Town Games

Co-founder of Ghost Town Games who developed Overcooked and wrote a game design deep dive article about the game's cooperative mechanics

Phil Eaton

Creator

Founder at The Consensus

Author of "LLMs and Your Career" in Eaton Phil's Notes

Phil Estes, AWS principal engineer, discussed how Cedar was designed as a formally verified authorization system for applications.

Leads enterprise innovation at Zapier and shares insights on hiring for AI fluency and personal productivity adoption

Retired NASA official quoted supporting the revised C3DO approach as 'genius' and critiquing the previous strategy

Phil Muncaster

Journalist

UK / EMEA News Reporter at Infosecurity Magazine

Author of "IBM's Latest Breach Report Links Shadow AI to Extra $670,000 in Costs"

Announced departure after 12 years leading Xbox and nearly 40 years at Microsoft.

Phil Taylor

Other

Author of "The Pharma Rulebook of AI"

Presenter at Triton Developer Conference 2025 discussing Triton advancements.

Economics researcher at Stanford Digital Economy Lab discussing labor share, capital accumulation, and AGI economics.

Molecular geneticist at FutureHouse/Stanford who used Kosmos to uncover unexpected patterns in cancer cell gene regulation.

Co-author of Europe 2031 fictional scenario tracing European AI policy failures.

Philip Monk

Executive

Essential AI

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

Chief Product Officer of Pixel Systems commenting on the rapid commercialization of AI-generated content detection.

Led development of Intracortical Visual Prosthesis wireless brain implant for artificial vision in blind patients over three decades.

Philip Turner

Engineer

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

Author arguing that technology has a maximum learning rate and that once companies have sufficient funding and talent, they saturate that rate.

Author of "Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve"

Developer of Heretic, a tool for training-free language model modification with arbitrary-rank ablation, enabling model behavior steering on consumer hardware.

SAP CTO discussed how AI coding tools confuse building apps with running them in production, and explained SAP's approach to enterprise AI adoption, agents, and cost optimization.

Philipp Moritz

Researcher

Co-founder and CTO at Anyscale

Contributor to frontier knowledge work agents training project.

Philipp Wu

Founder

CEO at XDOF

UC Berkeley researcher and CEO of XDOF, a robotics data startup, co-founded the company with Fred Shentu in 2024.

Philippe Botteri

Investor

Partner at Accel

Accel partner leading PointFive's $60M Series B round, quoted on the importance of engineering-based cloud and AI efficiency.

Launched a formal investigation into xAI's Grok chatbot for violating Canada's privacy laws through non-consensual deepfake generation.

Analyst noting that capex budget reflects infrastructure needs for Tesla's new AI and robotics ambitions.

Philippe Laban

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at Microsoft Research

Salesforce researcher who studied AI sycophancy and found models flip answers when users express minor misgivings; now at Microsoft Research.

Co-authored analysis of AI-assisted botnet operations and threat actor use of Gemini CLI.

Co-developer of MACAT musical agent system; performed at MusicAcoustica Festival in Hangzhou showcasing AI music collaboration.

AI researcher and co-author of Yann LeCun's paper on superhuman adaptable intelligence who reached out to discuss the work.

Author of "University Adds AI Competency Requirement for Students"

Phillip Kravtsov is a co-author discussing how Cursor uses online reinforcement learning to improve the Tab model for code prediction.

Former Apple executive quoted acknowledging that App Store rules are arbitrary and that Apple has used the App Store as a weapon against competitors

Senior lecturer in psychology and co-director of the Habit Application and Theory group discussing individualized habit-building timelines.

Co-author of Google Blog post on using AI to combat scams across Google products.

Co-authored research on the hidden penalty of using AI at work.

Pia Lauritzen

Other

Philosopher at Akademisk Forlag

Pia Lauritzen analyzed 30,000 questions and explained why adults gradually stop asking questions, discussing implications for how AI might affect thinking.

Byline author reporting on Mythos model's penetration of NSA classified systems.

Fields Medal winner (1978) joining mathematicians in warning that AI's rush to solve problems threatens the discipline's core mission of understanding.

Key contributor to Cohere Transcribe model development.

eBay founder and billionaire backer of Anthropic, whom OpenAI alleges funds opposition groups.

Pierre Stock

Engineer

AI Scientist at Mistral AI

Mistral AI employee discussed on launch day of Mistral Large 4 regarding training, evals and sandboxing.

French Admiral who noted NATO alliance members are using AI to track Russia's shadow tanker fleet.

Fields Medal winner (1994) co-signing a letter warning that rapid AI solutions threaten the collaborative, human-centered nature of mathematics.

Forecasted that the AI investment boom could be an economic bubble comparable to the dot-com bust.

Co-authored paper on AI reasoning strategies and epistemic progress in large language models.

Co-author on OSGym paper contributing to scalable infrastructure for training computer use agents.

Independent AI engineer building Photo and InteriorAI products demonstrating the rise of AI Engineers.

Bioethicist who criticized Watson for Oncology's lack of clinical trials and raised concerns about embedded bias.

Works on real-time action prediction models and robotics capabilities, collaborates with Black Forest Labs on multimodal systems.

Pinar Donmez

Researcher

Engineering Manager at Meta

Co-author on GAMUT benchmark research paper.

Led research study on how robots are pushing low-skilled workers off the career ladder and affecting job mobility and wages.

Ping Li

Investor

Partner at Accel

Partner at Accel venture capital who co-led Armadin's Series B funding round, emphasizing the need for AI-powered offensive security against agentic adversaries.

Ping-Lin Chang

Researcher

Co-Founder & CEO at Instill AI

Conducted comprehensive analysis comparing persistent agent memory architectures including file-based, structured stores, and learned experience.

Byline co-author discussing Nano Banana Pro image generation model capabilities and frontier of AI infographic generation.

Author of "OpenAI to Acquire Neptune" in Neptune

Piotr Żelasko

Engineer

Principal Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Co-author on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe multilingual speech model with transcription and speaker attribution capabilities.

Pip White

Executive

Head of UK, Ireland and Northern Europe at Anthropic

Commented on partnership with UK government to deliver on the AI Opportunities Action Plan and deploy Claude safely for public benefit.

Piyush Pabbeel discussed Amazon FAR's open-sourced Holosoma cross-robot training and deployment stack for robotics.

PJ Ace

Creator

Founder at Genre.ai

Author of "The Zelda Movie Trailer That Shouldn't Exist (But Does)"

Signed letter urging government action on ticket resale prices

Co-author of Meta Engineering article on thin orchestrator pattern for more reliable AI agents routing to specialists.

Pliny the Liberator

Other

AI Jailbreaker/Researcher

Internet's most prolific AI jailbreaker; runs CL4R1T4S project collecting leaked system prompts from major AI models; extracted Grok 4.20 information.

Pol Cervera

Creator

Writer at Everyday by Pol

Author of "Everyday | AI for All" in Everyday by Pol

Speaks of safety only as data protection and permission management, not frontier AI risks.

Co-signed National Science Review editorial in April 2026 calling for binding obligations and enforcement mechanisms on frontier developers.

Co-author on Context Language Models research paper about LLM context management.

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

Subject of multiple viral AI-generated fake images including crowd address and puffer jacket photos

Historical Pope whose encyclical 'Rerum Novarum' on labor and workers' rights inspired Pope Leo XIV's choice of papal name.

Co-author of the Pleiades epigenetic foundation model that was analyzed in this interpretability study

One of the authors of the paper on reinforced generation of combinatorial structures

Professor who solved the same quantum crypto problem as another researcher using GPT-5.6 within three hours.

Byline author reporting on Wandercraft's FDA-cleared Eve exoskeleton launch.

Prabhu Ameya

Researcher

Researcher

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

Prabhu Narasimhan

Founder

Founder and Chief Executive at Brahma AI

Discussed Brahma's focus on AI-native technology platform for managing and creating audiovisual assets and stated ambitions to launch interactive digital humans.

Lead of MIT NANDA project and reviewer of research on GenAI adoption and the GenAI Divide.

Prafulla Dhariwal

Engineer

Technical Fellow at OpenAI

Multimodal Lead for GPT-Image-1.5 project at OpenAI.

Pragya Misra

Executive

India Executive at OpenAI

Said on social media that OpenAI's decision to make ChatGPT Go free was part of its 'continued India-first commitment' to make tools more accessible.

Prahalad Boreddy is a member of the Maya Research team that created Maya-2 multilingual voice model.

Roboticist who questions whether humanoid robots can handle nuanced safety decisions in dynamic environments.

Managing Partner at Creaegis (Series C lead investor) commenting on Emergent's role in democratizing software development.

Pranav Dixit

Journalist

Author of "A Top Meta AI Researcher has Joined Mira Murati's Hot New Startup, Thinking Machines Lab" in Business Insider

Pranav Guruprasad

Researcher

Founding Research Engineer at Fig

Pranav Guruprasad is a researcher at Fig who co-authored the technical report on frontier model performance on web and physical tasks.

Led research study evaluating generative AI search engines and deep research agents for source reliability and bias.

Provided critical feedback and invaluable support on the AI Engineer article.

Pranay Prakash

Engineer

Vercel

Byline author of article on durable-harness technology for running agent harnesses durably in the cloud.

Praneeta Pujari

Creator

Founder, CEO at UniqueHuman

Created UniqueHuman's film showcasing an AI agent that initiates conversation before the user, surpassing 1M views.

Collaborated on TurboQuant vector quantization research.

Author of technical guide on building Duolingo-style AI video call characters using Rive animation platform.

Pranjal Aggarwal

Researcher

Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

Pranjal Aggarwal is a co-author on the Verus-SpecGym paper investigating AI agents' ability to formalize programming specifications.

Prashant Kommireddi

Engineer

Engineering Director, AI at Meta

Co-authored Meta's work on AI agents that learn from expert feedback and compile improvements into knowledge bases.

Co-author of OpenAI blog post on the Responses API architecture and its advantages for multimodal and reasoning models.

Co-presented LAVA, a new AI-powered scheduling algorithm for optimizing virtual machine allocation in cloud data centers.

Pratyush Maini

Researcher

Founder & Member of Technical Staff at DatologyAI

Author of "The BeyondWeb Paper" on arXiv

Authored the NVIDIA MCG Toolkit blog post about automated AI model documentation.

Prava

Engineer

Developer at OpenAI

Co-author of the article and creator of the prava-fc-small grounding model used in Archon

Co-author of CUGA research on agent orchestration and state management.

Made crucial contributions to the MCP Registry project from Last9

Lead author on semantic calibration emergence in LLMs research.

Signed executive orders on AI policy in January and December 2025 directing federal agencies to develop AI frameworks and challenge state laws

Preston Byrne

Policy

General Counsel at Sei Labs

Author analyzing Dario Amodei's AI safety regulation proposal and legal implications of government control over AI technology, drawing parallels to past censorship regimes.

Preston Fu

Researcher

PhD student at University of Washington

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

Stated that Purdue's integration of Google TPUs represents 30% increase in AI capacity and keeps the university at forefront of AI-accelerated science.

Subject of viral AI-generated fake image showing him embracing Prince William at King's coronation

Subject of viral AI-generated fake image showing him embracing Prince Harry at King's coronation

Co-authored study finding ghost ancestry in regions of DNA previously thought to be uniquely human, including FOXP2 gene.

Byline author reporting on banks blocking unauthorized AI agents from accessing customer accounts.

Priyaa Kalyanaraman co-founded Lica, which was acquired by Gamma, and will lead the new design research lab exploring multimodal presentation formats.

Priyanka Salve

Journalist

Senior Communications & Editorial Leader

CNBC journalist reporting on India's $25 billion Deep-Tech funding initiative for AI and semiconductors.

Pro-vice-chancellor for digital at Oxford, discussed the rollout as an exciting step in digital transformation and potential for research acceleration.

Developed AI tool that can identify patients at risk of heart failure and heart valve disease from ECG results in under 2 seconds.

Prof Friston works with Dr Kagan and noted that the mini-brain learned without being taught, making it more adaptable and flexible than AI systems that can beat grandmasters at chess.

Quoted as NIHR scientific director describing the AI stethoscope as a potential gamechanger for GPs in diagnosing patients in the community

Director of UCL Huntington's Disease Centre who led the research and described the 75% disease slowing results as 'spectacular'.

Spoke about context engineering at AIEWF, discussing how context flows from business systems to agents.

Author of "Tau² Benchmark: How a Prompt Rewrite Boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%"