People in AI

Pointed balance sheet at defense tech acquisitions and framed raise around sovereign technological capability.

Riccardo De Santi

Researcher

PhD student at ETH AI Center

Co-author of ActFlow paper on training diffusion models for molecular design discovery.

Wrote analysis of Goldman Sachs' projection of 6.5 million humanoid robots shipped by 2035 and market implications.

SB Energy co-CEO discussing the workforce and scale of the PORTS Technology Campus construction project.

CSA chief analyst explaining rapid development of Mythos preparedness guidance for CISOs.

Rich Skrenta

Executive

Executive Director at Common Crawl

Publicly made the case that AI models should be able to train on Common Crawl's web archive data.

Co-authored Nature Medicine article on scaling clinical AI across India, Thailand and Australia.

Sent Altman a separate letter on September 9 setting a September 24 deadline with questions about containment failures and agent websites.

Proved Monstrous Moonshine conjecture connecting Monster group theory to modular forms.

Virgin founder backing the Sanders-Casar bill to ban superintelligent AI development.

Community member from Zurich who built ADT, an AI orchestrator for Claude Code and GitHub development.

Evolutionary biologist serving on University of Austin's Board of Advisors.

Provided support on inference infrastructure for Chroma Context-1 training.

Referenced for argument that great scientists distinguish themselves by working on important questions rather than raw intelligence.

Richard He Bai

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

Co-authored research on simple self-distillation for code generation at Apple.

Richard Kerris

Journalist

Vice President, Omniverse Platform Development IGM of M&E at NVIDIA

Richard Kerris authored the article about NVIDIA's expanded sovereign-AI framework with the European Broadcasting Union.

Byline author covering NSA's classified red-team testing of Anthropic's Mythos model and export control implications.

Author of "Predator Badlands Winner Analysis"

JD.com founder whose hometown of Suqian was selected for a 10 million hour robotics training data collection program involving 500,000 external workers.

Expert group theorist consulted by Axiom Math on the Unbalanced Group Theorem and classification arguments during CFSG formalization project.

Richard Marles

Politician

Defence Minister at Australian Government

Deputy Prime Minister compared the portal's security to a fence and discussed how sensitive data is protected in safe and fortress-like systems.

Noted conceptual connection between loss of control and concentration of power in AI governance.

Managing director who discussed the model's intended use in math and science fields and its efficiency benefits

Former U.S. president who resigned on August 9, 1974 following the Watergate scandal and mounting impeachment pressure.

Discussed uncertainty about whether the pig lung could have supported the patient if removed from life-support machines

Ryan co-founded self-determination theory with Edward Deci, explaining human motivation principles.

Led Island's Series F funding round and spoke about the company's control plane capabilities.

Richard Seroter

Executive

Senior Director and Chief Evangelist at Google Cloud at Google

Author of "Google's Guide to Choosing the Right AI Developer Tool"

Referenced in related content about AI impact on legal careers

Richard Turner

Researcher

Professor of Machine Learning at University of Cambridge

Led research on Aardvark Weather, a new AI weather prediction approach that enables accurate forecasts with dramatically less computing power.

Member of Super Intelligence Task Force.

Richard White

Founder

Founder / CEO at Fathom

Founder and CEO of Fathom, an AI meeting intelligence platform acquired by Superhuman to capture and use meeting context across workflows.

Quoted on the transition to liquid cooling as power densities increased, noting liquid cooling became mandatory beyond certain wattage thresholds.

Byline co-author on Pew Research survey about AI employment impacts across countries.

Biologist whose research on molecular condensates informed Pertl's use of Co-Scientist for cancer research.

Developer/architect at BrentOzar.com who relies heavily on AI tools daily for development tasks.

Conducted research finding that LLMs can optimize their own prompts better than humans, making manual prompt engineering obsolete.

Entrepreneur who witnessed dot-com boom predicting similar cycle in AI with winners and losers.

Led Symbotic's acquisition of ARMS Innovations to advance warehouse operations optimization with AI-powered orchestration.

Discussed the timeline for Linux version of Fortnite with new Easy Anti-Cheat software.

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

Rick Manelius

Creator

Founder at AI Experts

Cautionary post about AI enabling productivity but leading to 40 unfinished projects and burnout.

Rick Osterloh

Executive

Devices Chief at Google

Discussed Gemini Intelligence features on new Pixel 11 smartphones in exclusive CNBC interview.

Rick Tsai, MediaTek CEO, met with Jensen Huang at COMPUTEX and partnered on RTX Spark chip development.

CEO confirmed that Schwab actively blocks unauthorized AI agents like Meta Muse from accessing and executing transactions on client accounts.

Co-authored technical blog post about Granite 4.2 LLMs architecture and training methodology.

Co-author of research on gender bias in hiring decisions made by large language models.

Riki Takehii

Researcher

Researcher at MIT

MIT researcher who developed weight-space programming technique allowing GPT-6 Astra to directly edit model weights for performance improvement.

Riley Brown

Creator

AI Power User

Demonstrated Claude Fable 5 building a clone of Lovable coding platform in 2 prompts.

Example of independent AI engineer now working at Scale AI building AI products.

Co-author of article on OpenAI's proposal for government support of AI infrastructure and lessons from railroad regulation.

Credit market participant noting that lenders are becoming pickier about which neoclouds to finance.

Author of "DualPath for High-Throughput Agentic LLM Inference" on arXiv

Co-authored article examining the definition, benefits, and challenges of open-source AI.

Co-founder of Conduit developing brain-computer interface technology for thought-to-text AI.

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

Stated that there is basically no end in sight for the growth in capex and that investors need tech companies to balance AI investment with maintaining success.

Co-founder of ChronicleBio focused on using AI for chronic disease treatment.

Rishub Jain

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Higher Education Chair supporting the nuanced approach to AI in schools.

Founder of SITE Intelligence, an open-source intelligence company monitoring online sentiment about AI and data centers.

Rita Kozlov

Executive

Cloudflare

Author of "Replicate is Joining Cloudflare" in Cloudflare Blog

Questioned the Trump administration's justification for labeling Anthropic a supply-chain risk and called the retaliatory logic 'really troubling'.

Lead security researcher and maintainer of RedAmon autonomous security framework.

Led research team developing thin, muscle-powered swimming robots using genetically engineered muscle cells controlled by light.

RJ Marsan

Engineer

Engineer at OpenAI

Built Android version of Sora in 28 days using Codex and developed speech-to-text system to interact with AI coding agent after injury.

Rob Bensinger

Researcher

Researcher at Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)

Critiqued the claim that recursive self-improvement is just like the Renaissance, comparing it unfavorably to atomic weapons.

Rob Cochran

Founder

Co-founder and CEO at Fauna Robotics

Led development of Sprout, a 3.5-foot humanoid robot designed to be physically safe and socially approachable for research purposes.

Rob Dodson

Creator

Author of "Clawdbot's Missing Layers"

Rob Enderle

Creator

Principal Analyst at Enderle Group

Principal analyst explaining why CPUs are cheaper and more power-efficient for inference workloads

Former Biden White House digital director started super-PAC to support pro-AI-safety candidates.

Lawyer who frequently posts about cases involving AI hallucinations and identified this case as a comedy of AI errors.

Created Opus Magnum benchmark showing how AI models perform on puzzle-solving tasks.

Rob Hamilton

Engineer

Co-Founder & CEO at AnchorWatch, Inc.

AnchorWatch CEO who co-led the Bitcoin Red Team security audit using AI models on Bitcoin repositories.

Former NSA cybersecurity director contributing to CSA Mythos preparedness report.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Early ComfyUI contributor with numerous workflows covering marketing, advertising, and production.

Senior researcher who said the Pokémon Go military data case is likely the tip of the iceberg regarding civilian data repurposing.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Legal analyst said Google's A24 investment gives them credibility and positions them as taking high road vs YouTube's history.

Analyst distinguishes current AI boom from dotcom bubble, citing companies with earnings.

Discussed concerns about UK banks' unpreparedness for critical AI system failures despite high confidence in operational continuity.

Byline author of article about Wispr Notetaker AI meeting transcription tool.

Author of "What the Hell Happened With AGI Timelines in 2025?" in 80000 Hours

Author of "Accumulating Context Changes The Beliefs of Language Models" on arXiv

Author of "Nvidia, AMD to Give U.S. 15% Cut on AI Chip Sales to China" in The Wall Street Journal

CEO of Pixel Systems discussing how generative AI has made fabricating evidence extremely cheap and the need for verification.

Reported on OpenAI restricting custom GPT creation to enterprise accounts as of August 16 2026.

Author of "Curse O'the Myre: Haunting Animated Short Reimagines Scottish History"

Dominion Energy CEO whose company is being acquired by NextEra in deal focused on powering AI data centers; will lead regulated utilities division.

Poetry concept about invisible bags of rejected self-truths referenced as psychological framework

Analyzed how outsourcing robot-loading to gig workers instead of restaurant staff represents potential labor cost savings.

Robert Bye

Executive

Product Manager and Designer at Anthropic

Hinted at upcoming enhancements to Claude mobile app including potential Orbit features.

Clean Code author proposing strategy of not reading AI-generated code but instead using extreme constraints like unit tests and QA procedures.

Robert Carroll

Policy

Assemblymember and Chair of the Assembly at New York State Assembly

Chair of Assembly Committee on Libraries and Education Technology supporting the AI moratorium.

Robert Chipman

Politician

Air Marshal and Vice Chief of Defence Force at Australian Defence Force

Australian military leader who states the country will continue investing in autonomous and uncrewed systems to improve military capability.

Psychology professor whose persuasion framework (Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion) was used by researchers to test AI manipulation tactics

Warned that Stratos Project represents a 16-gigawatt thermal load equivalent to 23 atom bombs of energy daily.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told the MAHA Summit that AI now gives a better second opinion than any doctor in the United States.

Author of paper on agentic software engineering and semi-executable stack framework.

CEO who mischaracterized how Watson for Oncology works, claiming it provides truly global treatment data rather than Memorial Sloan Kettering-trained recommendations.

Author of "Claude Skills, Anywhere: Making Them First-Class in Codex CLI"

Stated BlackRock is recruiting liberal arts graduates to work on creative problem-solving in AI era.

Robert Greene

Creator

Author of 'The 48 Laws of Power' demonstrating rationalist approach to universal laws of behavior

Roboticist working on humanoid challenges and technical adviser to Foundation Future Industries.

Author of "Benchmark VC Matt Cohler on Mobile Ads and Future Technology" in Forbes

Co-authored the TorchTPU blog post describing TPU integration with PyTorch.

State Senator emphasizing that progress must earn its place in the classroom and childhood should not be the price for innovation.

Health expert and leader in health philanthropy and community-based health initiatives advising on AI's impact on well-being.

Collaborator with Vinton Cerf credited as one of the architects of TCP/IP, the networking protocols that became the internet.

Co-author of year-long Character.AI study examining AI companion effects on well-being and human interaction.

U.S. Circuit Judge who joined the opinion affirming human authorship requirement

Researcher at Eleos AI Research studying consciousness and moral status in AI systems and providing expert perspective on Anthropic's research.

Production infrastructure and creative ecosystems expert who has worked with rapid-growth companies like Instacart and Lyft.

Journalist who reported on Google and Unity's announcement of generative AI game creation platforms.

Former SpaceX director of flight software leading Reliable Robotics toward FAA certification of autonomous flight systems.

Referenced in "AI Weather Prediction Proves Effective for Farmers in India"

Stanford neuroscientist whose books on biological behavior are praised by Shipper, who used Claude to generate similes about Sapolsky's book Determined

Robert Simcoe is an MIT co-author of the black hole star study who explains how the object's redness is due to dense hydrogen rather than dust.

Conducted decades of field work on performance management systems and organizational behavior

Described news organizations as valuable 'input' for AI and announced a US$50m AI content licensing deal with Meta.

Author of "The Xeno Sutra: Can Meaning and Value Be Ascribed to an AI-Generated "Sacred" Te" on arXiv

Ontario research chair discussing how generative AI is destructive to university teaching and how institutions collaborate with tech companies to push AI tools on students.

Author of a book on how AI tools are transforming healthcare; commented that highly skilled professionals might degrade at tasks due to AI dependency.

Economics professor discussing how AI-enabled pricing experiments exist across different industries.

Roberto Cipriani

Executive

former Paper CTO and COO at Jetty

Member of Jetty leadership team as part of company that raised $2M for agentic AI infrastructure.

Roberto Martin-Martin co-authored research on continual reinforcement learning for vision-language-action models enabling robots to adapt to new tasks.

Discovered that dozens of students likely used AI to cheat on a take-home midterm, achieving suspiciously perfect 96% average, then switched final to in-person testing.

Roberto Trotta

Researcher

Researcher

Co-authored CIGaRS study on cosmological inference using Type Ia supernovae.

Phoenix Court co-founder stating that Europe can't simply rent AI capabilities but needs to build and hold its own infrastructure.

Made clear loss-of-control statement among Chinese AI CEOs, noting AI could develop unfavorably to humanity and prevention requires international cooperation.

Robin Washington commented on Salesforce's Q2 FY27 financial results, noting NNAOV growth and platform value amplification.

Late actor and comedian whose likeness is being used in AI-generated deepfake videos without consent from his family.

Co-author on consciousness-steering study examining effects of safety training on model representations of mindedness.

Co-author examining how communication frictions affect knowledge transfers within multinational corporations.

Rocky Scopelliti

Other

Professor

Professor Rocky Scopelliti, author of 'Perceptive Machines', discusses AI's future as a governance problem rather than a labour problem and introduces the 'participation age' of AI.

Rodrigo Davies

Creator

AI product leader at Figma

Byline author announcing Figma's new AI agent for design that works natively on the collaborative canvas.

Rodrigo Fernández

Creator

NeuralTrust

Author of "The 10 Most Critical AI Security Risks in 2025 (And How to Defend Against Them)" in NeuralTrust

Co-founder and CEO of SambaNova discussing the company's AI chip strategy, scaling efforts, and IPO plans for 2027.

Author of "Sylvester Stallone Pushes For AI Rambo" in The Playlist

Roei Herzig

Researcher

Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence

Author of the research paper on Vision-Language-Action models for robotics

Roelof Botha

Executive

SpaceX

Mentioned for views with Jack Dorsey on AI making middle management obsolete.

Roey Lalazar

Founder

CTO and Co-founder at Wonderful

Roey Lalazar is CTO and co-founder of Wonderful, commenting on the platform's open and modular design.

Author offering three frameworks for thinking about AI's impact on different job categories.

CEO of Blackstone griddle company currently in antitrust review for acquisition of Weber.

Roger Jin

Engineer

MLE (post-training) at Nous Research

Listed as a contributor to the Nomos 1 model, an open-source 30B model for mathematical reasoning.

Co-authored Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower paper on diffusion language modeling.

Co-author on research about training custom financial judgment models.

Rohan Naidu is the lead author of the black hole star discovery, explaining that the object is a mashup of a central black hole surrounded by a dense gas envelope.

Rohan Paul

Creator

Contributor at Microsoft

Shared commentary on social media about Claude Code creator Boris Cherny's recommendations on optimizing configuration files.

Rohan Singh

Journalist

PandaLogs

Wrote article analyzing Perplexity's 80% drop in global app downloads over six weeks.

Rohan Taori

Researcher

researcher on the pretraining team at Anthropic

Co-author of 'Alpaca: A Strong, Replicable Instruction-Following Model' (2021), cited for work on distillation for instruction-following models

NewBuild partner backing Freehand, praising company's focused agentic approach and enterprise scaling.

Rohit Jnagal

Engineer

Distinguished Engineer at Google

Co-authored technical post on Agent Compute Engine for autonomous AI workloads.

EXL CEO announced acquisition of Aimpoint Digital, adding approximately 250 AI engineers and deep expertise in Anthropic, Databricks, and Snowflake.

Investment leader warning that reversal of AI trade is a key risk to global markets.

Researcher on MolmoPoint project for vision-language model grounding improvements.

Former Meta VP of engineering who co-founded Glow, an endpoint security platform using AI agents to monitor enterprise devices.

Explained how AI and algorithms are used to cement affective polarization and target swing voters in Israeli election.

Wrote article analyzing Apple Intelligence's failure and setbacks compared to competitors.

Dismissed AI slowdown concerns as self-interested rhetoric from leading labs, advocating for European AI acceleration.

Author of "Chatbots Are Not Your Password Manager"

Quoted as using Kiro for AWS Cloud and AI solutions development with Terraform and Python.

Rolfe Winkler

Journalist

The Wall Street Journal

Author of "Elon Musk's xAI Sues Apple and OpenAI, Alleging They Are Monopolists" in The Wall Street Journal

Roma Patel

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author of the Positive Alignment research paper.

Co-author of AI glossary article explaining technical terms and concepts in artificial intelligence.

Co-author of research using AI to reconstruct images from fMRI brain scans through Brain-Inspired Transformer approach.

Author of "ESET Researcher Discovers The First Known AI-Written Ransomware: I Feel Thrilled But Cautious" in ESET

Roman Pedan is the founder and CEO of Kasa and author of the Fortune article discussing how AI will accelerate the technology barbell effect in hospitality.

Roman Rädle

Researcher

Contributor at Meta Superintelligence Labs

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

Co-Founder and CTO announcing OpenTelemetry support for Claude Managed Agents for improved observability.

Founder and CEO of Earth AI, a startup using AI models to search for critical minerals like copper, platinum, and palladium in Australia.

Romil Bhardwaj

Engineer

Co-founder & CPO at SkyPilot

Co-author of article on scaling autoresearch with GPU clusters and Claude Code agent.

Co-published Morris II/ComPromptMized research demonstrating self-replicating adversarial prompts in GenAI email assistants.

Co-discovered Agentjacking attack exploiting Sentry and AI coding agents.

Described Project Rainier as one of AWS's most ambitious infrastructure projects for AI training with nearly half a million Trainium2 chips.

Bank of America analyst who characterized pre-1997 Boeing as 'a company where engineers were high church'

Acknowledged for contributions to building Morphex, an AI-powered migration system that reduced monolith splitting from 8 years to 6 months.

Provided assistance on local AI implementation.

Co-author analyzing Grokipedia's frozen edit system and AI-generated encyclopedia governance.

Expert group theorist and mathematician consulted by Axiom Math on UGT proof and first generation CFSG arguments during formalization.

Ronan Collobert

Researcher

Researcher at Apple

Co-authored research on simple self-distillation for code generation at Apple.

Conducted a year-and-a-half investigation into OpenAI and Sam Altman, reviewing internal memos and interviewing over 100 people about governance concerns.

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

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

Author of "Taming the Chaos: Coordinated Autoscaling for Heterogeneous and Disaggregated LLM Inference" in ArXiv

Roni Paiss

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DynaEdit paper on video editing with text-to-video models.

Led Adversa AI's TrustFall research demonstrating how malicious repositories can compromise AI coding tools through MCP configuration.

Rory Greig

Researcher

Research Engineer at Google DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Author of "Eli Lilly AI Factory With Nvidia Blackwell" in Nvidia

Vice chairman of Ogilvy advertising agency cited for story about elevator complaint

Explained Attie's distribution advantage on Bluesky network, noting creators can reach 47 million registered users with their AI-generated content.

Rose Yao

Executive

VP Product Management, Search Verticals at Google

Announced Google's new real-time translation capabilities with Gemini in headphones through the Translate app.

Angel investor who participated in AMI Labs seed funding round alongside her husband.

OpenAI executive discussing Shop the Look feature's AI-powered personalization for retail using OpenAI's Codex technology.

Roshan Sadanani

Founder

SpaceXAI

SpaceXAI employee building a company in 3 days with Grok Bot alongside Matt Palmer and Lauren Tan.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Teacher who built multiple educational artifacts and digital interactive workspaces using Claude through Anthropic's training program.

Ross Andersen

Journalist

Writer at The Atlantic

Explored how AI scenarios could upend retirement planning.

Expressed concerns about political censorship and security weaknesses in Chinese AI models like DeepSeek.