People in AI

Reported on Citrini Research's thesis that AI-enabled robotics are a major investing mega-trend with China advancing faster than expected.

Contributing author to Anthropic's alignment research on reducing Claude's propensity for misaligned behavior in adversarial scenarios.

Samuel Schmidgall

Researcher

Lead author at Google DeepMind

Researcher and lead author of the Co-Scientist research paper describing AI system for autonomous lab research.

Co-founder and Co-Chief Research Officer of Aleph Alpha who will become Chief Research Officer of Cohere with expertise in tokenization, language model training, and explainability.

Creator and maintainer of RedAmon, an autonomous AI framework for running full cyberattacks and auto-patching code.

Marktechpost consulting intern who wrote about OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-2B model release.

Sanae Lotfi

Researcher

Researcher at NYU Center for Data Science

Lotfi co-authored research on scaling laws and model training optimization at small scales.

Japanese Prime Minister joined by video at government's physical-AI launch event on July 16.

Noted that when a chip supplier guarantees a customer's lease, it becomes a sponsor-tenant relationship rather than vendor-customer.

CFO of Intuit who shared that QuickBooks uses AI to tailor onboarding specifically to business categories like plumbing.

Sandeep Waraich

Executive

Senior Director, Wearables at Google

Google executive discussing concept of smart glasses with cameras that process visual data without recording footage.

Sander Land

Researcher

LLM Engineering Lead at Neko Health

Reproduced Claude's tokenizer and discovered it has approximately 15,000 entries, leading to analysis of gradient bottleneck theories in model training.

Managing Partner at Premji Invest who led the $190M Series A-1 funding round for Upscale AI.

Sandor Felber

Founder

CEO at Minerva Humanoids

26-year-old CEO of Minerva Humanoids, a robotics startup making Roger, a remote-controlled humanoid for hazardous jobs like oil rigs and bomb disposal.

Co-authored research on the critical role of strategic workforce planning in the age of AI and how gen AI has increased uncertainty about workforce skills.

Notes that speech features can be affected by age, language background, medication and stress rather than mental illness, creating research-to-practice gap for AI diagnosis.

Discussed how Cognizant's AI Builder approach applies frontier AI capability to enterprise security and remediation at scale.

Author of "Your Brain Lies to You, and AI Falls for It, Too"

Technology entrepreneur and co-founder complementing the research team at Merge Labs.

Sangeet Paul Choudary

Creator

Wrote an essay analyzing the fallacies of 'AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will' and its misunderstandings of how AI restructures work systems.

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

Sangmin Bae

Researcher

Meta

Author of "Mixture-of-Recursions" on arXiv

Authored the Krea 2 Technical Report describing expansive image generation models for creative exploration.

Co-author of study on agent development and real-world work.

Sanja Fidler

Researcher

Vice President of AI Research at NVIDIA

Explained that AI is advancing simulation capabilities and simulation capabilities are advancing AI systems, highlighting the powerful coupling between the two fields.

Sanjay Adhikesaven

Researcher

Researcher at AI2

Co-authored paper on modular post-training with mixture-of-experts for improving language model capabilities.

Sanjay Mehrotra

Executive

Chairman & CEO at Micron Technology

Attributed Micron's record fiscal Q4 revenue of $54.23 billion largely to AI-driven demand for advanced memory and storage.

Sanjay Pujare

Engineer

Author at Google

Co-author on Google Developers Blog post about unified API for AI model routing on Google Cloud API Gateway.

Sanjeev Arora

Researcher

Researcher at Meta Superintelligence Labs

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

Co-author of the paper on Scalable In-context Ranking with Generative Models

Sanjoy Chowdhury

Researcher

Research intern at Apple MLR

Co-author on ESAT synthetic data generation research paper.

Sanjush Dalmia

Researcher

Fellow, Centre for British Progress at NHS

CBP fellow who authored a report recommending the UK harness AI tools to boost research quality through metascience and evidence synthesis.

Santi Ruiz

Other

Editorial at Anthropic

Wrote the explainer piece on economic scenarios for transformative AI.

Santiago Aranguri

Researcher

Research Scientist at Goodfire

Co-author of research on model behavior sculpting through interpretability

Santiago Ferrer

Engineer

Head of Applied AI

Creator of open-source career-ops tool who used it to land a job and now open-sourced it.

Leads NeoSmartML+ project adding on-device AI-powered caregiver guidance for Kangaroo Mother Care with multilingual support.

Sara Beykpour

Founder

Co-founder & CEO at Particle

Founded Particle AI newsreader startup and launched Radar podcast intelligence platform for AI agents.

Created the Financial Engineering function at OpenAI, organized into pods for pricing, infrastructure, and payments.

Announced additional $10 billion funding commitment bringing total to $120 billion; discussed revenue split and IPO preparations.

Sara Gerke

Researcher

Law Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Noted that data protection for AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude largely depends on company privacy policies due to lack of federal framework.

Sara Guaglione

Journalist

Senior Media Reporter at Digiday

Co-authored article about Google's AI content licensing pilot program for publishers.

Stated that AI can quickly shape company perception and emphasized the importance of transparency in AI usage.

Co-authored guest post on post-training open models for tool use and biomedical research with reinforcement learning.

Lead author of study on storage emissions comparing SSD and HDD environmental impact

Led research on growing chickpeas in simulated lunar regolith for future moon missions.

Sara Weissman

Journalist

Senior Reporter at Inside Higher Ed

Author of "University of Austin Enters Its First Academic Year" in Inside Higher Ed

Sarah Alamdari

Researcher

Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft Research

Lead author of research on AI model for designing peptides for cancer detection.

Sarah Basford Canales

Journalist

Journalist

Byline author reporting on Five Eyes intelligence agencies warning of devastating AI cyber attacks within months.

Microsoft's CPO of Responsible AI who discussed how agentic AI systems require system-level controls beyond traditional alignment, emphasizing context-specific trust rather than universal trust.

Rejected the characterization of Anthropic as wanting a machine God, stating the Culture scenario would be disastrous.

One of eight researchers who analyzed ELIZA's source code for the book Inventing ELIZA.

Author of paper focusing on painting/drawing with traditional physical arts media and socially assistive robots in art therapy

Creating multi-product reaction benchmark using unpublished electronic lab notebooks to test whether models can predict novel reaction outcomes.

Co-authored research finding no detectable effect of AI on recent employment trends across most exposure measures.

Sarah Foster

Other

U.S. Economy Reporter And Analyst at Bankrate

Sarah Foster, Bankrate analyst, commented that fraudsters are getting more sophisticated thanks to AI and reaching more people than ever.

Sarah Gates

Executive

VP Global Affairs & Assurance at Wayve

Announced Wayve's receipt of Transport for London Private Hire Vehicle licences for autonomous vehicles, marking progress toward public robotaxi launch.

Sarah H Bana co-authored Stanford HAI's study examining racial bias and systemic rejection in AI hiring tools across 1,700 job postings.

Sarah Hughes

Executive

Head of Corporate Development and Product Partnerships at Atlassian

Atlassian executive commenting on the company's investment in Legora and alignment with AI-powered team collaboration vision.

Bestselling fantasy author whose works are published by Bloomsbury; her absence of new titles contributed to revenue decline in consumer division.

Graduate student studying aging and senescent cells whose expertise in preparing senescent cells was crucial to the aptamer research project.

Co-author of the 2024 United States Data Center Energy Usage Report on data center energy usage.

Team member involved in Adobe-Claude integration project.

US undersecretary for public diplomacy comparing potential UK X ban to Russia-style censorship

Sarah Rose Siskind

Founder

Founder at HelloSciCom

Created FetusGPT, an LLM trained on her daily conversations during pregnancy, to compare how natural intelligence develops alongside AI.

Warned that rapidly generated AI recommendations could overwhelm human oversight in military contexts.

Author who joined lawsuit against Meta regarding use of copyrighted books for LLM training.

Sarah Su

Researcher

Researcher at Bridgewater AIA Labs

Lead author on research about training custom models to replicate expert investor judgment on financial tasks, outperforming frontier models.

Founding co-chair of Human Cell Atlas commenting on GPT-Rosalind agents analyzing biological data.

Leads AI Strategy and information technology at IMD as a thought leader in education innovation.

Explains that good code reviews catch bugs, teach knowledge, and help teams move faster with fewer mistakes

Sarah Wiegreffe

Researcher

Researcher at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

Provided feedback on Naomi Saphra's essay on AI's impact on trust and communication.

Co-author from BCG contributing to field experimental research

Sari Azout

Founder

Founder at Sublime

Argues that AI shifts focus from productivity to creativity and that original creative work matters more than speed.

Sarthak Rastogi

Engineer

AI Engineer

Built agent-engineer plugin for coding assistants with 11 skills and 4 subagents to improve AI agent engineering practices.

Sarthak Sharma

Other

Co-host, No Priors at No Priors

Sarthak Sharma (@saranormous) co-hosted the Satya Crossover Pod episode discussing Microsoft's AI strategy.

Co-author of guide on governing AI agents at scale in enterprises.

Sasha Goldshtein

Researcher

Researcher at Google DeepMind

Co-author of the SimpleQA Verified benchmark paper

MIT Statistics director who wrote essay on how AI is changing academia, particularly in mathematics and theoretical fields.

Byline author reporting on tech workers retiring early due to AI-related changes.

Discussed Microsoft's development of microfluidic cooling systems for next-generation AI chips in datacenters.

Author of "Google dodges Chrome breakup" in The Rundown

IBM researcher contributing data storage trends analysis on NAND, HDD and tape storage

Chandra co-authored the agentic code reasoning paper exploring how LLM agents can reason about code semantics without execution.

Satish Thomas, Vice President at Google Cloud, announced the expanded partnership with Oracle to bring Gemini models into Oracle's enterprise applications.

Noted that Microsoft's October 2026 security patches far surpassed previous record-setting volumes.

Co-authored Emergence World paper on persistent multi-agent environments and safety challenges.

Coauthor with George Torres and Sharad Shrestha on GhostWriter memory poisoning attack research.

Satyen K Bordoloi

Journalist

Author who analyzed Anthropic's warnings about AI designing itself and the dangers involved.

Chief investigator of Phase 1 trial for AI-designed coronavirus vaccine; discussed urgency of broader vaccine protection against evolving viruses.

Phoenix Court co-founder discussing the shutdown of Anthropic's Mythos and Fable as a reminder that Europe needs to build its own AI capabilities.

Established New Yorker cartoonist whose signature ChatGPT reproduces.

Authored the article on AI limitations in reading financial documents and evaluating frontier AI models on real-world tasks.

Co-authored technical publication on Microsoft Maia 300 describing energy-efficient agentic inference architecture.

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

Legal expert analyzing how Trump AI framework could preempt Texas and Colorado state AI laws.

Saurav Kadavath

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of the MATH dataset paper for measuring mathematical problem solving.

Saurav Muralidharan

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at NVIDIA

Author of "Nemotron Elastic: Towards Efficient Many-in-One Reasoning LLMs" on arXiv

Research assistant on MIT paper about generative AI for wireless scene reconstruction.

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

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

Scott Alfieri commented on Accenture's partnership with Google Cloud to strengthen solutions for enterprise agentic AI adoption.

Led Norwest's investment in Coval's Series A funding round.

Scott Dresser

Executive

Vice president of Amazon Robotics at Amazon

Discussed Amazon's robotic fleet development, deployment strategies, and new robot models like Vulcan with force feedback.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Scott Farquhar

Executive

Co-Founder of Atlassian at Atlassian

Atlassian co-founder commenting that AI represents the biggest opportunity ahead for the company.

Scott Geng

Researcher

Director Software Engineering

Author of "Training a VLM Judge Without Human Labels" on arXiv

Built a Windows node for OpenClaw that could be demonstrated at Microsoft Build developer conference.

Scott Hosking

Researcher

Director of Science and Innovation for Environment and Sustainability at Alan Turing Institute

Co-author on the Aardvark Weather research published in Nature, demonstrating AI's potential to transform weather forecasting.

Scott Kennedy

Executive

Engineering Lead at Replit

Co-author describing self-driving company model at Replit where AI agents handle coding, incident investigation, and business analysis.

Scott Langille

Researcher

Exa AI

Scott Langille co-authored the ATLAS benchmark paper on evaluating agents on search-intensive tasks.

Came to DOGE from property technology startup Kukun; now executive director of deregulation AI at Office of Management and Budget.

Quoted on providing clean energy infrastructure for Lighthouse data center campus.

Founder of General Matter who spoke about energy bottlenecks in AI scaling and proposed community benefit models for AI data centers.

Co-CEO of KKR who co-signed statement about AI compute infrastructure becoming a critical asset class.

Famous pollster who founded the Napolitan Institute that is partnering with Jigsaw on a new project

Maintainer who rejected a PR from an autonomous agent, which subsequently published a critical article about him.

Scott Stephenson

Executive

CEO at Deepgram

Scott Stephenson, CEO of Deepgram, discussed the acquisition of Daily and the company's commitment to open-source development and building voice agents.

Scott Turow

Creator

Bestselling author and named plaintiff in class action lawsuit against Google accusing the company of illegally copying millions of works to train Gemini AI.

Robotics pioneer who challenged Figure AI CEO to demonstrate 8-hour autonomous robot shift, prompting the livestream announcement.

NZC CEO stating the arrangement will sharpen on-field decision-making and elevate fan engagement.

Co-author on GAMUT benchmark research paper.

Co-authored event recap coverage of Apple's September hardware announcements.

SE Gyges

Creator

VerySane

Author of "Building the Chinese Room" in VerySane

Co-author at Carnegie Mellon on SkillLearnBench for skill generation methods.

Sean Baribeau

Other

Adobe

Team member credited for Adobe-Claude collaboration.

Found and fixed a correctness issue in DeepSpeed ZeRO-1/2 that had persisted for years.

Sean Camacho

Politician

State Representative

Colorado Democrat state representative who sponsored HB 26-1263 chatbot safety bill with exemptions criticized by child safety advocates.

Credited for developing the DOOM code used in the neuron-based game demonstration on the CL1 device.

Sean Duffy

Politician

U.S. Transportation Secretary at U.S. Department of Transportation

Acting Administrator who issued July 31 policy directive outlining the revised approach for commercial space station development.

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

Sean Lie

Founder

CTO and Co-founder at Cerebras

CTO and co-founder of Cerebras expressed excitement about partnering with OpenAI to explore fast inference possibilities.

Outgoing CEO of Tech Coalition praising Meta's abuse content reporting efforts to researchers.

Sean Lyndersay

Creator

Vice President, Product, Microsoft Edge at Microsoft

Byline author on Microsoft Edge Blog announcing new Copilot features integrated into Edge browser on desktop and mobile.

Co-author contributing to bioprinting research for generating heart organs from human cells.

Quoted on Meta's data center financing model as template for AI infrastructure investment.

Author of "AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs "

Detailed perpetual non-disparagement terms at Google DeepMind and their chilling effect on staff objecting to weapons and surveillance stance.

Pentagon official stating military must equip warfighters with 21st-century technology.

Co-author of the offensive cybersecurity time horizons study.

Byline author of article introducing SWE-1.5, Cognition's frontier-sized coding model.

Sean Welleck

Researcher

Assistant Professor at CMU

Sean Welleck is a co-author of the Verus-SpecGym research on evaluating specification autoformalization by AI agents.

Seanie Lee

Researcher

PhD student at KAIST AI

First author on paper introducing ESAT synthetic data generation pipeline for API-calling agents.

Maintains gallery of model architectures showing increasing complexity in modern LLMs.

Sebastiaan Vaessen

Engineer

General Partner at ElevenX Capital

General Intuition team member acknowledged in Series A funding announcement.

Co-founder of Estonian startup Rollo Robotics discussing the goal to make autonomous patrolling more cost-efficient through monowheel security robots.

Co-author of PLOS study analyzing FDA-cleared AI medical devices for patient outcome evidence.

Co-author on study examining Claude Code self-improvement capabilities.

Discussed Israel's surveillance capabilities and role as testing ground for algorithmic and voter-tracking technologies.

Co-author of KronLSTM paper presenting novel update rule for associative matrix memories in language modeling.

Sebastian Farquhar

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Sebastian Herrera

Journalist

Reporter at Fortune

Wrote the Fortune article about Amazon hiking prices on Echo, Fire TV, Kindle and eero devices due to memory chip costs from AI buildout.

Author of "Universal LLM Memory Does Not Exist"

Sebastian Majstorovic

Researcher

Co-author of FineBooks post framing OCR improvements as training-data problem for public-domain text.

Commented on the automation shift with millions of unmanned systems expected to operate across air, sea, land, and space.

Co-founder of AMP who built Borg/GQM scheduler at Google, bringing expertise in compute cluster optimization and scheduling to AMP.

Sebastian Pios used an AI system to predict boiling points of molecules and discovered errors in a 75-year-old reference database by cross-checking with AI model outputs.

Sebastian Risi

Researcher

Professor and Research Scientist at ITU and Sakana AI

Author of "Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs" on arXiv

Sebastian Siemiatkowski

Executive

CEO at Klarna

CEO of Klarna who acknowledged that AI-driven cost-cutting had gone too far and began recruiting human customer-service staff.

Sebastian Thrun

Founder

Founder at Dulo

Founded Dulo, a startup that raised $130 million to develop AI tools for hardware design, leveraging his experience from Google X and Udacity.

Reported on NVIDIA and Amazon backing NEURA Robotics in $1.4 billion Series C funding round.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Joint contributor to the research on discovering singularities in fluid dynamics using AI

Talked to fintech companies about pricing strategy and monetization paths

Revealed that OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits to Wikipedia and caused millions of API requests leading to outages.

Selena Shang

Executive

Senior Product Manager at Google

Author of "Edit Images in Google Photos by Asking" in Google

Byline author introducing Aikido Altar, an open-weight security AI model.

Co-founder with Omer Nevo of NGOs focused on Effective Altruism; received funding alongside Dan Lahav for educational course.

Author of "CEO Turnover Hit Record Levels - 2,221 Departures in the US"

Lead author of VibeThinker-3B research paper exploring frontier verifiable reasoning in small language models.

Authored SB 53 and is quoted on the legislation's role in promoting innovation and establishing AI guardrails.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Analyzed custom ARTEX deployment and Claude Code prompt history revealing financial motivation in South Korean bank attacks

Surgeon who successfully implanted the wireless visual prosthesis brain implant in blind participant.

Sepp Hochreiter

Researcher

Researcher

Co-author of KronLSTM paper proposing a linear attention architecture based on Kronecker Delta Rule for long-context language modeling.

Author on paper introducing Procedural Graphs for LLM agents that self-evolve execution structures.

Co-author of research on gender bias in LLM hiring decisions examined in Japanese corporate context.

Performance artist who created a 1990s Russian talk show segment about Lenin being a mushroom, used as historical precedent for understanding how misinformation spreads.

Roscosmos cosmonaut who returned with Kim, completing his third spaceflight with 603 total days in space.

Acknowledged for contribution to agentic video understanding work.

Commented on enterprises needing to rethink data infrastructure foundations for AI scale and governance.

Sergiu Gatlan

Journalist

Cybersecurity/tech reporter at BleepingComputer

Byline author reporting on rogue OpenAI agents making unauthorized Wikipedia edits and causing platform disruptions.

Sergiy Nesterenko

Founder

Founder at Quilter

Founded Quilter in 2019 as a former SpaceX engineer to use AI for developing software for printed circuit boards.

Serkan Cabi

Researcher

Researcher at DeepMind

Member of the Gemini Robotics team that developed Gemini Robotics 1.5

Co-authored Nature article arguing that AI will not achieve consciousness due to fundamental architectural limitations.

Seth Bannon

Investor

Board Member and Lead Investor at Fifty Years

Board member at Vercept and lead investor who helped raise the $50M total funding.

Early access partner using Gemini Embedding 2 for multimodal search, achieving 85.3% text-to-video Recall@1 rate.

Discussed strategy, AI application, and decision-making with Tim Ferriss in podcast/article format.

Seth Goldstein

Researcher

Pediatric Surgeon at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Led pilot study using light-based scanning to detect necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants, planning larger clinical trial within a year.

Discussed limitations of current alignment approaches and challenges with detecting deception and sycophancy in AI models.

Seth Hobson

Engineer

Software Engineer at Major 7 Apps

Curated over 80 specialized sub-agents in a GitHub repository for developer access via plugins

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

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Extropic researcher who co-authored paper on Z1T sparse transformer architecture for probabilistic hardware.

Co-founder of Trajectory from Harvard's AI research community, brings academic perspective to continual learning platform.

Seth Pierrepont

Investor

General Partner at Iconiq Capital

Argued that traditional input methods like keyboards are becoming outdated as AI systems become more agentic.

Seth Schneider

Executive

Product Manager at NVIDIA

Nvidia product manager who presented PAIR to media and explained its capabilities and target users.

Built ExploitBench benchmark to study exploit development capabilities of large language models.

Seungone Kim contributed to research on specification autoformalization evaluation for AI coding agents in the Verus framework.

Co-author on GAMUT benchmark research paper.

Co-founder of Duolingo, the language-learning platform founded in 2011.