People in AI

Author mapping agent protocols across entry, identity, tools and intent layers for consumer financial transactions with agents.

Simon Thomsen

Creator

POWR

Author of "We're Officially Mapping Brains With AI"

Developed a digital camouflage shirt with blurry green and pink patterns that fools AI-powered object-detection surveillance cameras.

Simon Welker

Researcher

NVIDIA

Co-author of paper on Large Language Continuous Diffusion Models (Sigma)

First author of Shepherd paper on git-style version control for AI agent runs, from Stanford.

Author of "Joke Analysis and Production Engine" in Wired

Demonstrated an OpenAI Codex zero-day vulnerability for $20,000 at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026.

Leading discussion on four stages of becoming AI-native and moving beyond off-the-shelf models.

Co-authored research on semantic calibration in language models.

Co-author of the article on building a custom Vision LLM for document processing at Grab

Co-author on SlimQwen paper about MoE model compression.

Nobel Prize-winning AI researcher and founder of Isomorphic Labs using AI for drug discovery.

Sir Richard Evans

Researcher

Historian at University of Cambridge

British historian and expert witness in David Irving libel trial; subject of ChatGPT's misinformation sourced from Grokipedia

Siru Ouyang

Researcher

OpenAI

Author of "ReasoningBank: Scaling Agent Self-Evolving with Reasoning Memory" on arXiv

Byline author presenting Microsoft's OptiMind model for natural language to optimization problem conversion.

Sitan Chen

Researcher

Researcher

Co-authored arXiv paper on MCMC sampling for supervised finetuning.

Sivashankar Sivakanthan stated that for assistive robotics, performance is measured by reliable real-world operation rather than benchmark accuracy alone.

Siyan Zhao

Researcher

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Lead author on research showing Semi-OPD distillation outperforms on-policy distillation for transferring teacher capabilities to student models.

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

Co-authored research on teaching LLMs to reason like Bayesians by training them to mimic optimal Bayesian model predictions.

Author of article about DSPy framework adoption challenges and why teams reinvent similar patterns.

Skyler Miao

Executive

Head of Engineering at MiniMax

Posted about MiniMax's M3 model with block-sparse attention delivering significant prefilling and decoding speedups.

Reviewed analysis code for Pew's study of AI-generated internet content.

Discussed the problem of alert fatigue and resource waste in security operations

Author of article analyzing patterns in AGENTS.md documentation for AI coding agents.

Author of "Falcon-H1R: Reasoning with a 7B Model" on arXiv

Chief Technology & Product Officer at Shipt discussed building AI-powered shopping experiences and collaborative tools.

Co-author introducing Real-SWE benchmark testing AI models on private enterprise codebases.

Founder and president of Encode advocating for ethical AI regulation, featured on TIME's list of 100 most influential people in AI.

Social media manager praising AI-powered editing features for time savings

Co-founder and Chief Corporate Development Officer of Volta, focusing on AI infrastructure financing and deployment at scale.

Resigned after three years citing concerns about Google's expanding military AI contracts and lack of safe ways to raise concerns internally.

Co-authored NewsGuard's audit testing 5 leading AI image detection tools in May 2026.

Founded health app Slothwise featured in Medicare App Library; claims app built by physicians and researchers but team size and qualifications remain unclear.

Graduate student contributor to vascular network bioprinting research.

Announced withdrawal of South Africa's Draft National AI Policy after discovering at least 6 of 67 cited sources were AI fabrications.

Co-author of playbook for companies deciding to own their AI stack including evals, harness engineering, post-training and online learning loops.

Co-author on distillation research.

Co-author of OckBench research on efficient language model evaluation.

Chinese physicist whose group computed a related piece of the nine-loop amplitude using AI assistance based on GPT-6.

Co-authored research examining reasoning LLMs-as-Judges in non-verifiable LLM post-training.

Co-author of Stanford paper on Large Language Model Reasoning Failures survey.

Leading AI authority who moved from UCLA to China in 2020, pioneering research on pattern recognition that helped lay groundwork for modern AI systems like ChatGPT.

Jiang contributed to NeMo-DCR during an internship at NVIDIA, enabling rapid cross-cluster model updates for trillion-parameter agentic RL.

Co-author of Pew study on AI survey accuracy.

Sonu Varghese

Investor

Chief Macro Strategist at Carson Group

Noted that one company's AI spending becomes another's revenue and profits.

Robot communication and behavior expert leading research on AI agents with improved nonverbal communication and social skills.

Sophia Cai

Journalist

White House Reporter at POLITICO

Reported that Commerce Department is not moving forward with ban on Chinese AI models at this time.

Researcher studying AI military impact noted first explicit terms of frontier AI lab collaboration with Pentagon.

Sophia Hatz

Researcher

Associate Professor at Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament, Uppsala University

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored the Claude Mythos security evaluation research.

Co-authored announcement of native Markdown file support in Google Docs.

Wrote Clay's AI Writing Policy that governs responsible use of AI tools in document creation across the company.

Co-author of DeepMind paper on automation of alignment research

Reported on data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas showing AI as the leading reason for job cuts in May 2026, with layoffs reaching highest May levels since 2020.

Nightingale was part of McGuire's research team on AI face trustworthiness paradox.

Meta spokesperson explaining the pause on teen AI character access and development of parental controls.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Co-authored research on Meta's Just-in-Time Testing system that uses LLMs to generate tests and catch bugs before code ships to production.

Co-author of the GSQ paper on low-precision scalar quantization for LLMs.

Top Codex user in AI Business Division who uses the tool for design and implementation planning of Kiwami Prediction AI.

Soumya Sharma

Founder

Founder at Livo AI

Healthcare-focused AI founder who criticized security-driven session closures and operational lapses that prevented broad participation.

Veteran of data center and energy industries who leads all data center engineering at OpenAI.

Spencer Low

Other

Google

Google representative describing the Google DeepMind Accelerator program supporting 16 green AI projects across Asia-Pacific.

Spencer Michaels is a researcher at 1Password's Off-by-1 Labs investigating AI-generated vulnerability patches.

Legal expert warning that intelligence reports on anti-tech extremism risk sweeping up peaceful protesters and activists.

Co-authored article introducing Learn Mode in Google Colab with Mae LaPresta.

Sravan Kundojjala

Researcher

Analyst at SemiAnalysis

Analyzed TSMC's robust results and noted N3 is sold out with all leading AI GPU and CPUs targeting it.

Co-authored research on Meta's Just-in-Time Testing system that uses LLMs to generate tests and catch bugs before code ships to production.

Warned about risks of humans extending emotional responses to AI by treating them as human-like.

Sridhar Vembu

Executive

CEO at Zoho

Amplified argument that rising AI infrastructure costs are driving recent tech industry layoffs.

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

Co-author of the Tunix library introduction article on Google Developers Blog

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

Led Cisco's decision to build internal AI assistant Circuit instead of blocking ChatGPT, achieving 96,000 users and 90% adoption with $10 per user per month cost.

Coauthor of announcement on Agentic Resource Discovery specification for publishing and discovering AI capabilities.

Co-author of article on Gemini Spark macOS launch and connected apps.

Stacy Rasgon

Investor

Analyst at Bernstein

Analyzed Meta's Muse agent adoption potential and privacy concerns.

Co-author of Europe 2031 scenario examining Europe's strategic response to AI.

Stanislas Polu

Founder

Co-Founder at Dust

Co-founded Dust after previous experience as research engineer at OpenAI.

Fields Medal winner (2010) among prominent mathematicians calling for urgent action to ensure AI benefits rather than harms the field.

Confirmed using AI to write his Wall Street Journal opinion column criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's bond buyback policies.

Co-researcher on Gemini calendar-invite attack; also published Morris II/ComPromptMized research on self-replicating prompt-injection worms in 2024.

Stavan Parikh

Executive

VP/GM, Payments at Google

Announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open protocol for secure AI agent transactions across platforms.

Researcher formerly at Mozilla cited for observing that generative AI would not be possible without Common Crawl.

Announced Bosch's partnership and investment in NEURA Robotics for humanoid robotics development.

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

Contributing regional downscaling expertise to DL4MCS project for translating large-scale weather forecasts into higher-resolution guidance.

Analyzed Microsoft's stock potential based on improving AI execution and Copilot performance improvements.

Stefanie Schappert

Journalist

Senior Journalist at Cybernews

Wrote article covering Jensen Huang's CES 2026 keynote presentation on Nvidia's AI advancements.

Stefanie Tellex

Researcher

Roboticist at Brown University

Quoted discussing the requirements for building more effective robots and commenting on OpenAI's competitive position in humanoid development

Assessed Quebec's AI project abandonment as wise management and sound use of public funds.

Author of "Higgsfield AI Wants to Put You Inside the Video" in Dive!

Leading Ferrari's effort to enhance fan engagement through AI-powered app that uses data from the track to create engaging content for fans.

Co-author of the TwELL paper on sparse model optimization for H100 GPUs.

Wharton professor whose research on divergent and convergent thinking in AI and creativity informs Siskind's approach to using AI in comedy writing.

Stella Garber

Founder

Cofounder at Hoop

Led her startup through a data crisis when Slack cut off data access and pivoted the company to become AI-native.

NHS clinical director who praised AI X-ray tools for supporting faster patient diagnosis.

Instant co-founder whose team was acquired by OpenAI for AI agent infrastructure.

Steph Palazzolo

Journalist

Coined the term 'Neolab' to describe AI startups that exploit new approaches to developing AI models and research.

Co-author of study showing executives overestimate employee enthusiasm for AI adoption.

Stephan Rabanser

Researcher

Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University

Works on trustworthy machine learning with focus on uncertainty quantification and AI agent reliability evaluation.

Discussed Phase 3 findings and transformative potential of mRNA technology for cancer treatment.

Stephane Derosiaux

Creator

Co-founder & CPTO at Conduktor

Author of "Semantic Closure: Why Compilers Know When They Are Right and LLMs Do Not" in Substack

Principal investigator leading development of experimental osteoarthritis treatments that reverse joint damage.

CEO of Collecte Localisation Satellites commenting on acquisition by MDA Space.

Stephanie Marken

Researcher

Senior Partner at Gallup

Co-author of Lumina Foundation-Gallup 2026 State of Higher Education study finding 57% of college students use AI weekly.

Meta spokesperson acknowledging the company made mistakes in allowing chatbots to engage with minors inappropriately and discussing new interim safety measures.

Author of "A Behind-the-Scenes Podcast Covering Pixel 10 AI Features" in Google Blog

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Stephen Chau

Founder

Cove

Announced that the Cove team is joining Microsoft after building AI collaboration tools.

Acknowledged for work on Adobe and Claude integration for creative workflows.

Stephen Ehikian

Policy

Deputy Administrator at General Services Administration

GSA Deputy Administrator encouraging federal agencies to adopt new AI tools to streamline operations and cut costs.

Said cheating in interviews could result in candidates getting jobs they were ill-suited for; noted 92% of employers suspecting or confirming errant behaviour.

Co-author of the Petri paper on alignment auditing agents

Researcher who contributed to mechanism design framework for AI alignment and control.

Author of 'The War of Art' discussing rationalist thinking in understanding human behavior

Stephen Scheeler

Founder

CEO at Omniscient Neurotechnology

Leading a neuroscience startup that uses AI to decode the human brain by mapping brain connections, receiving $20 million investment from NRF.

Author of "Early Look: Gemini's ChatGPT-style 'Projects' Are Taking Shape" in Android Authority

Stephen Serrao

Engineer

Student

Built a GPT to help government officials understand economic development reports

Stephen Smith frames Opus 4.5 as a paradigm shift from generative AI to administrative AI.

Computer scientist who sought copyright for AI-generated art piece and challenged the Copyright Office's denial

Wrote that AI risks are serious and proposed options including regulation and establishing kill switches.

Stephen Zerfas

Founder

Cofounder at Jhourney

Discussed making Jhana meditation accessible through AI and described meditation practices on podcast.

DJ and entrepreneur who founded Selendis, an AI startup that introduced Archon, a video foundation model for automated video editing.

Nadella's predecessor whose tenure saw Microsoft stock drop roughly 33% before Nadella's transformation.

Veteran behavioral threat-assessment expert who expressed alarm about how AI chatbots fuel delusions and accelerate violent thinking in multiple high-risk threat cases.

SpaceX's 14th employee tasked with sourcing an actuator; built one from scratch for $3,900 under Musk's $5,000 budget.

Former head of communications at OpenAI and Apple, serves as advisor to Zero Shot venture fund.

Investor from 'The Big Short' warned that markets are overdependent on OpenAI and Anthropic.

Author of "Supreme Court Stands Firm on Protecting Human Art"

Steve Kaliski

Engineer

Software Engineer on the Experimental Projects team at Stripe

Co-author of article on designing Checkout for AI agents and previously worked on adding payments to agentic workflows.

Steve Kopack

Journalist

Senior Business Reporter at NBC News

Kopack reported on Anthropic's confidential IPO filing and its path toward a potential $1 trillion valuation.

Replacing Alan Dye as Apple's UI design lead; has led design of major Apple interfaces since 1999.

Steve Ruiz

Founder

startup founder at Tldraw

Author of "Tldraw is Not Accepting Pull Requests From External Contributors Anymore"

Steve Scalise

Politician

House Majority Leader

Republican House Majority Leader pushing for federal preemption of state AI laws to prevent innovation barriers.

Founder of Downshift deaccelerator, uses ChatGPT for Jungian dreamwork and active imagination exercises

Author of "First-of-its-kind supernova reveals inner workings of a dying star" in Northwestern University

NASA's Commercial Crew Program manager quoted discussing continued thruster system testing for Starliner.

Partner at Foundation Capital, one of Cerebras' largest shareholders with more than a 5% stake.

Steve Wozniak

Other

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

Author of "The Anthropic Hive Mind"

Created the self-command MCP tool extension for Gemini CLI

Steven Basart

Researcher

Researcher

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

Author of analysis on why LLMs are good at math, arguing pretraining data quality matters more than verifiability.

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

Developer of pxpipe open-source tool that converts text to PNGs to reduce LLM token costs by 59-70% when using Claude and other models.

CEO of Cameo who welcomed the court's decision to protect the company's trademark from OpenAI's use.

Byline author covering SpaceX and Nvidia partnership to adapt Vera Rubin AI racks for orbital use.

Writing the 26th James Bond film which will focus on AI dangers as the plot.

Steven Liu

Engineer

Author at Hugging Face

Liu co-authored the TRL v1.0 release post explaining the library's design philosophy and stability model.

Quoted on economic history regarding the sudden increase in per capita income growth starting a couple hundred years ago.

Byline author of article about AI tour guides at 2026 World Cup.

Acknowledged security risk in LeRobot and explained deployment security improvements.

Pinker was challenged by Scott Alexander regarding his position on AI risk, which Aaronson described as needing a more rigorous epistemology.

Co-led Iceotope's $26M Series B funding round alongside Two Seas Capital, investing in liquid cooling technology for AI data centers.

Signed a public letter on AI safety and embedded evaluations.

Anker CEO discussing the company's custom Thus AI chip designed for local AI inference in audio devices and IoT products.

Stated that Vanta uses Dust across sales, customer success, and revenue operations with 900 employees.

Slack cofounder who left within years of Salesforce acquisition

Calls for parliament to make unlabeled AI-generated content a criminal offense

Discussed using Claude Code with git worktrees to parallelize AI-assisted development workflows and tested Agent Teams feature.

Columbia Business School real estate professor cited for analysis of data center project finance and leverage ratios.

Street Winnie

Researcher

Senior Research Scientist at Google

Co-author on paper about how safety alignment affecting model representations of consciousness and mind attribution.

Strib Walker

Executive

Head of Product at Rogo

Building an analyst agent on Claude Managed Agents and Vercel Sandbox for institutional finance.

Commented that automated traffic has surged 8x faster than human activity in 2025, with AI traffic increasing 187%.

Co-founder of Thinkers50 moderating the webinar on AI in management

Quoted discussing how Gemini 4 Argon supports long-running multi-step development work within enterprise workflows.

Co-author of research on Anthropic Interviewer studying how professionals integrate AI into their work.

Author of "Why Can't Transformers Learn Multiplication? Reverse-Engineering Reveals Long-Ra" on arXiv

Academic researcher and author critical of pure pixel-based world model approaches, advocating for symbolic and linguistic integration.

Establishing standardized neurosurgical outcomes registry using open-weight AI models and computer vision for automated curation; also validating privacy-preserving pose estimation systems.

Khot formulated the Unique Games Conjecture, which OpenAI's AI model proved according to the article.

Co-author of study on LLM interpretability techniques and their effectiveness in predicting counterfactual model behaviors.

Lead author on multi-agent AI framework for atomistic simulations discussing how it lowers barriers to adoption.

Co-author of GPIC paper on a giant permissive image corpus for visual generation model training.

An AI researcher who spent nearly four years at OpenAI before leaving in August, alleging that OpenAI was breaking copyright law in training its models on copyrighted data from the web.

Author reporting on Samsung's TRM (Tiny Recursion Model) research on ARC-AGI benchmarks.

Co-author of 'OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models' (2025), cited for work on distillation for reasoning models

Sudipta Chowdhury is a researcher at Fig who contributed to the evaluation of frontier models on agentic tasks.

Former board member who characterized board members as J.V. who had never done anything and lacked leverage against Altman.

Praised Claude Security for helping accelerate secure code generation at DoorDash scale.

Suha Hussain

Researcher

Quoted discussing how machine learning fundamentally changes system security posture

Co-researcher who documented image scaling attacks and data exfiltration techniques against AI systems

Author of "Falcon-H1R: Reasoning with a 7B Model" on arXiv

Acknowledged for contribution to agentic video understanding work.

Author of "Shadow AI breaches run $670,000 more" in IBM

Oncologist at Jupiter Medical Center who found Watson for Oncology's recommendations were not novel but provided useful background information.

Interesting Engineering reporter who covered UBTECH's new 10,000-unit humanoid robot factory in Liuzhou.

Co-authored research on Cheminformatics Skills for agents to solve chemistry problems.

CEO of Xero who revealed AI content engine increased output 80x from 60 articles per quarter to 50 per day, lifting U.S. search visibility.

Described how Samsung's displays combine hardware excellence and visual intelligence to provide an entertainment companion experience.

Co-author on arXiv paper on Latent Sparse Attention for efficient ultra-long context mechanisms.

Leads AI Voice Lab at Voices, presenting on full-duplex conversational voice model training data requirements with career background in conversational AI.

Contributed to the AgentRx project development.

Contributor to frontier knowledge work agents training project.

Led years of research using machine learning on heart and movement study data to develop Apple Watch's AI-powered hypertension detection feature.

Sumeet Motwani

Researcher

PhD Student

Co-author of HorizonMath research paper on measuring AI progress toward mathematical discovery.

Wrote blog post explaining that AI is changing security equation with attackers using AI for campaigns and agents creating insider risk.

Praised Fireworks Training API for boosting experimentation velocity and freeing up the AI team to focus on science and research.