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People in AI news

185 people named in our events, posts and videos, grouped by what they do. Each group is sorted by the number of events that name them.

Lab leaders

32 people

Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI

64 events, 42 posts, 44 videos

Elon Musk

CEO, Tesla and SpaceX (including SpaceXAI / xAI)

34 events, 12 posts, 22 videos

Dario Amodei

CEO and co-founder, Anthropic

31 events, 21 posts, 41 videos

Jensen Huang

Founder, president and CEO, NVIDIA

21 events, 8 posts, 12 videos

Demis Hassabis

Chair of Google DeepMind; Chief Scientist of Alphabet; CEO of Isomorphic Labs

19 events, 12 posts, 2 videos

Greg Brockman

President and co-founder, OpenAI

18 events, 15 posts, 6 videos

Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence (SSI)

8 events, 2 posts, 11 videos

Sundar Pichai

CEO, Google and Alphabet

8 events, 8 posts, 5 videos

Satya Nadella

Chairman and CEO, Microsoft

5 events, 4 posts, 1 video

Koray Kavukcuoglu

SVP running Google DeepMind; Chief AI Architect, Google

4 events, 3 posts, 4 videos

Lisa Su

Chair and CEO, AMD

4 events, 1 video

Alexandr Wang

Chief AI Officer, Meta; head of Meta Superintelligence Labs

3 events, 6 posts, 3 videos

Nat Friedman

Head of product, Meta Superintelligence Labs

3 events, 5 posts

Clément Delangue

Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face (being acquired by NVIDIA)

2 events, 4 posts, 1 video

Fidji Simo

Part-time advisor, OpenAI (former CEO of Applications / AGI Deployment)

2 events

Mira Murati

Co-founder and CEO, Thinking Machines Lab

2 events

Rohit Prasad

CEO, Boston Dynamics (from Oct 7, 2026)

2 events

Tom Brown

Co-founder and Chief Compute Officer, Anthropic

1 event, 2 videos

Liang Wenfeng

Founder and CEO, DeepSeek; co-founder, High-Flyer

1 event

Yang Zhilin

Co-founder and CEO, Moonshot AI (Kimi)

1 event

Researchers

72 people

Terence Tao

Professor of mathematics, UCLA

35 events, 15 posts, 8 videos

Geoffrey Hinton

University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

16 events, 1 post, 5 videos

Yoshua Bengio

Professor, Université de Montréal; founder of Mila and LawZero

16 events, 2 posts, 4 videos

Jacob Coxon

Former Anthropic pretraining researcher (resigned Sept 2026)

12 events, 5 posts, 25 videos

Levent Alpöge

Mathematician, member of technical staff, Anthropic

10 events, 7 posts, 10 videos

Timothy Gowers

Professor, Collège de France and University of Cambridge

7 events, 5 posts, 3 videos

Daniel Kokotajlo

Executive director, AI Futures Project

7 events, 2 posts, 5 videos

Chris Olah

Co-founder and interpretability researcher, Anthropic

6 events, 2 posts, 5 videos

Alex Turner

Independent alignment researcher (left Google DeepMind, 2026)

6 events, 4 posts, 2 videos

Kevin Buzzard

Professor of pure mathematics, Imperial College London

6 events, 3 posts, 1 video

Thomas Bloom

Royal Society University Research Fellow, University of Manchester; runs erdosproblems.com

6 events, 1 post

Jacob Tsimerman

AI-safety researcher, OpenAI (on leave from University of Toronto)

5 events, 1 post

Andrej Karpathy

Pre-training researcher, Anthropic (Eureka Labs paused)

4 events, 6 posts, 1 video

Daniel Litt

Assistant professor of mathematics, University of Toronto (visiting Harvard, fall 2026); commentator on AI and maths

4 events, 6 posts

Pushmeet Kohli

Chief Scientist, Google Cloud; VP of Research, Google DeepMind

4 events, 3 posts, 3 videos

Paul Christiano

Founder and executive director, Alignment Research Center; OpenAI Foundation board member; senior technical advisor, NIST CAISI

4 events, 2 videos

John Jumper

Anthropic (joined from Google DeepMind, 2026)

4 events, 1 post

Evan Hubinger

Alignment science lead, Anthropic

3 events, 2 posts, 9 videos

Nathan Lambert

Co-founder and executive director, Trillium Labs; author of Interconnects

3 events, 3 posts, 1 video

Scott Aaronson

Professor of computer science, UT Austin

3 events, 2 posts, 1 video

Shane Legg

Co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist, Google DeepMind; co-leads the DeepMind Institute

3 events, 3 posts

Yann LeCun

Founder and chair, AMI Labs; professor, NYU

3 events, 2 videos

Fei-Fei Li

Co-founder and CEO, World Labs; to become AMD EVP and Chief Scientist

3 events, 1 video

Mark Chen

Chief Research Officer, OpenAI

3 events, 1 post

Noam Shazeer

OpenAI (joined from Google, June 2026)

3 events, 1 post

Noam Brown

Researcher (reasoning), OpenAI

2 events, 3 posts, 2 videos

Neel Nanda

Mechanistic interpretability lead, Google DeepMind

2 events, 1 post, 3 videos

Geoffrey Irving

Co-founder and chief scientist, Resolution; former chief scientist, UK AI Security Institute

2 events, 2 posts, 1 video

Jan Leike

Alignment research lead, Anthropic

2 events, 2 posts

Jared Kaplan

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Anthropic

2 events, 1 post, 1 video

Steven Strogatz

Mathematician and writer, Cornell University; Leiden Declaration signatory

2 events, 1 post

Stuart Russell

Professor of computer science, UC Berkeley

2 events, 1 video

Benjamin Antieau

Mathematician (Northwestern); Executive Director, Hexagon Mathematics Foundation

2 events

Bill Peebles

Former head of Sora at OpenAI (left April 2026)

2 events

Boaz Klartag

Mathematician, Tel Aviv University and Weizmann Institute of Science

2 events

Ajeya Cotra

Risk assessment, METR

1 event, 2 posts, 4 videos

Sholto Douglas

Researcher (scaling RL), Anthropic

1 event, 1 post, 2 videos

Andrew Ng

Founder, DeepLearning.AI; co-founder, Coursera; adjunct professor, Stanford

1 event, 1 post

Graham Neubig

Associate professor, Carnegie Mellon LTI; co-founder and chief scientist, OpenHands

1 event, 1 post

Hanna Hajishirzi

VP at Microsoft AI; previously led Ai2's Olmo and Tulu open models

1 event, 1 post

John Schulman

Chief Scientist, Thinking Machines Lab

1 event, 1 post

Shengjia Zhao

Chief Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs

1 event, 1 post

Tim Dettmers

Professor, Carnegie Mellon; research scientist, Ai2

1 event, 1 post

Toby Ord

Philosopher (Oxford), author of The Precipice

1 event, 1 post

Tom Zick

Co-founder and president, Trillium Labs

1 event, 1 post

Alec Radford

Independent researcher (at OpenAI 2016-2024)

1 event

Frances Arnold

Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, Caltech

1 event

Ion Stoica

Professor, UC Berkeley; co-founder of Databricks and Anyscale

1 event

Josh Alman

Computer scientist, Columbia University

1 event

Matei Zaharia

Co-founder and CTO, Databricks; professor, UC Berkeley

1 event

Matthew Schwartz

Theoretical physicist, Harvard University; visiting researcher at Anthropic (2026)

1 event

Paolo Benanti

Franciscan theologian and AI ethicist, Pontifical Gregorian University; Vatican AI adviser

1 event

Pieter Abbeel

Leads Amazon's Frontier Model Research group; professor, UC Berkeley

1 event

Richard Sutton

Professor, University of Alberta; co-founder, Oak Lab

1 event

Timnit Gebru

Founder and executive director, DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)

1 event

Toby Walsh

Scientia Professor of AI, UNSW Sydney

1 event

Nick Bostrom

Principal Researcher, Macrostrategy Research Initiative

9 videos

Sam Bowman

AI alignment researcher, Anthropic (on leave from NYU)

1 post, 2 videos

Max Tegmark

Professor of physics, MIT; president, Future of Life Institute

Engineers

11 people

Thibault Sottiaux

Leads core product and platform, OpenAI (previously led Codex)

6 events, 8 posts, 3 videos

Peter Steinberger

Builds personal agents at OpenAI; creator of OpenClaw

2 events, 4 posts, 1 video

Logan Kilpatrick

Product lead, Google AI Studio and Gemini API

1 event, 2 posts, 3 videos

Felix Rieseberg

Engineer, Anthropic (Claude desktop app and Cowork)

1 event, 2 posts

Dave Orr

Head of Safeguards, Anthropic

1 event

Tang Tan

Chief Hardware Officer, OpenAI (co-founder of io)

1 event

Boris Cherny

Creator and head of Claude Code, Anthropic

2 posts, 5 videos

Founders

22 people

Jeff Dean

Co-founder and CEO, Discovery Loop

4 events, 3 posts, 1 video

Thomas Wolf

Co-founder and Chief Science Officer, Hugging Face

2 events, 4 posts

Sam Rodriques

Founder, FutureHouse and Edison Scientific

2 events, 2 posts

Emad Mostaque

Founder and former CEO of Stability AI (left 2024)

2 events, 1 post

Sergey Brin

Co-founder, Google; works on Gemini at Google DeepMind

2 events, 1 video

Jony Ive

Founder, LoveFrom; co-founder of io (acquired by OpenAI in 2025), leads design work on OpenAI devices

2 events

Brett Adcock

Founder and CEO, Figure AI; founder and CEO, Hark

1 event, 1 post, 1 video

Alex Atallah

Co-founder and CEO, OpenRouter (acquired by Stripe, agreement Aug 2026)

1 event, 1 post

Ben Mann

Co-founder of Anthropic; co-leads Anthropic Labs

1 event, 1 video

Quoc Le

Co-founder, Discovery Loop

1 event, 1 post

Scott Wu

Co-founder and CEO, Cognition

1 event, 1 post

Eric Ho

CEO and co-founder, Goodfire

1 event

Jonathan Ross

Groq founder; joined Nvidia in the Dec 2025 licensing/acqui-hire deal

1 event

Investors

7 people

David Sacks

Co-chair, PCAST; general partner, Craft Ventures

8 events, 1 post, 3 videos

Peter Thiel

Investor; co-founder and chairman of Palantir, co-founder of PayPal and Founders Fund

5 events, 1 post

Masayoshi Son

Founder, chairman and CEO, SoftBank Group; chairman of Stargate LLC

3 events

Sean Parker

Investor and board chairman, Stability AI; Napster co-founder

1 event

Policy

27 people

Donald Trump

President of the United States

49 events, 20 posts, 30 videos

Michael Kratsios

Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

9 events

Pete Hegseth

US Secretary of Defense

7 events, 4 posts, 2 videos

Jack Clark

Co-founder, Anthropic; author of Import AI

6 events, 2 posts, 2 videos

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China

5 events, 2 videos

David Robinson

Former OpenAI safety lead (resigned Oct 2026); earlier OpenAI's head of policy planning

4 events, 3 posts, 2 videos

Sriram Krishnan

Former Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI (2025-June 2026)

4 events, 2 posts, 1 video

Ro Khanna

US Representative, California's 17th district

4 events

Jay Clayton

Director of National Intelligence; White House AI czar (chair of the 'Super Intelligence Force')

3 events, 2 posts, 3 videos

Ted Cruz

US Senator from Texas; chair, Senate Commerce Committee

2 events, 2 videos

Ted Lieu

US Representative, California's 36th district

2 events, 1 post, 1 video

JD Vance

Vice President of the United States

2 events, 1 video

Andy Burnham

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1 event, 1 post

Dean Ball

Head of Strategic Futures, OpenAI

1 event, 1 video

Alex Bores

New York State Assemblymember (D); sponsor of the RAISE Act

1 event

Arati Prabhakar

Former Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

1 event

Henna Virkkunen

Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European Commission

1 event

Jeff Bleich

Anthropic executive (described as special envoy by Reuters and general counsel by Forbes Australia); former US ambassador to Australia

1 event

Robbie Torney

Head of AI & Digital Assessments, Common Sense Media Youth AI Safety Institute

1 event

Commentators

10 people

Simon Willison

Independent developer and blogger (simonwillison.net); co-creator of Django

26 events, 11 posts, 1 video

Zvi Mowshowitz

Writer, 'Don't Worry About the Vase'

24 events, 15 posts, 1 video

Gary Marcus

Cognitive scientist and author; professor emeritus, NYU

8 events, 12 posts, 3 videos

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Founder and research fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)

3 events, 4 posts, 10 videos

Kevin Roose

Tech journalist, The New York Times; author of 'The AGI Chronicles'

2 events, 4 posts

Dylan Patel

Founder and chief analyst, SemiAnalysis

1 event

roon

Pseudonymous AI commentator on X, widely reported to work at OpenAI (affiliation not stated in his bio)

2 posts, 3 videos

Ethan Mollick

Associate professor, Wharton School

1 post, 2 videos

Other

4 people

Pope Leo XIV

Pope, head of the Catholic Church

8 events, 2 posts, 3 videos

Kevin Weil

Former CPO and head of OpenAI for Science (left April 2026)

4 events, 1 post

Bill Gates

Co-founder, Microsoft; chair, Gates Foundation

2 events, 3 videos