Here we feature prominent researchers, leaders, and innovators in the field of artificial intelligence. We also have a special section for Women in AI.
Sam Altman
A central figure in modern AI, known for driving rapid progress while pushing for responsible development and global access to powerful models.
Douglas Lenat
Douglas Lenat spent his life pursuing machines that could reason about the world through rich symbolic knowledge. His Cyc project became one of the most ambitious efforts to encode common sense into AI, influencing decades of research.
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking reshaped modern cosmology with his insights into black holes, quantum physics, and the origins of the universe, leaving a legacy of curiosity and wonder.
Peter Norvig
A leading figure in AI, Peter Norvig has shaped modern research and education through influential work, widely used textbooks, and a commitment to practical, thoughtful innovation.
Tomi Poutanen
Tomi Poutanen is an AI entrepreneur and researcher known for advancing search, language technology, and the development of pioneering machine intelligence companies.
Ashish Vaswani
Ashish Vaswani is a key figure in modern AI, best known for co-creating the Transformer, the architecture that unlocked today’s most powerful language models.
Max Tegmark
A physicist and AI researcher known for exploring how advanced intelligence shapes our future, focusing on safety, consciousness, and humanity’s long term path.
Emad Mostaque
Emad Mostaque is known for championing open source AI and pushing for accessible, transparent models that shift power from big tech to developers.
Stuart Russell
A pioneering researcher known for shaping the field of AI alignment and championing safer, more human centered artificial intelligence.
Yoshua Bengio
Yoshua Bengio is a leading figure in deep learning whose work has shaped modern AI and continues to guide breakthroughs across the field.
Terry Sejnowski
Terry Sejnowski is a leading figure in neuroscience and machine learning, known for shaping early neural network research and influencing the future of AI.
Fei-Fei Li
Fei-Fei Li is a pioneer in computer vision and human centered AI, whose research and leadership continue to guide the future of ethical, impactful artificial intelligence.
Stephen Wolfram
Stephen Wolfram is a leading figure in computational science, known for Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, and work showing how simple rules create complex systems.
Alan Turing
Alan Turing transformed computing and helped shape early AI through groundbreaking ideas in mathematics, cryptography, and machine intelligence.
Adam Cheyer
Adam Cheyer is an AI innovator known for cofounding Siri and advancing conversational technology and human focused intelligent systems.
Karthik Narasimhan
Karthik Narasimhan is a researcher pushing machine learning forward through work on natural language understanding and adaptive AI systems.
Sasha Luccioni
Sasha Luccioni is a leading researcher focused on ethical AI and climate impact, known for her work measuring the environmental footprint of modern AI systems.
Satya Nadella
Satya Nadella guided Microsoft into a new era of cloud growth and responsible AI, reshaping its culture and global reach with a calm, people-first approach.
We welcome suggestions to prioritize additions to this collection of great people.
Featured Legends of AI
We use the following prompt to create the basic outline for the profiles listed here (we use ChatGPT Atlas, supplemented with Perplexity information in recent news): Write a post about this person with an introduction paragraph, followed by details about this person, followed by a bullet list of key achievements. Do not include links in the copy. Insert a 1-sentence TL;DR at the beginning.
This is the current Sora prompt we use to create the profile images: Create a well-lit, well-composed color portrait photo of this person wearing a dark blue suit with a black cinema curtain background.
And this one for group shots: Create a well-lit, well-composed color group portrait photo of these people wearing dark blue clothes against a black cinema curtain background.
We also use NotebookLM for experimental infographics with the following prompt: Use #111111 as the background color, white as the main color, and #4d87ff as the accent color.