Here we feature prominent researchers, leaders, and innovators in the field of artificial intelligence. We also have a special section for Women in AI.
Jürgen Schmidhuber
A pioneer of modern deep learning, Jürgen Schmidhuber’s work shaped LSTMs and influenced many of today’s major advances in AI.
Michael Timothy Bennett
Michael Timothy Bennett examines AI, human identity, and emerging intelligence, offering clear insight into our rapidly changing technological future.
Tim Scarfe
Tim Scarfe is known for sharp, thoughtful discussions on AI, bridging research and real world impact while making complex ideas feel clear and engaging.
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter studies how intelligence arises from analogy, recursion, and the strange loops that shape human thought, influencing how we understand minds and machines.
Roman Yampolskiy
A leading voice on AI safety, known for examining superintelligence risks and urging stronger safeguards around rapidly advancing technologies.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Eliezer Yudkowsky is a leading voice in AI safety, known for his clear writing, rational thinking, and influential work on alignment and long term AI risk.
Igor Babuschkin
A leading engineer behind xAI’s early breakthroughs, known for shaping reliable large language models and advancing the frontier of open AI research.
Blaise Agüera
A leading voice in AI research, exploring ethics, creativity, and the future of intelligence with a focus on transparency and responsible systems.
Connor Leahy
A leading voice in open AI research, Connor Leahy is known for challenging assumptions, pushing for transparency, and shaping the debate on alignment and the future of powerful models.
Aravind Srinivas
A rising voice in modern AI, focused on building transparent, accurate, human centered systems that push the field forward while staying grounded in real world needs.
Mira Murati
Mira Murati has been a central figure in advancing modern AI, guiding OpenAI through rapid growth with a focus on safety, innovation, and real world impact.
Jensen Huang
Jensen Huang transformed NVIDIA into the engine of the AI revolution, driving breakthroughs that power today’s top models.
Norbert Wiener
Norbert Wiener pioneered cybernetics, shaping modern computing and control theory, and his ideas on automation and ethics still influence AI today.
Arthur Samuel
Arthur Samuel pioneered machine learning by creating systems that improved through experience. His work on self-learning checkers helped define how modern AI learns and adapts.
François Chollet
François Chollet is a pioneering deep learning researcher known for creating Keras and driving practical, human-aligned approaches to AI that focus on robustness and understanding intelligence.
John McCarthy
John McCarthy was a pioneering computer scientist who coined the term artificial intelligence and created LISP, shaping the foundations of modern AI research.
Jakub Pachocki
Jakub Pachocki is a key voice in today’s AI landscape, shaping breakthroughs in deep learning and steering research that influences how modern AI systems are built.
Lex Fridman
Lex Fridman is an AI researcher and podcaster known for thoughtful conversations on science, technology, and the human side of artificial intelligence.
Yannic Kilcher
A sharp voice in the AI world, Yannic Kilcher is known for breaking down complex research and sparking debate across the machine learning community.
We welcome suggestions to prioritize additions to this collection of great people.
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.