Ramez Naam

I like to train large deep neural nets. Previously Director of AI @ Tesla, founding team @ OpenAI, PhD @ Stanford.

Sam Altman

@sama

FOUNDER

AI is cool i guess

#60

Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

@jaschasd

Member of the technical staff @ Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamics.

#90

Logan Kilpatrick

@OfficialLoganK

ENGINEER

Member of technical staff, working on @GoogleAIStudio, the Gemini API, & Kaggle. My views!

#131

John Carmack

@ID_AA_Carmack

AGI at Keen Technologies, former CTO Oculus VR, Founder Id Software and Armadillo Aerospace

#133

Boaz Barak

@boazbaraktcs

ACADEMIC

Computer Scientist. See also http://windowsontheory.org . @harvard @openai opinions my own.

#215

Stephanie Chan

@scychan_brains

Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind. Artificial & biological brains 🤖 🧠 Societal impacts of AI + Science of AI. Views are my own.

#229

Bob McGrew

@bobmcgrewai

Learning new things. Former Chief Research Officer at OpenAI, early exec at Palantir, early employee at Paypal.

#250

Richard Ngo

@RichardMCNgo

natural philosopher

#316

Hattie Zhou

@oh_that_hat

Building friendly AI. Give me anonymous feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/hattiezhou

#347

Geoffrey Irving

@geoffreyirving

Chief Scientist at the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). Previously DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, etc.

#391

Helen Toner

@hlntnr

POLICY

AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @CSETGeorgetown (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: http://helentoner.substack.com

#392

Dean W. Ball

@deanwball

POLICY

Leap into the boundless and make it your home

#393

Kristian Lum

@KLdivergence

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind | @FAccTConference OG | Past Twitter META, @hrdag & UPenn, UChicago faculty |

#404

Feryal

@FeryalMP

Staff Research Scientist @DeepMind, Self-improvement in Gemini ♊️

#445

Yao Fu

@Francis_YAO_

Scaling @xAI. Previously Gemini 3 perception and project Astra @GoogleDeepMind

#524

Shivon Zilis

@shivon

EXECUTIVE

Artificial intelligence, biological intelligence, and whatever exists in between and beyond. Made in Canada.

#531

Jason Yosinski

@jasonyo

Running experiments @OpenAI + @ml_collective. Prev: @Windscape_AI, Uber AI Labs founding team, adviser @RecursionPharma, Cornell, Montreal, Caltech 🌻

#558

Evan Hubinger

@EvanHub

Alignment Stress-Testing lead @AnthropicAI. Opinions my own. Previously: MIRI, OpenAI, Google, Yelp, Ripple. (he/him/his)

#661

Ross Wightman

@wightmanr

OPEN SOURCE

AI / Computer Vision. Ex head of Software, Firmware Engineering at a Canadian 🦄. Building AI systems or investing in startups that do it better.

#719

Adrien Ecoffet

@AdrienLE

Trying to make AGI go well. Researcher at @openai. Views my own.

#751

Tao Xu

@txhf

Learning Machine at OpenAI

#764

Kai-Fu Lee

@kaifulee

FOUNDER

#AI Expert, CEO of @01ai_yi and Chairman of 创新工场 @sinovationvc, former President of Google China, Author of AI 2041 and NYT Bestseller AI Superpowers

#765

Ted Sanders

@sandersted

Research at OpenAI. Be kind to others, and yourself.

#830

William MacAskill

@willmacaskill

Consider donating 10% to effective charities: http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge Or a career for impact: http://80000hours.org My research: http://forethought.org

#887

Robin Hanson

@robinhanson

ACADEMIC

Let’s skip witty banter & talk deep Qs. Books: http://ageofem.com http://elephantinthebrain.com Chief Scientist @_futarchy Advisor @MetaDAOProject @butterygg

#927

Daniel

@growing_daniel

CREATOR

I’m asking you to do something well

#935

Joe Carlsmith

@jkcarlsmith

Philosophy, futurism, AI. Working on Claude's values @AnthropicAI. Formerly @coeff_giving. Opinions my own.

#937

Tristan Hume

@trishume

Performance optimization lead @AnthropicAI. Profiling, distributed systems, dev tools, interpretability. tristan@thume.ca

#964

Ross

@rpoo

#1014

Jon Gauthier

@j_gauthier

ACADEMIC

Cognitive neuroscientist. Postdoc at UCSF. Formerly @mitbrainandcog, @StanfordNLP, @OpenAI, @GoogleBrain. NLP, linguistics, ML, neuroscience, biking!

#1040

Toby Shevlane

@tshevl

FOUNDER

@_Mantic_AI cofounder & CEO, on a mission to solve forecasting. Prev: research scientist @GoogleDeepMind, PhD at @UniofOxford.

#1082

Guido van Rossum

@gvanrossum

OPEN SOURCE

Python's BDFL-emeritus, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, Computer History Fellow, fully vaccinated. Opinions are my own. He/him.

#1115

Rob Wiblin

@robertwiblin

CREATOR

Host of the 80,000 Hours Podcast. Exploring the inviolate sphere of ideas one interview at a time: http://80000hours.org/podcast/

#1125

Boz

@boztank

EXECUTIVE

CTO @Meta. Leading Reality Labs and working on AR, VR, AI, and more. Built v1 of FB News Feed, Messenger, Groups, Mobile Ads. TweetDelete 6mo

#1127

Allan Dafoe

@AllanDafoe

AGI governance: navigating the transition to beneficial AGI (Google DeepMind)

#1176

Lenny Rachitsky

@lennysan

CREATOR

Deeply researched product, growth, and career advice

#1187

Nikhil Thorat

@nsthorat