Safety & governance People

Geoffrey Hinton is a computer scientist born in London whose research on neural networks, including back-propagation and deep convolutional networks, is central to deep learning. He shared the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award and the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Canadian computer scientist whose work on sequence models, word embeddings and attention helped lay foundations for modern language models. He shared the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

Dario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic. He previously worked at OpenAI, where he was Vice President of Research and co-authored the GPT-2 paper and led the research for GPT-3.

Israeli-Canadian computer scientist born in 1986 who co-built AlexNet, co-founded OpenAI and served as its chief scientist, and later founded Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Mustafa Suleyman is a British AI entrepreneur who co-founded DeepMind and Inflection AI, and in 2024 became chief executive of Microsoft AI, leading its Copilot and in-house model work.

Daniela Amodei is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Anthropic, where she serves as President and leads teams focused on AI safety and alignment. She previously worked at Stripe and OpenAI.

American AI researcher who co-founded OpenAI, led its reinforcement-learning team and helped develop the training methods behind ChatGPT; he later moved to Anthropic and then became chief scientist of Thinking Machines Lab.

Jakub Pachocki is OpenAI's chief scientist. He joined the company in 2017, led work on GPT-4 and OpenAI Five, and helped refocus its research on scaling deep learning systems.

Chris Olah is a Canadian machine learning researcher and co-founder of Anthropic, known for work on mechanistic interpretability, the effort to understand the internal workings of neural networks.

Jared Kaplan is a physicist turned AI researcher who co-founded Anthropic and serves as its Chief Science Officer. He was first author of the 2020 paper “Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models.”

Jan Leike is an AI alignment researcher who joined Anthropic in May 2024 after leaving OpenAI, where he had co-led the superalignment project with Ilya Sutskever.

American politician born in San Francisco in 1967; founder of the PlumpJack Group, former mayor of San Francisco, and California's 40th governor, who has both signed and declined to sign frontier-AI legislation.

Shane Legg is a New Zealand AI researcher and co-founder of DeepMind, known for helping popularise the term "artificial general intelligence" and for leading the company's AGI safety work.

Aicha Evans is chief executive of Zoox, the autonomous ride-hailing company Amazon acquired, and stayed on to lead it as a standalone business after the deal.

Jack Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic, where he has led policy and later public-benefit work and, from March 2026, the Anthropic Institute. He is also a co-author of the GPT-3 paper.

Connor Leahy is a German-American AI researcher and AI-safety advocate. He co-founded EleutherAI in 2020, co-founded the AI-safety company Conjecture, and in 2026 became US Director of the advocacy group ControlAI.

Kyle Vogt is identified in General Motors' March 2016 announcement as the founder of Cruise Automation, the San Francisco startup GM acquired; the company he founded later ran driverless passenger service in San Francisco until California regulators suspended its permits in October 2023.

Jesse Levinson is a co-founder and chief technology officer of Zoox, the autonomous ride-hailing company acquired by Amazon, where he continued to lead after the deal.

Lilian Weng is an AI researcher whose main public writing is her blog Lil'Log, which has carried her learning notes since 2017. Chinese-language coverage describes her as a Peking University alumna and reports on her years at OpenAI and her later moves.

Sam McCandlish is a co-founder and chief technology officer of Anthropic, a co-author of influential work on scaling laws and GPT-3, and the company's first Responsible Scaling Officer.