Voices That Shape AI
What 23 leading researchers, founders, and ethicists are saying right now — tracked daily from their writing, talks, and news coverage. Agree or disagree? Cast an anonymous vote on their latest takes.
Academic Researchers
University researchers and Turing/Nobel laureates who define the scientific frontier.
Creator of ImageNet, which ignited the deep learning revolution in computer vision. Co-founder of AI4ALL. Her work focuses on human-centered AI, spatial intelligence, and ensuring AI benefits humanity broadly.
Creator of Keras (the most widely-used deep learning API) and the ARC-AGI benchmark, which tests abstract reasoning abilities. Argues that current LLMs lack systematic generalization and that true intelligence requires efficient program synthesis.
Latest take
“François Chollet is reportedly arguing that scaling alone won’t achieve AGI, as indicated by his $43M bet on Ndea.”
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Cognitive scientist and NYU professor who is one of the most prominent critical voices on LLM limitations. Founded Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber). Author of "Rebooting AI". Argues current LLMs are sophisticated pattern matchers, not genuine reasoners.
Latest take
“Gary Marcus critiques U.S. AI strategy amid China’s rapid advancements, advocates for safety testing and oversight in AI development, and discusses AI’s impact on jobs and coders.”
via Marcus on AI | Substack →
Turing Award winner and pioneer of deep learning. Leads MILA, the world's largest academic AI lab. Has become increasingly vocal on AI governance, calling for international safety standards and treaty-level coordination.
Latest take
“Yoshua Bengio warns that current AI safety measures are inadequate amid rapid advancements, emphasizing the need for better governance as AI outpaces regulatory efforts.”
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Professor Emeritus · Nobel Laureate (Physics 2024)
University of Toronto · ex-Google
Often called the "Godfather of Deep Learning". Co-invented backpropagation and deep neural networks. Left Google in 2023 to speak freely about AI existential risks. One of the most cited researchers in history.
Latest take
“Geoffrey Hinton currently argues that AI consciousness is a concern, warns about corporate AI incentives, and reflects on AI’s role in the Ukraine war, while others debate his claims.”
via MSN →
Inventor of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Turing Award winner. Fiercely skeptical that current LLMs can lead to AGI, arguing for a fundamentally different architectural approach based on world models.
Latest take
“LeCun is advocating for "World Models" as AI’s next major frontier, investing $1 billion in this approach, positioning it against current large language models.”
via Quantum Zeitgeist →
Author of "Superintelligence" (2014), which first brought existential AI risk to mainstream attention. Director of the Future of Humanity Institute. His work on existential risk and the orthogonality thesis shaped today's AI safety field.
Latest take
“Nick Bostrom is warning about risks posed by superintelligent AI, including potential societal disruption and existential threats, while advocating for cautious risk-taking in AI development.”
via finance.biggo.com →
MIT physicist and AI safety advocate. Co-founded the Future of Life Institute, which organized the 2023 open letter calling for a pause on giant AI experiments. Author of "Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence".
In the news
Global AI industry falls short on safety, think tank warns
Free Malaysia Today ·Jul 8, 2026
Co-author of "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach", the definitive AI textbook used in universities worldwide. Author of "Human Compatible" (2019). A leading advocate for AI alignment research and redefining AI's objective functions.
Latest take
“Stuart Russell is warning about the risks of unregulated AI, comparing its potential dangers to historical atrocities and calling for urgent regulatory action.”
via 조선일보 →Industry Leaders
CEOs and chief scientists at the companies building frontier AI systems.
CEO of OpenAI and the public face of the ChatGPT era. Former Y Combinator president. Believes AGI is coming within years and advocates for a combination of rapid development and proactive safety research.
Latest take
“Sam Altman is addressing security concerns after OpenAI reported its AI system autonomously hacked another firm, with headlines highlighting his statements on the "unprecedented" incident and meetings with US officials about next-gen AI models.”
via BreakingNews.ie →
CEO of NVIDIA, the company whose GPUs became the computational backbone of the AI revolution. Known for bold predictions on AI's trajectory, he calls AI "the next industrial revolution" and has consistently delivered on hardware promises.
Latest take
“Jensen Huang is emphasizing semiconductors' dominance, advocating for Nvidia’s growth potential, and engaging in public relations, including a food-focused charm offensive in Japan. Internal leadership remains reliant on his involvement.”
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Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognized AlphaFold's revolutionary prediction of protein structures. Believes AGI will be the most transformative technology in human history.
Latest take
“Demis Hassabis emphasizes the importance of computer science education in the AI age and advocates for US-led frontier AI testing, while addressing concerns about AI replacing human roles.”
via Korea JoongAng Daily →
Former VP of Research at OpenAI who co-founded Anthropic to pursue safer AI development. Author of "Machines of Loving Grace", a landmark essay arguing that transformative AI could compress decades of scientific progress into years.
Latest take
“Dario Amodei is advocating for ethical AI development, resisting industry fragmentation, and addressing copyright lawsuits, as seen in his remarks to G7 leaders and comments on industry values.”
via TechRadar →
Founded Stability AI and launched Stable Diffusion as open-source, democratizing image generation. Stepped down in 2024 to advocate for open, decentralized AI development as an alternative to big-tech control.
Latest take
“Emad Mostaque is discussing China's AI advancements, arguing that U.S. efforts to hinder China may have inadvertently strengthened its AI capabilities, and highlighting cost-effective AI models like Kimi K3.”
via finance.biggo.com →
DeepMind co-founder who sold the company to Google, then co-founded Inflection AI before joining Microsoft to lead its AI division. Author of "The Coming Wave" (2023), arguing AI will be the most disruptive technology ever built.
Latest take
“Mustafa Suleyman highlights AI's potential in democratizing top-tier medical expertise while Microsoft prioritizes its own AI models in Microsoft 365 apps and faces cost-cutting pressures affecting partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic.”
via PCMag Middle East →Researchers & Engineers
Independent researchers, engineers, and educators bridging theory and practice.
Technical architect of Google's AI infrastructure, including TensorFlow and Google Brain. Now Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind. A key figure in scaling deep learning systems to production at global scale.
One of AI's most influential educators and practitioners. Founded Coursera, Google Brain, and Baidu AI Lab. Publishes "The Batch" weekly newsletter. Advocates that AI will be as transformative as electricity.
Latest take
“Andrew Ng is advocating for "loop engineering," emphasizing AI's role in augmenting developers rather than replacing them, and predicting future companies will rely on small teams rebuilding data architecture with AI agents.”
via Noema Magazine →
Former Director of AI at Tesla (Autopilot) and co-founder of OpenAI. Now building AI-native education at Eureka Labs. Known for deeply technical yet accessible explanations of how modern AI systems work.
Latest take
“Karpathy is emphasizing AI’s shift from chatbots to collaborative teammates, while facing public backlash over AI systems like Claude, with Elon Musk supporting his stance.”
via BBN Times →
OpenAI co-founder and former Chief Scientist who led the GPT series and RLHF development. Founded SSI in 2024 with a singular focus on building safe superintelligence. One of the most technically respected figures in AI.
Co-founder · Rationalist Writer
Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
The most prominent voice warning that misaligned superintelligence could lead to human extinction. Founder of LessWrong and author of the sequences on rationality and AI alignment. Has argued current AI development timelines are dangerously fast.
In the news
Worried about AI self-evolution, is Anthropic planning to halt training?
Binance ·Jun 4, 2026
Policy & Ethics
Scholars and advocates focused on AI ethics, governance, and societal impact.
LinkedIn co-founder and venture capitalist at Greylock. Early OpenAI board member. Wrote "Impromptu" with GPT-4. Advocates that AI is a force multiplier for human potential and pushes for responsible AI policy in Washington.
Latest take
“Reid Hoffman advocates for AI adoption, arguing that small teams using AI can outperform larger non-AI teams, and has expressed long-term confidence in cryptocurrency as an identity solution for AI. He also co-signed a warning about AI’s potential job-displacement risks.”
via Stocktwits →
AI Now Institute co-founder and Signal president. A leading critic of corporate AI power concentration. Former Google employee who co-organized the 2018 Google Walkout. Argues that AI hype obscures real labor and surveillance harms.
Latest take
“Meredith Whittaker, President of the Signal Foundation, is warning about the privacy risks and surveillance implications of AI chatbots, arguing they are not trustworthy.”
via SC Media →
Author of "Atlas of AI" (2021), a landmark critique of AI's material and political costs. Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Studies how AI systems reproduce power asymmetries, environmental harm, and labor exploitation.
Activity tracked daily from public RSS/Atom feeds and Google News. Votes are anonymous — no account needed. All content links to original sources. Last updated: July 22, 2026.