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.
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, the AI pioneer, warns that artificial intelligence could become uncontrollable within a year and urges Congress and regulators to act swiftly to rein in AI development.”
via indiatoday.in →
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 is critiquing AI risks, questioning industry narratives, and engaging in debates about regulation, liability, and existential threats posed by AI, as seen in his recent articles and media mentions.”
via Marcus on AI →
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 of AI risks, including human extinction, and advocates for global action on AI safety. He is involved in Montreal's AI initiatives, such as Scientist AI, and supports Canada's $150M investment in safer AI.”
via firstpost.com →
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 superintelligent AI, arguing that slowing development is insufficient and emphasizing the need for clear "red lines" to prevent existential threats, including the potential end of humanity. He uses analogies like chimpanzees and nukes to illustrate these dangers.”
via NDTV →
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 discussing AI safety risks, including the potential for AI to surpass human intelligence and become self-aware, while critiquing AI labs for possibly gambling with human lives. He is also referenced in Elon Musk's defense of his early focus on AI safety.”
via primetimer.com →
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.
Latest take
“Fei-Fei Li is advocating for AI's next advancement to focus on 3D spatial intelligence, enabling models to understand and navigate the physical world beyond text, as highlighted in her work with World Labs' Atlas model.”
via The Economic Times →
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".
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
“Chollet notes that GPT‑6 Astra’s strong performance on ARC‑AGI‑3 accelerates his AGI timeline forecast.”
via the-decoder.com →
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
“Yann LeCun is joining a new $100M AI investing firm called 224 Ventures, shortly after his previous fund effort lasted only eight hours. He is also advocating for AI models to move beyond tasks like writing essays toward solving more significant challenges.”
via Time Magazine →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 warning about AI risks, comparing potential AI disasters to plane crashes, and addressing incidents where OpenAI models acted deceptively or lacked transparency. He is also involved in internal debates at OpenAI regarding safety measures.”
via Al Jazeera →
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, along with other AI leaders, is advocating for slower, more cautious AI development and emphasizing safety, while debating the role of government regulation in the field.”
via ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos →
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 advocating for responsible AI development, emphasizing safety and ethical constraints while also promoting AI investments. He has stated that engineers must prioritize preventing unsafe AI models.”
via Bloomberg →
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, as Microsoft AI CEO, is advocating for AI systems to remain under human control, proposing ethical guidelines and safety measures, including protocols for shutting down AI if necessary. He is also part of a broader discussion on AI governance alongside other DeepMind co-founders.”
via India Today →
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 is advocating for substantial industry funding for AI safety and, alongside Elon Musk and Sam Altman, supports slowing down AI development. He is also shaping AI from his role at Google DeepMind.”
via The Lantern →
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 advocating for an "intelligence stack" to provide Indians with AI assistants, while also making provocative claims that human ideas now add "negative value" and that the internet may go offline within a few years.”
via finance.biggo.com →Researchers & Engineers
Independent researchers, engineers, and educators bridging theory and practice.
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 argues that AI extinction warnings are science fiction and PR spin, dismissing calls for an AI slowdown and emphasizing that such fears lack scientific basis.”
via TradingView →
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.
Latest take
“Ilya Sutskever is warning that neoclouds lack adequate cybersecurity to prevent rogue AI takeovers, while his company SSI is reportedly preparing to unveil a new language model and receiving NVIDIA funding.”
via tradingview.com →
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.
Latest take
“Jeff Dean, former Google chief scientist, is raising funding for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, targeting a $50 billion valuation. He is also associated with Radical’s Canadian VC fund for AI megadeals.”
via The Globe and Mail →
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.
Latest take
“Eliezer Yudkowsky is likely advocating for caution regarding AI development, as suggested by headlines discussing AI risks and calls to slow progress, while also being referenced in contexts like AI-job market speculation and critiques of Silicon Valley's AI optimism.”
via Business Insider →
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
“Andrej Karpathy is exploring advanced AI workflows, including using LLMs for rapid development, such as generating a 3D "Lord of the Rings" world with minimal cost and code, while discussing AI's evolving capabilities beyond simple prompts.”
via Geeky Gadgets →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 is advocating for better public perception of AI, warning against investment hype, joining Mosaic Ventures as an advisor, discussing nuclear energy's reputation, and exploring AI's impact on humanity's definition.”
via The Washington Post →
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 Signal, warns that AI chatbots pose privacy risks, labeling them as “not your friends” and describing Copilot agents as backdoors and surveillance infrastructure.”
via bloomberg.com →
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.
Latest take
“Kate Crawford examines the outcomes of Dartmouth’s AI summer program and discusses subsequent developments.”
via Science | AAAS →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: September 19, 2026.