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
“Hinton warns that AI poses a 10–20% risk of humanity becoming “toast” and urges people to be”
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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, founder of World Labs, is the subject of AMD’s $8.2 billion acquisition of the AI startup.”
via Startup Fortune →
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 partnering with G42 to explore AI applications in the physical and industrial world, while also challenging Anthropic over AI safety warnings.”
via ITP.net →
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, together with other top AI scientists, is urging the creation of global safeguards for artificial intelligence, advocating for a worldwide watchdog and the air‑gapping of frontier models to mitigate security risks.”
via Observer →
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 speaking on AI safety and the need to build trustworthy AI, while noting the difficulty of measuring financial impacts”
via Bloomberg.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.
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".
Latest take
“Max Tegmark is urging Newsmax to focus on building AI tools rather than pursuing a “digital god,””
via Yahoo →
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 argues that OpenAI has delayed AGI progress by five to ten years, criticizing the industry’s overindulgence in large language models.”
via TechRadar →
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 addressing the future of AI, arguing that while its risks are significant, its benefits could justify them; he also discusses the likelihood of AI consciousness, the costs of pausing development, and explains the term “super intelligence.””
via The New York Times →Industry Leaders
CEOs and chief scientists at the companies building frontier AI systems.
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 speaking at GTC Berlin, urging countries to build their own AI, engaging with European governments, and expanding Nvidia’s investment in European AI startups.”
via NVIDIA Blog →
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.
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 urges employees that dangerous AI can be mitigated but requires collective action, proposes an IAEA‑style global oversight body, and outlines three governance paths for advanced AI”
via The Times of India →
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, CEO of Anthropic, is announcing the company’s commitment to allocate 5 % of its shares to a new public‑benefit fund, while also calling for stronger regulation of artificial intelligence.”
via Broadband Breakfast →
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 promoting open‑stack India initiatives while asserting that human ideas now add negative value amid accelerating AI model releases.”
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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.
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.
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 portrayed as a leading AI figure in the film *Artificial* and has stated that AI will continue improving until it can perform all tasks humans can do.”
via BBC →
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
“He is being highlighted as a pioneer of AI safety, warning of superintelligence risks”
via VCU News →
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 dismisses fears of AI-driven human extinction as overblown and a lobbying tactic, accusing tech firms of using fabricated safety arguments to stifle competition, while promoting free AI courses from DeepLearning.AI and Hugging Face.”
via Pasquale Pillitteri →
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 claims that only about 5,000 people have truly witnessed AI’s capabilities, while roughly 75 % of the global population has barely used AI, arguing that this disparity is widening.”
via The Times of India →Policy & Ethics
Scholars and advocates focused on AI ethics, governance, and societal impact.
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 is critiquing social media’s systemic flaws, arguing that AI can be controlled yet its careless use poses real threats, and she discusses AI’s impact on art and operating systems.”
via Inc.com →
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 argues that AI and the data‑center boom are the sole reason the U.S. is avoiding recession, defending large AI infrastructure spending and urging Americans to stop hating datacenters.”
via Diario AS →
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 argues that AI functions as the logic of capitalist domination and has recently become a Distinguished Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute.”
via New Politics →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: October 21, 2026.