Expertise index

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352 matching experts 4,280 tracked across all sources

Showing 1–48 of 352. Trust means peer connections inside the directory; expertise labels come from public profile evidence.

Mark Riedl

Professor of AI at Georgia Tech, storytelling and safety

@markriedl.bsky.social

Why they matter Professor of AI at Georgia Tech, storytelling and safety with public evidence across AI research and AI business.

AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him

Latest measured signal People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again | TechCrunch techcrunch.com · 2d ago
877 peer trust 98 signals / 30d active 2h ago

Abeba Birhane

Assistant Professor of AI, founder of the AI Accountability Lab

@abeba.blacksky.app

Why they matter Assistant Professor of AI, founder of the AI Accountability Lab with public evidence across AI research and AI business.

Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical d…

Latest measured signal Palantir patient data tech rejected by many NHS trusts in England theguardian.com · 5d ago
722 peer trust 12 signals / 30d active 12h ago

Jeremy Howard

Founding CEO of Answer.AI and fast.ai

@howard.fm

Why they matter Founding CEO of Answer.AI and fast.ai with public evidence across AI business and AI research.

https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…

710 peer trust 0 signals / 30d active 262d ago

danah boyd

Technology and society researcher, founder of Data and Society

@zephoria.bsky.social

Why they matter Technology and society researcher, founder of Data and Society with public evidence across AI research and AI business.

STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Professor of Communication, Cornell https://made-n…

632 peer trust 0 signals / 30d active 1d ago

Michael Bronstein

DeepMind Professor of AI at the University of Oxford

@mmbronstein.bsky.social

Why they matter DeepMind Professor of AI at the University of Oxford with public evidence across AI research and AI business.

DeepMind Professor of AI @Oxford Scientific Director @Aithyra Chief Scientist @ProximaBio ML Lead @ProjectCETI geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, generati…

620 peer trust 4 signals / 30d active 6h ago

Gary Marcus

AI and cognitive science researcher and critic

@garymarcus.bsky.social

Why they matter AI and cognitive science researcher and critic with public evidence across AI business and AI research.

AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley. Newsletter…

Latest measured signal Brief remark on OpenAI’s giant math drop garymarcus.substack.com · 15d ago
565 peer trust 5 signals / 30d active 24d ago

Alex Hanna

Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute

@alexhanna.bsky.social

Why they matter Director of Research at the Distributed AI Research Institute with public evidence across AI business and Culture, work & education.

Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬Ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙ…

518 peer trust 19 signals / 30d active 14h ago

Vicki Boykis

Machine learning engineer, recommender systems and infra

@vickiboykis.com

Why they matter Machine learning engineer, recommender systems and infra with public evidence across AI research and AI business.

Founding list[float] engineer. Recsys. Personalization. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon). https://vickiboykis.com/what_ar…

492 peer trust 0 signals / 30d active 5d ago

Why they matter Researcher with public evidence across AI business and AI research.

Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Per…

Latest measured signal Lies for Clicks: How One Fake FB Post Reveals the AI Slop Machine Behind WNBA Content katestarbird.substack.com · 3d ago
490 peer trust 2 signals / 30d active 1h ago

Timnit Gebru

Founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app

Why they matter Founder of the Distributed AI Research Institute with public evidence across AI business.

Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technol…

Latest measured signal LIVE: The People's AI Assembly youtube.com · 2d ago
490 peer trust 26 signals / 30d active 17h ago

Why they matter Researcher with public evidence across Models & releases and AI business.

Researcher in ML/NLP at the University of Edinburgh (faculty at Informatics and EdinburghNLP), Co-Founder/CTO at www.miniml.ai, ELLIS (@ELLIS.eu) Scholar, Generative A…

475 peer trust 3 signals / 30d active 16d ago

Shannon Vallor

AI ethicist and philosopher, University of Edinburgh

@shannonvallor.bsky.social

Why they matter AI ethicist and philosopher, University of Edinburgh with public evidence across AI business.

Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2…

Latest measured signal Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military bbc.co.uk · 23h ago
472 peer trust 15 signals / 30d active 3h ago

Why they matter Researcher with public evidence across AI business and AI research.

Research & code: Research director @inria ►Data, Health, & Computer science ►Python coder, (co)founder of scikit-learn, joblib, & @probabl.bsky.social ►Sometimes does …

462 peer trust 4 signals / 30d active 1d ago

Justin Hendrix

CEO and editor of Tech Policy Press

@justinhendrix.bsky.social

Why they matter CEO and editor of Tech Policy Press with public evidence across AI business and AI research.

Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.

Latest measured signal reuters.com reuters.com · 2h ago
397 peer trust 65 signals / 30d active 1h ago

Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Director of the Center for Tech Responsibility at Brown

@geomblog.bsky.social

Why they matter Director of the Center for Tech Responsibility at Brown with public evidence across Policy & governance and AI business.

Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.

Latest measured signal Neural Networks Are Already Clean already-clean.goodfire.com · 5d ago
389 peer trust 20 signals / 30d active 5h ago

Why they matter Researcher with public evidence across AI research and AI business.

Assistant Prof of CS at the University of Waterloo, Faculty and Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute. Joining NYU Courant in September 2026. Co-EiC of TMLR. M…

Latest measured signal Adapting Our Processes to the Changing World of Scientific Publication blog.tmlr.org · 6d ago
383 peer trust 52 signals / 30d active 3d ago

Why they matter Directory member with public evidence across AI business.

Pre-order: ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (6/30 HarperCollins) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488 NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, Independent Media program H…

352 peer trust 0 signals / 30d active 16d ago

Why they matter Researcher with public evidence across AI business and AI research.

Postdoctoral fellow at ETH AI Center, working on Computational Social Science + NLP. Previously a PhD in CS at UMD, advised by Philip Resnik. Internships at MSR, AI2. …

339 peer trust 1 signals / 30d active 6d ago

Hilary Mason

Co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door, data science

@hilarymason.com

Why they matter Co-founder and CEO of Hidden Door, data science with public evidence across AI business.

Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many th…

328 peer trust 1 signals / 30d active 14d ago

Why they matter Directory member with public evidence across AI business and Culture, work & education.

British, But In Las Vegas and NYC ezitron.76 Sig Newsletter - wheresyoured.at https://linktr.ee/betteroffline - podcast w/ iheartradio Chosen by god, perfected by scie…

Latest measured signal Live ms.now · 1d ago
303 peer trust 34 signals / 30d active 21h ago

Luke Stark

Assistant professor of AI ethics, Western University

@lukestark.bsky.social

Why they matter Assistant professor of AI ethics, Western University with public evidence across AI business and AI research.

🏳️‍🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | Co-Director, @starlingcentre.bsky.social | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BL…

Latest measured signal The AI Novelty Cycle biblioracle.substack.com · 1d ago
299 peer trust 86 signals / 30d active 2h ago

Why they matter Researcher with public evidence across AI research and AI business.

Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . …

Latest measured signal My View on AI and University-Level English Literature eve.gd · 15d ago
296 peer trust 4 signals / 30d active 1h ago

Why they matter Researcher with public evidence across AI business and AI research.

Asst Prof at Johns Hopkins Cognitive Science • Director of the Group for Language and Intelligence (GLINT) ✨• Interested in all things language, cognition, and AI jenn…

295 peer trust 0 signals / 30d active 50d ago