Expertise index

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348 matching experts 3,451 tracked across all sources

Showing 1–48 of 348. 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 GPT-6 Astra beat Portal, and it only cost $571.18 theverge.com · 2h ago
877 peer trust 23 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…

722 peer trust 15 signals / 30d active 10h 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 217d ago

Why they matter Researcher with public evidence across NLP & language and AI business.

Stanford Linguistics and Computer Science. Director, Stanford AI Lab. Founder of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social . #NLP https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/

Latest measured signal Pretraining Recurrent Networks without Recurrence arxiv.org · 14d ago
701 peer trust 1 signals / 30d active 450d 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…

Latest measured signal AITHYRA PhD Call 2026 phd.aithyra.at · 5d ago
620 peer trust 1 signals / 30d active 5d 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 A Definition of AGI agidefinition.ai · 4h ago
565 peer trust 10 signals / 30d active 6d 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…

Latest measured signal Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person mcsweeneys.net · 2d ago
518 peer trust 11 signals / 30d active 2h 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 1d 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 firstmonday.org firstmonday.org · 1h ago
490 peer trust 14 signals / 30d active 55m 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 Alpha School wants AI to teach a billion kids. Should it? scientificamerican.com · 8d ago
472 peer trust 6 signals / 30d active 11h 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 …

Latest measured signal ChatGPT can now pass the ‘I’m not a robot’ test the-independent.com · 11h ago
462 peer trust 5 signals / 30d active 11h 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 nytimes.com nytimes.com · 6h ago
397 peer trust 51 signals / 30d active 6h 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 Possible Futures Blog Series dair-institute.org · 4d ago
389 peer trust 5 signals / 30d active 4h ago

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

the internet's uncle • waging a victorious 2-front war against cars and christmas • big fan of being a big fan of things • go read https://anildash.com

Latest measured signal chronicle.com chronicle.com · 6d ago
334 peer trust 9 signals / 30d active 50m 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 0 signals / 30d active 13d ago

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

Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 40…

317 peer trust 12 signals / 30d active 3d 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 AI Bubble: ‘This is a fake industry’ | Ed Zitron youtu.be · 1d ago
303 peer trust 37 signals / 30d active 2h 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 Illusion of AGI, or What Language Models Can Do Without Thought techpolicy.press · 47m ago
299 peer trust 46 signals / 30d active 46m 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 5d ago