Expert attention map

The Who's Who of AI

What credible people across AI noticed, why it matters, and where the field is converging or disagreeing.

2,364 searchable experts 2,966 tracked across all sources
Build my stream Create my edition
Filter the conversation Who is saying what?

Combine a professional role with a reaction lens. Both must match the same attributed contribution.

Clear all
Active evidence filter

Showing developments with attributable Policy & governance reactions.

New Network reaction maps

See how experts are reacting—not just what they shared.

Posts are grouped by conversation and tone. Select a lens to filter the stream; these are never permanent labels on people.

Policy & governance Building & implementation Concern & critique Research & technical analysis
2 live reaction maps in this view Jump to the evidence ↓
Multiple readings Our position on open-weights models Policy & governance · 3 attributable reactions Multiple readings Open source silicon valley china Concern & critique · 3 attributable reactions
Showing signals surfaced by Dare Obasanjo ×
New & accelerating

What is moving across the network now

One card per development. Sources are clustered; reaction bundles describe these posts, never the people behind them.

New Models & releases Analysis 17h ago
⚡ 1 h early
Anthropic open-weights position statement

Our position on open-weights models

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Sung Kim James MacGlashan Dare Obasanjo Larry Hunter Fran Litterio +2
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
Multiple readings

Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“Dario Amodei clarifies that Anthropic doesn’t want to ban open weight model. It instead wants 1. A ban on selling powerful chips or chipmaking equipment to China. 2. A crack down on industrial-scale distillation operations. 3. Mandatory safety testing of fr…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak deca…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Dario explains Anthropic’s position on open weights models It’s a lot of words to say that they’re still against powerful open weights models www.anthropic.com/news/positio...”

4 experts discussed this · 10 posts
Ted Underwood: I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company i…
Ted Underwood: (just, say, hypothetically?) There's also internal incoherence in making the first part of this all about moralized great-power competition and then saying that safety testing (incl for alignment r…
SE Gyges: he kisses jd vance's ass and fails to specify anything concerning his proposed evaluation regime that distinguishes it from a ban solid dario post 10/10
Open the full discussion →
Primary source anthropic.com ↗
Developing AI field signal Signal 2d ago

Open source silicon valley china

5 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Social Media Lab
“"Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/t...” evidence ↗
5 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Ben Recht kate conger Dare Obasanjo Social Media Lab Doll
Primary source nytimes.com ↗
Established Policy & governance Signal 3d ago

Amazon cracks down on use of AI images by sellers after New York law

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“An interesting consequence of New York passing a law requiring disclosing when an ad uses AI actors instead of real people.” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Dare Obasanjo

“An interesting consequence of New York passing a law requiring disclosing when an ad uses AI actors instead of real people.”

Primary source cnbc.com ↗
Established Models & releases Development 6d ago
Anthropic 1.5B book piracy settlement

Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Dare Obasanjo
“The largest copyright infringement payout ever was approved this week. Anthropic will pay $3,000 per work across ~500,000 works ($1.5 billion) to settle claims it illegally downloaded them to train Claude. Ironic given Anthropic’s recent complaints about ot…” evidence ↗
1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Dare Obasanjo

“The largest copyright infringement payout ever was approved this week. Anthropic will pay $3,000 per work across ~500,000 works ($1.5 billion) to settle claims it illegally downloaded them to train Claude. Ironic given Anthropic’s recent complaints about ot…”

Primary source apnews.com ↗