Thought Leaders
AI Content Specialist & Professor | Exploring how to leverage structured content with rhetorical strategies to improve the performance of generative AI technologies both in the workplace and the classroom.
A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. I study entrepreneurship & innovation and AI. I am trying to understand what our new AI-haunted era means for work and education.
My current work focuses on how students and citizens can use AI for “co-reasoning”, learning to tap into the power of LLMs to both model and critique arguments.
As creator of the SIFT methodology, I have taught thousands of teachers and students how to verify claims and sources.
An acclaimed American author and media theorist, known for The Ghost Map and other books exploring science, history, and innovation. He is also a co-creator of Google’s AI research tool NotebookLM, integrating AI to enhance personalized research, organization, and creative collaboration.
I was a research scientist and a founding member at OpenAI.
I was the Sr. Director of AI at Tesla, where I led the computer vision team of Tesla Autopilot.
Back to OpenAI. Built a small team, improved GPT-4 on ChatGPT.
I started Eureka Labs, a new AI+Education company.
Meanwhile, I also make educational videos on AI on my YouTube channel.
Assistant Director of Academic Innovation, Director of the Mississippi AI Institute, Lecturer of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi. I train faculty in Ai literacy.
I’m a full-time college professor and researcher, working at the intersection between artificial intelligence and formal systems. In this substack, I write about the many things that interest me, from technical topics in algorithms, CS theory, and AI to more historical or philosophical pieces. I also write opinionated essays on science and education, including occasional rants.
I’m a reporter who has written about technology, economics, and public policy for more than a decade. Before I launched Understanding AI, I wrote for the Washington Post, Vox.com, and Ars Technica. I have a master’s degree in computer science from Princeton.
A tech executive, AI thought leader, and veteran product manager experienced in areas ranging from startups to enterprise-scale platforms like Amazon.
Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Award-winning author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. She works in the fields of AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Simon Willison
British programmer and Django co-creator, built tools for The Guardian, co-founded Lanyrd (acquired by Eventbrite), and now develops Datasette for data publishing. A Python Software Foundation board member, he’s been blogging on tech since 2002 and is a prominent open-source and Python community contributor.
Assistant Professor at UC San Diego