The Faces of AI: Optimists vs Doomers
Meet researchers, founders and critics shaping debates about AI's promise, limits and risks. Their views span a spectrum rather than two fixed camps.
12 faces
Who's in this deck?12 names — peek before you play
Sam Altman
American entrepreneur and investor
Samuel Harris Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019.
Jensen Huang
Taiwanese and American businessman
Jensen Huang is a Taiwanese-American electrical engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Nvidia. The company's graphics processors became central to modern AI computing.
Dario Amodei
American AI entrepreneur
Dario Amodei is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language model series Claude. Prior to that, he was the vice president of research at OpenAI.
Demis Hassabis
British AI researcher
Sir Demis Hassabis is a British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. He is the chairman and co-founder of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist of Alphabet, as well as the chief executive officer and co-founder of Isomorphic Labs. Hassabis is also a UK Government AI Adviser.
Geoffrey Hinton
British-Canadian computer scientist
Geoffrey Everest Hinton is a British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist, cognitive psychologist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on artificial neural networks, which earned him the title "the Godfather of AI". He is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto.
Yann LeCun
French computer scientist
Yann LeCun is a French-American computer scientist and a pioneer of deep learning and convolutional neural networks. His research spans machine learning, computer vision and robotics.
Yoshua Bengio
Canadian computer scientist
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning.
Stuart J. Russell
British computer scientist and author
Stuart Jonathan Russell is a British computer scientist known for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI).
Gary Marcus
American cognitive scientist
Gary Fred Marcus is an American psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author, known for his research on the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Eliezer Yudkowsky
American AI researcher and writer
Eliezer Shlomo Yudkowsky is an American artificial intelligence researcher and writer on decision theory and ethics, known for popularizing ideas related to friendly artificial intelligence.
Fei-Fei Li
American computer scientist
Fei-Fei Li is a Chinese-born American computer scientist best known for establishing ImageNet, the dataset that enabled rapid advances in computer vision in the 2010s.
Meredith Whittaker
American artificial intelligence research scientist
Meredith Whittaker is the president of the Signal Foundation and serves on its board of directors. She was formerly the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and chief advisor and former faculty director & co founder of the AI Now Institute.