John Schulman
@johnschulman2
RESEARCHERRecently started @thinkymachines. Interested in reinforcement learning, alignment, birds, jazz music
Thomas G. Dietterich
@tdietterich
RESEARCHERDistinguished Professor (Emeritus), Oregon State Univ.; Former President, Assoc. for the Adv. of Artificial Intelligence; Robust AI & Comput. Sustainability
Dwarkesh Patel
@dwarkesh_sp
CREATORHost of @dwarkeshpodcast https://www.youtube.com/DwarkeshPatel https://open.spotify.com/show/4JH4tybY1zX6e5hjCwU6gF https://apple.co/3ujLQkZ
Zoubin Ghahramani
@ZoubinGhahrama1
RESEARCHERVP Research, Google DeepMind, ex-head of Google Brain. Professor at University of Cambridge. Machine Learning Researcher. ex-Chief Scientist & VP of AI, Uber.
Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
@jaschasd
RESEARCHERMember of the technical staff @ Anthropic. Most (in)famous for inventing diffusion models. AI + physics + neuroscience + dynamics.
Amanda Askell
@AmandaAskell
RESEARCHERPhilosopher & ethicist trying to make AI be good @AnthropicAI. Personal account. All opinions come from my training data.
Reid Hoffman
@reidhoffman
FOUNDERCo-Founder, LinkedIn. Investor. MSFT Board Member. Building an LLM to discover cures for cancer: @manas_co. Most importantly: Proud American.
Ryan Adams
@ryan_p_adams
RESEARCHERMachine Learning Researcher, CS Professor (@PrincetonCS), Dad, Woodworker
David Sacks
@DavidSacks
INVESTORTech founder & investor. Personal views only. Official account: @davidsacks47
Ethan Mollick
@emollick
RESEARCHERProfessor @Wharton studying AI, innovation & startups. Democratizing education using tech Book: https://a.co/d/4VguzZz Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Sholto Douglas
@_sholtodouglas
RESEARCHERScaling RL @AnthropicAI, ex @DeepMind - working towards intelligence too cheap to meter
tylercowen
@tylercowen
CREATORnew book *Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Winners, and Creatives Around the World*, http://marginalrevolution.com, Conversations with Tyler, The Free Press.
Boaz Barak
@boazbaraktcs
RESEARCHERComputer Scientist. See also http://windowsontheory.org . @harvard @openai opinions my own.
Fernando Pereira
@earnmyturns
RESEARCHERGoogle VP & Engineering Fellow; former Penn professor; ML/NLP researcher; fanatic skier; he/him. Also @earnmyturns at http://post.news
Joe Carlsmith
@jkcarlsmith
RESEARCHERPhilosophy, futurism, AI. Working on Claude's values @AnthropicAI. Formerly @coeff_giving. Opinions my own.
vitalik.eth
@VitalikButerin
FOUNDERI choose balance. First-level balance. mi pinxe lo crino tcati https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/12/in-the-balance/
Horace He
@cHHillee
ENGINEER@thinkymachines Formerly @PyTorch "My learning style is Horace twitter threads" - @typedfemale
augustus odena
@gstsdn
RESEARCHERSomething new. Previously: AI research at TBD Labs / Meta; cofounder at @AdeptAILabs; Invented Scratchpad / Chain-of-Thought; Google Brain
Buck Shlegeris
@bshlgrs
RESEARCHERCEO@Redwood Research (@redwood_ai), working on technical research to reduce catastrophic risk from AI misalignment. bshlegeris@gmail.com
Robin Hanson
@robinhanson
RESEARCHERLet’s skip witty banter & talk deep Qs. Books: http://ageofem.com http://elephantinthebrain.com Chief Scientist @_futarchy Advisor @MetaDAOProject @butterygg
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
@Noahpinion
CREATORWrites about economics, posts about rabbits. For serious opinions/analysis, read my blog: http://noahpinion.blog
Helen Toner
@hlntnr
POLICYAI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @CSETGeorgetown (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: http://helentoner.substack.com
Ajeya Cotra
@ajeya_cotra
RESEARCHERHelping the world prepare for extremely powerful AI. Risk assessment @METR_evals. Writing at Planned Obsolescence (about AI), Good Bones (about whatever).
Ezra Klein
@ezraklein
CREATORColumnist, @NYTOpinion Author, "Why We're Polarized" Host of "The Ezra Klein Show" podcast
Patrick McKenzie
@patio11
CREATORI work for the Internet and am an advisor to @stripe. These are my personal opinions unless otherwise noted.
Kevin Roose
@kevinroose
CREATORNYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, high-perplexity language model. Writing a book about AGI.
Tom Goldstein
@tomgoldsteincs
RESEARCHERProfessor at UMD. AI security & privacy, algorithmic bias, foundations of ML. Follow me for commentary on state-of-the-art AI.
Theo Weber
@theophaneweber
RESEARCHERResearch scientist @ DeepMind; currently working on thinking/reasoning in Gemini.
Kyle Cranmer
@KyleCranmer
RESEARCHERDirector Data Science Institute @UWMadison @datascience_uw. EiC @MLSTjournal. Physics, stats/ML/AI, open science. same handle @sigmoid.social and bsky
Jon Barron
@jon_barron
RESEARCHERPrincipal research scientist at Google DeepMind. Synthesized views are my own.
@levelsio
@levelsio
FOUNDER📸http://PhotoAI.com $100K/m 🛰http://RemoteOK.com $43K/m 🎮http://Vibej.am $36K/m 🏡http://InteriorAI.com $34K/m 💾http://Pieter.com $25K/m 🌍http://Nomads.com $11K/m 👙http://levelsio.com + @X $7K/m
Max Schwarzer
@max_a_schwarzer
RESEARCHERDoing RL @AnthropicAI. Formerly VP of Research, Head of Post-Training @OpenAI. PhD with Aaron Courville and Marc Bellmare at Mila.
Katja Grace 🔍
@KatjaGrace
RESEARCHERThinking about whether AI will destroy the world at http://aiimpacts.org. DM or email for media requests. Feedback: http://admonymous.co/googolplex
Kate Crawford
@katecrawford
RESEARCHERProfessor, researcher, maker of things Book: ATLAS OF AI Latest: CALCULATING EMPIRES https://calculatingempires.net | MSR-NYC | @USC | Knowing Machines
Chris Dyer
@redpony
RESEARCHERi live in Angel, London. I am a researcher at DeepMind. I play the cello. 𒌓𒈪𒊭𒄠𒋗 𒆪𒌦𒄭𒁺 𒌓 𒌨𒊑𒅇𒈬𒅆𒋢𒌨𒅇𒈨𒇷𒅍
Zvi Mowshowitz
@TheZvi
CREATORBlogger primarily on AI and AI x-risk but also other things at Don't Worry About the Vase (SS/WP/LW), founding Balsa Research to fix policy.
Dhruv Batra
@DhruvBatra_
RESEARCHERCo-founder & Chief Scientist @yutori_ai. Prev: Senior Director leading FAIR Embodied AI @MetaAI and Professor @GeorgiaTech.
William MacAskill
@willmacaskill
RESEARCHERConsider donating 10% to effective charities: http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/pledge Or a career for impact: http://80000hours.org My research: http://forethought.org
Max Roser
@MaxCRoser
RESEARCHERData to understand global problems and research to make progress against them. Founder of @OurWorldInData / Professor at @UniofOxford's @BlavatnikSchool
Ari Morcos
@arimorcos
RESEARCHERCEO and Co-founder @datologyai working to make it easy for anyone to make the most of their data. Former: RS @AIatMeta (FAIR), RS @DeepMind, PhD @PiN_Harvard.
Tim O'Reilly
@timoreilly
FOUNDERFounder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold. Didn't pay for a blue check, cannot make it go away
Patrick Hsu
@pdhsu
RESEARCHER@ArcInstitute co-founder, @BerkeleyBioE professor, @ThriveCapital investor | biology and ML research | 🇨🇦 prev @harvard @broadinstitute, Fast Grants
Rob Wiblin
@robertwiblin
CREATORHost of the 80,000 Hours Podcast. Exploring the inviolate sphere of ideas one interview at a time: http://80000hours.org/podcast/
Liv Boeree
@Liv_Boeree
CREATORThat poker girl. Host of the Win-Win podcast. Slaying Moloch & chasing horizons 🚀♣️🌳🦾 Watch my latest thing here 👇
Jason Crawford
@jasoncrawford
CREATORI write and speak about the history & philosophy of progress. Founder, @rootsofprogress. Host of the Progress Conference. Author, The Techno-Humanist Manifesto.
Alex Tamkin
@AlexTamkin
RESEARCHERmachine learning, science & society @AnthropicAI | recently: Clio, Anthropic Economic Index, Claude Artifacts | prev: phd @StanfordAILab, @stanfordnlp
Blake Richards
@tyrell_turing
RESEARCHERResearcher at @mcgillu combining AI and neuroscience. Also on Bluesky (@tyrellturing.bsky.social) and Mastodon: @tyrell_turing@fediscience.org.
heiner
@HeinrichKuttler
ENGINEERex @xAI, @InflectionAI, @AIatMeta, @DeepMind, @Google, @LMU_Muenchen, PhD math-ph. Opinions my own. (Can be yours for a small fee.)
Yo Shavit
@yonashav
POLICYpolicy for v smart things @openai. Past: CS PhD @HarvardSEAS/@SchmidtFutures/@MIT_CSAIL. Tweets my own; on my head be it.
Allan Dafoe
@AllanDafoe
POLICYAGI governance: navigating the transition to beneficial AGI (Google DeepMind)
Angela Jiang
@jiangelaa
POLICYAI-maxxing @worktrace_ai 🩷 | Prev. Public Policy & Product @OpenAI, CS PhD @CarnegieMellon
Rosie Campbell
@RosieCampbell
POLICYForever expanding my nerd/bimbo Pareto frontier. AI welfare 🤝 AI safety. Managing Director @eleosai, Ex-OpenAI, 2024 @rootsofprogress fellow
Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name)
@daniel_271828
RESEARCHERResearching effects of automated AI R&D | pro-America, pro-tech, & pro-AI safety
Alex Tabarrok
@ATabarrok
CREATORProf of economics at George Mason, co-founder of the online education platform http://MRU.org. Advisor to firms, incl MultiversX, TEAL, Bluechip, 0L Network +
Ross Wightman
@wightmanr
ENGINEERAI / Computer Vision. Ex head of Software, Firmware Engineering at a Canadian 🦄. Building AI systems or investing in startups that do it better.
Cate Hall
@catehall
CREATORpreorder You Can Just Do Things, a guide to personal agency, now: https://shorturl.at/kOCpz anon feedback: http://shorturl.at/vxF24 | http://catehall.com
Tamara Winter
@tamarawinter
EXECUTIVEPublisher @stripepress | Board @ifp + @joinFAI | Creator of TACIT, a mini-documentary series following master craftspeople at work
Boz
@boztank
EXECUTIVECTO @Meta. Leading Reality Labs and working on AR, VR, AI, and more. Built v1 of FB News Feed, Messenger, Groups, Mobile Ads. TweetDelete 6mo
Alison Gopnik
@AlisonGopnik
RESEARCHERCognitive scientist, psychologist, philosopher, author of Scientist in the Crib, Philosophical Baby, The Gardener & The Carpenter, grandmother of six
Steven Adler
@sjgadler
RESEARCHERAI safety researcher (ex-OpenAI: danger evals, AGI readiness, etc), writing at https://clear-eyed.ai
Andy Zeng
@andyzengineer
ENGINEERBuilding robot foundation models @GeneralistAI. Prev @GoogleDeepMind, PhD @Princeton. One experiment away from magic. ✗DMs → email
Neal Khosla
@nealkhosla
FOUNDERI judge myself on what my 8 and 80 year old selves would think. CEO of @CuraiHQ - making healthcare available and affordable to everyone
Mark Cuban
@mcuban
INVESTORDunking on the pharma industry with @costplusdrugs.com, the lowest prices on meds anywhere. check it out !
Thore Graepel
@ThoreG
RESEARCHERPost-AGI research @Deepmind. Prev: AI & ML @Altos_Labs. @DeepMind & @MSFTResearch. #AlphaGo & #TrueSkill, family, music, meditation, Patterns of Thought
Sam Shleifer
@sam_shleifer
RESEARCHERFounding Team Thinking Machines. Previously @c.ai. I like zsh aliases, audiobooks, and running. This does not reflect the opinions of my future self.
Philip E. Tetlock
@PTetlock
RESEARCHERPenn-Integrates-Knowledge (PIK) Professor, Wharton & School of Arts & Sciences. Likes = interesting; Retweets = very interesting; Interesting ≠ endorsement
Daniela Amodei
@DanielaAmodei
FOUNDERPresident @AnthropicAI. Formerly @OpenAI, @Stripe, congressional staffer, global development
Marius Hobbhahn
@MariusHobbhahn
FOUNDERCEO at Apollo Research @apolloaievals prev. ML PhD with Philipp Hennig & AI forecasting @EpochAIResearch
Eli Lifland
@eli_lifland
RESEARCHERAI forecasting and governance @AI_Futures_. Co-author of AI 2027 and the AI Futures Model. Also @aidigest_, @SamotsvetyF. Prev @oughtinc
jasmine sun
@jasminewsun
CREATORanthropologist of disruption ✰ contributor @theatlantic ✰ newsletter http://jasmi.news
Trung Phan
@TrungTPhan
CREATORWrite on business with @workweekinc. Building a privacy-first AI research app @bearlyai.
Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀
@peterwildeford
POLICYHead of Policy @AIPolicyNetwork. Ohioan. World champion forecaster. Former data scientist. Protecting liberty and prosperity in the age of superintelligence.
Jon Gauthier
@j_gauthier
RESEARCHERCognitive neuroscientist. Postdoc at UCSF. Formerly @mitbrainandcog, @StanfordNLP, @OpenAI, @GoogleBrain. NLP, linguistics, ML, neuroscience, biking!
Walter Isaacson
@WalterIsaacson
CREATORThe Greatest Sentence Ever Written: https://a.co/d/apuMHYU Also, bios of Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo, Franklin, Einstein, Jobs. Professor @Tulane
Brydon Eastman
@brhydon
RESEARCHER🇨🇦 Mathematician (heavy on the ish) @thinkymachines Prev. MTS @OpenAI; PhD @WaterlooMath Certified wife guy, featured twice in Lego Magazine © ☕//🤔➡️💻
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
CREATORSilver Bulletin, not the only thing I'm doing but the main thing and the best thing! https://natesilver.substack.com/
derek guy
@dieworkwear
CREATORMenswear writer. Editor at @putthison. Bylines at The New York Times, The Financial Times, Politico, Esquire, and Mr. Porter
Douglas Murray
@DouglasKMurray
CREATOR#1 bestselling author of 8 books including 'On Democracies and Death Cults'. @Spectator. Columnist @NYPost. Senior Fellow @ManhattanInst
Fareed Zakaria
@FareedZakaria
CREATORWaPo columnist. Host of CNN's GPS, Sundays @ 10am & 1pm ET in the US. Order my latest book, Age of Revolutions, via the link below
Garry Kasparov
@Kasparov63
POLICYFounder of @Renew_Democracy. Co-founder @WLCongress. Activist, speaker, 13th World Chess Champion. Autocracy in America podcast: https://shorturl.at/ZkO4I
Steven Johnson
@stevenbjohnson
CREATOREditorial Director, NotebookLM and Google Labs. Author of 14 books. Latest: The Infernal Machine. Speech inquiries email: wesn at leighbureau dot com
Konstantin Kisin
@KonstantinKisin
CREATORPolitically Non-Binary Satirist Podcast: @triggerpod Speaking: rafe.fletcher@cwgspeakers.com Media: info@triggerpod.co.uk Book: http://amzn.to/3Bf7OWU
Jonathan Haidt
@JonHaidt
RESEARCHERSocial psychologist at NYU-Stern, working to roll back the phone-based childhood. Please visit https://www.anxiousgeneration.com & https://www.afterbabel.com
Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna
POLITICIANTeam America. New Economic Patriotism: Good Jobs, Low Costs, No Dumb Wars. Marshall Plan for America. M4A. $10 day childcare. Tax ultra wealth. (650) 999-9610
Coleman Hughes
@coldxman
CREATORConversations w/Coleman Podcast | Forbes 30 Under 30 | @theFP https://colemanhughes.substack.com/ | Speaking Inquiries: jamie@centralparkspeakers.com
Trevor Bedford
@trvrb
RESEARCHERScientist @fredhutch, studying viruses, evolution and immunity. Collection of #COVID19 threads here: https://bedford.io/misc/twitter/
Niall Ferguson
@nfergus
CREATORInternational man of history, Flying Scotsman. Author, @HooverInst senior fellow, @TheFP and @thetimes columnist. Opinions my own.
Lawrence H. Summers
@LHSummers
POLITICIANCharles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard. Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton and Director of NEC for President Obama
Atul Gawande
@Atul_Gawande
CREATORSurgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID. Threads: atul.gawande. Bsky: @agawande.
Justin Kan
@justinkan
FOUNDERFrom the bottom to the top & back again. Co-founded @twitch, now working on making videos, http://goat.vc https://stash.gg/ @rye
Crémieux
@cremieuxrecueil
CREATORI write about genetics, 'metrics, and demographics. Read my long-form writing at http://www.cremieux.xyz.
Joe Lonsdale
@JTLonsdale
FOUNDERI'm an entrepreneur, investor, & philanthropist. I founded @PalantirTech @Addepar @UAustinOrg @8VC & other mission-driven orgs. Bold policy @InstituteCicero
Aella
@Aella_Girl
CREATORwhorelord, survey artist, sample size queen, way too earnest. http://knowingless.com
Ross Douthat
@DouthatNYT
CREATORNYT columnist, author of Believe, https://www.zondervan.com/p/believe, host of Interesting Times, https://www.youtube.com/@InterestingTimesNYT
Richard Hanania
@RichardHanania
CREATORI write a newsletter you should subscribe to. http://www.richardhanania.com. Monthly columns @unherd @BostonGlobe
Matt Ridley
@mattwridley
CREATORBiologist, columnist | Author of Red Queen, Genome, Rational Optimist, the Evolution of Everything, How Innovation Works, Viral and Birds, Sex and Beauty.
Kevin Kelly
@kevin2kelly
CREATORSenior Maverick at Wired, author of bestseller book, The Inevitable. Also Cool Tool maven, Recomendo chief, and radical optimist.
nxthompson
@nxthompson
EXECUTIVECEO @theatlantic. Going out of business soon, since 1857. Author of “The Running Ground" and host of "The Most Interesting Thing in AI."
Senator Scott Wiener
@Scott_Wiener
POLITICIAN6’7” CA State Senator 🏳️🌈 ✡️ Policy nerd & chronic legislative overachiever 🤓 Running for Congress to protect our democracy 💙 Vote June 2, 2026 🗳️
Julia Galef
@juliagalef
CREATORAuthor of THE SCOUT MINDSET and host of the Rationally Speaking podcast
Megan McArdle
@asymmetricinfo
CREATORColumnist at the Washington Post. Opinions my own. Email me: Megan.McArdle -at- http://washpost.com Buy my book, The Up Side of Down http://amzn.to/1a3i2tK
Dan Shipper 📧
@danshipper
CREATORceo @every | the only subscription you need to stay at the edge of AI
Jared Palmer
@jaredpalmer
ENGINEERVP CoreAI @Microsoft Previously, VP of AI @Vercel. Creator of @v0 and @aisdk. Founder of @Turborepo (acquired by Vercel)
Paul Bloom
@paulbloomatyale
RESEARCHERPsychologist who studies and writes about human nature—including morality, pleasure, and religion (Artwork by MK Wynn: http://mkwynn.com)
Neal Stephenson
@nealstephenson
CREATORAuthor of Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, Baroque Cycle, et al. Coming October 2024: Polostan.
Paul Romer
@paulmromer
RESEARCHERI no longer post to this account. There is at least one person who is pretending to be me with a handle that adds an "s" to the end of my handle.
Byrne Hobart
@ByrneHobart
CREATORThe John Henry of excessive use of the em-dash. Tweets are map, not territory. Co-author: Boom (Stripe Press): https://a.co/d/f7m2OG8 https://anomalyfund.vc/
Flo Crivello
@Altimor
FOUNDERFounder @getlindy. "Striving to remember the obvious over grasping the esoteric."
Stefan Schubert
@StefanFSchubert
RESEARCHERI run The Update newsletter. Book: http://academic.oup.com/book/56384
Anthony Goldbloom
@antgoldbloom
FOUNDERWorking on something new; investment partner at @aixventureshq; previously CEO of @kaggle
Charlie Marsh
@charliermarsh
FOUNDERBuilding @astral_sh: Ruff, uv, and other high-performance Python tools. Prev: Staff engineer @SpringDiscovery, @KhanAcademy, BSE @PrincetonCS.
Saloni
@salonium
CREATORCo-founder & editor @WorksInProgMag. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, @coeff_giving. // Prev @OurWorldInData. 🏳️🌈
Dr Anton Howes
@antonhowes
CREATORInvention historian. I write *Age of Invention*, an email newsletter on the history of invention and economic history.
Alex Bores
@AlexBores
POLITICIANNY Assemblymember, computer engineer, dad, husband. Running for Congress in NY-12 to rebuild democracy and deliver results. Big AI's #1 target.
David Manheim
@davidmanheim
RESEARCHERLecturer @TechnionLive, founder @alter_org_il, emeritus @superforecaster, PhD @PardeeRAND Optimistic on AI, pessimistic on humanity managing the risks well.
Ben Newhouse
@newhouseb
ENGINEERmember of technical staff @openai, cofounder @aidkit_tech, former head of sync @dropbox, cofounded bubbli (acquired by dropbox), previously made yelp monocle.
Heidi L. Williams
@heidilwilliams_
RESEARCHERprofessor @dartmouth + science policy @ifp // leveraging research to promote science and progress
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
@S_OhEigeartaigh
RESEARCHERDirector of http://ai-far.org at Uni of Cambridge | Researching Big Risks, and impacts of AI & emerging tech. Opinions own
Michael Lai
@Mtclai
POLITICIANAI for state + local government @AnthropicAI | SF elected | community builder
Aliisa
@aliisarosenthal
EXECUTIVEformer head of sales @openai, current investor @acrewcapital. fine-tuning two small models with @hodgessam.
Shantanu Jain
@hauntsaninja
ENGINEER@OpenAI. CPython core dev, making Python typing better https://hauntsaninja.github.io awesome in every mausam.
