In their own words

Fei-Fei Li

Co-director of Stanford HAI; founder of World Labs

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World

Li explains, in plain terms, what it would take for machines to understand physical space the way people do.

Geoffrey Hinton

Pioneer of deep learning; professor emeritus, University of Toronto

Full interview: "Godfather of AI" on hopes, fears and predictions for future of AI

The long version of the interview where he says out loud why he left Google and what worries him now.

Timnit Gebru

Founder, Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

"Deep Unlearning": Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias

Her own account of being forced out of Google, and why she says the bias sits in the training data.

Joy Buolamwini

Founder, Algorithmic Justice League

'If you have a face, you have a place in the conversation about AI,' expert says

How she found that face recognition failed on her own face, and what she built in response.

Yoshua Bengio

Turing Award laureate; chair of the International AI Safety Report

'It keeps me awake at night': machine-learning pioneer on AI's threat to humanity

Why one of the field's founders now spends his time on catastrophic risk. Nature may ask you to subscribe.

Demis Hassabis

Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind

Demis Hassabis Is Preparing for AI's Endgame

Traces the line from a Nobel-winning protein-folding model to his stated goal of building general AI.

Dario Amodei

Co-founder and CEO of Anthropic

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI's Potential, OpenAI Rivalry, GenAI Business, Doomerism

A long, unedited conversation where he is pushed on both the business case and the risks.

Ilya Sutskever

Co-founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc.

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Building AGI, Alignment, & Future Models

Recorded before he left OpenAI, so it shows what he believed while still building the models there.

Andrej Karpathy

Founding OpenAI member, former Tesla Autopilot lead, now pretraining research at Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy — AGI is still a decade away

A builder's case for why the timelines you read in headlines are too short.

Andrew Ng

Founder, DeepLearning.AI; Co-founder, Coursera

Andrew Ng: Why AI coding is the new literacy

Useful if you're deciding what to learn: he argues what's worth your study time and what isn't.

Arvind Narayanan

Professor of Computer Science at Princeton; co-author of AI Snake Oil

Interviewing Arvind Narayanan on making sense of AI hype

A working method for telling a real capability from a press release, from the AI Snake Oil co-author.

Emily M. Bender

Linguist; co-author of "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots"

What Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots"

She corrects what people think her famous paper said — worth reading before you quote it.

Margaret Mitchell

Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; lead author of Model Cards

Machine Learning Experts — Margaret Mitchell

How an ethics team actually works inside a company, and where bias enters through the data.

Kate Crawford

Author of Atlas of AI; research professor at USC Annenberg

Kate Crawford interview: How AI is exploiting people and the planet

The labor, minerals and electricity behind the software. New Scientist may ask you to subscribe.

Cathy O'Neil

Mathematician; author of Weapons of Math Destruction; founder of ORCAA

Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction

Older, and still the clearest explanation of how hiring and sentencing scores go wrong.

Abeba Birhane

Cognitive scientist; founder of the AI Accountability Lab at Trinity College Dublin

AI industry is influencing the world. Mozilla adviser Abeba Birhane is challenging its core values

What she found when she audited the giant image datasets that picture generators were trained on.

Haben Girma

Disability Rights Lawyer, Author

Advancing Disability Rights: An Interview with Haben Girma

Disability as a design problem rather than a personal one, from the first Deafblind Harvard Law graduate.

Adam Grant

Organizational Psychologist, Wharton Professor

Dr. Adam Grant: How to Unlock Your Potential, Motivation & Unique Abilities

Practical ground on motivation, feedback and procrastination — directly usable during a job search.

Marc Randolph

Netflix co-founder and serial entrepreneur

Marc Randolph on Building Netflix, Battling Blockbuster, and Negotiating with Amazon

The unglamorous early version of a company everyone now thinks was obvious.

Jensen Huang

Co-founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA

Jensen Huang: NVIDIA — the company, the AI revolution, and how he leads

Full transcript, so you can read it rather than sit through hours of audio.