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Hamel Husain
Personal site of machine-learning engineer Hamel Husain, with writing and teaching on AI evaluation, debugging, analysis, and measurement, drawing on prior work at Airbnb and GitHub.
Personal SiteFreeFrançois Chollet — Personal Page
The personal site of François Chollet, software engineer and AI researcher, co-founder of Ndea and the ARC Prize. It collects his books (including Deep Learning with Python), software, papers, essays and talks, and describes his research interests: the nature of abstraction, autonomous abstraction algorithms, and democratizing AI development.
Personal SiteFreeJoe Carlsmith — Essays on Philosophy and the Long-Term Future
The personal site of Joe Carlsmith, a writer, researcher and philosopher at Anthropic working on Claude's constitution, with essays on ethics, effective altruism, the long-term future and advanced AI.
BlogFreePeter Steinberger (steipete)
Blog of developer Peter Steinberger covering AI-powered tools and software development, with code published on GitHub.
BlogFreeSeverin Field
Personal site of Severin Field, visiting fellow at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy and former MATS research fellow, who has studied interpretability, deception and persuasion in language models. Links to his blog and publications.
WebsiteFreemakeworld.space — Personal Site and Blog
The personal site and blog of a Toronto-based open source developer known for Amfora, a terminal browser for the Gemini protocol, and for image dithering tools (dither, didder, Dithertime). Posts cover small-internet protocols, open source projects, voting systems, and software design. Free to read.
BlogFreeA. Feder Cooper
Personal site of A. Feder Cooper, a researcher working on the intersection of machine learning and law, including work on copyright and generative AI, data privacy and ML systems. Lists publications, talks and writing.
Person to FollowFreeCal Newport — Study Hacks Blog
Site of Cal Newport, computer science professor and author of Deep Work, with his long-running blog on focus, productivity, and technology's role in work and life.
BlogFreeIris van Rooij — Posts
Blog posts by Iris van Rooij, a cognitive scientist whose writing covers cognition, computation, and critical perspectives on AI claims.
BlogFreeWhere's Your Ed At — About
About page for Where's Your Ed At, Ed Zitron's newsletter and podcast taking a critical look at the tech industry, including its coverage of AI companies and spending.
NewsletterFreePhil Terry (Phyl.org)
Personal hub of Phil Terry, founder of Collaborative Gain and co-creator of Never Search Alone, the volunteer-led movement offering free job-search support groups.
Person to FollowFreeErik Brynjolfsson
Personal site of the Stanford economist who directs the Digital Economy Lab, with links to his research on AI, productivity and work.
Person to FollowFreeSherry Turkle (MIT)
Official site of MIT professor Sherry Turkle, who has spent decades studying how people relate to computers, phones and now AI companions. Books, talks and essays.
WebsiteFreeEric Schmidt on Technology and Power
Essays, interviews and testimony from the former Google chief executive on AI, national competition and technology policy.
Person to FollowFreeFei-Fei Li
Stanford professor who built ImageNet, co-directs Stanford's Human-Centered AI institute and co-founded the AI4ALL diversity pipeline program. Her faculty page collects the work; her Google Scholar list has the papers themselves.
Person to FollowFreeKai-Fu Lee on TED
TED talks from the author of AI Superpowers on how AI changes work and how China and the United States differ in building it.
Person to FollowFreeMustafa Suleyman
Site of the DeepMind co-founder now running Microsoft AI, with his writing on AI and containment.
Person to FollowFreeAndrew Ng
Personal site of Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera and DeepLearning.AI and a founding lead of Google Brain, collecting his courses, writing and current projects.
Person to FollowFreeGeoffrey Hinton's Publications (Google Scholar)
Google Scholar profile listing Geoffrey Hinton's papers in citation order — backpropagation, dropout, AlexNet, t-SNE and the rest of the deep learning canon.
Person to FollowFreeMicah Lee
Security technologist Micah Lee's site — tools, writing and guidance for journalists, researchers and activists working safely.
Person to FollowFreeLittle Flying Robots
Faine Greenwood's independent newsletter on drones, data and technological anxiety, including her global map of drone attacks on civilians.
Person to FollowFreeMarilynn Joyner's Newsletter
Newsletter on career growth, leadership, and navigating work as a professional woman.
NewsletterFreefreeCodeCamp.org - YouTube
Learn math, programming, and computer science for free from a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity.
Person to FollowFreelogicBase Labs - YouTube
Bangladeshi software engineer Sumit Saha teaches web development from no-stack to full-stack with beginner-friendly tutorials and real-world projects.
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