Map of Modern AI Discourse
100 voices across 3 continents
Part 1 โ Quadrant x Role by Geography
The 2x2 grid (Is AGI close? x Build fast?) with each person color-coded by professional role. Four tabs.
Researcher / Scientist
CEO / Builder
Investor / Ecosystem
Journalist / Media
Policy / Ethics / Safety
Philosopher / Theorist
↑ AGI IS CLOSE
AGI is Close + Slow Down
We see what is coming and it terrifies us.
Eliezer Yudkowsky ๐บ๐ธ
Yoshua Bengio ๐จ๐ฆ
Tristan Harris ๐บ๐ธ
Leopold Aschenbrenner ๐บ๐ธ
Zvi Mowshowitz ๐บ๐ธ
Geoffrey Hinton ๐ฌ๐ง
Nick Bostrom ๐ธ๐ช
Max Tegmark ๐ธ๐ช
Connor Leahy ๐ฌ๐ง
Stuart Russell ๐ฌ๐ง
Ian Hogarth ๐ฌ๐ง
Matt Clifford ๐ฌ๐ง
Andrew Yao (ๅงๆๆบ) ๐จ๐ณ
13 people. 4 Philosopher, 4 Researcher, 3 Policy, 1 Journalist, 1 CEO.
AGI is Close + Build Fast
This is the defining technology โ accelerate, iterate, ship.
Sam Altman ๐บ๐ธ
Dario Amodei ๐บ๐ธ
Daniela Amodei ๐บ๐ธ
Ilya Sutskever ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐จ๐ฆ
Ray Kurzweil ๐บ๐ธ
Guillaume Verdon ๐จ๐ฆ
Marc Andreessen ๐บ๐ธ
Mira Murati ๐บ๐ธ
Jan Leike ๐ฉ๐ชโ๐บ๐ธ
Mark Zuckerberg ๐บ๐ธ
Jensen Huang ๐บ๐ธ
Satya Nadella ๐บ๐ธ
Sundar Pichai ๐บ๐ธ
Eric Schmidt ๐บ๐ธ
Chris Olah ๐จ๐ฆ
Noam Brown ๐บ๐ธ
Demis Hassabis ๐ฌ๐ง
Mustafa Suleyman ๐ฌ๐ง
Emad Mostaque ๐ฌ๐ง
Shakir Mohamed ๐ฌ๐ง
Liang Wenfeng (ๆขๆ้) ๐จ๐ณ
Robin Li (ๆๅฝฆๅฎ) ๐จ๐ณ
Yang Zhilin (ๆจๆค้บ) ๐จ๐ณ
Zhang Peng (ๅผ ้น) ๐จ๐ณ
Li Dahai (ๆๅคงๆตท) ๐จ๐ณ
Wang Xiaochuan (็ๅฐๅท) ๐จ๐ณ
Pony Ma (้ฉฌๅ่
พ) ๐จ๐ณ
Zhang Yiming (ๅผ ไธ้ธฃ) ๐จ๐ณ
Jack Ma (้ฉฌไบ) ๐จ๐ณ
Ren Zhengfei (ไปปๆญฃ้) ๐จ๐ณ
Zhou Bowen (ๅจไผฏๆ) ๐จ๐ณ
Wang Huiwen (็ๆ
งๆ) ๐จ๐ณ
Fu Sheng (ๅ
็) ๐จ๐ณ
Li Zhifei (ๆๅฟ้ฃ) ๐จ๐ณ
Shen Xiangyang (ๆฒๅๆด) ๐จ๐ณ
35 people. 26 CEO, 4 Researcher, 2 Philosopher, 2 Investor, 1 Policy.
← SLOW DOWN
BUILD FAST →
AGI Not Close + Slow Down
Current AI is overhyped. Focus on real harms today.
Timnit Gebru ๐บ๐ธ
Emily Bender ๐บ๐ธ
Kate Crawford ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ
Joy Buolamwini ๐บ๐ธ
Gary Marcus ๐บ๐ธ
Rodney Brooks ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ
Arvind Narayanan ๐บ๐ธ
Lina Khan ๐บ๐ธ
Alondra Nelson ๐บ๐ธ
Margrethe Vestager ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Cedric Villani ๐ซ๐ท
Luciano Floridi ๐ฎ๐น
Zeng Yi (ๆพๆฏ
) ๐จ๐ณ
Xu Li (ๅพ็ซ) ๐จ๐ณ
Zheng Nanning (้ๅๅฎ) ๐จ๐ณ
Hao Jingfang (้ๆฏ่ณ) ๐จ๐ณ
16 people. 10 Policy, 4 Researcher, 2 Philosopher.
AGI Not Close + Build Pragmatically
AI is useful now. Ship products, educate, build infrastructure.
Andrew Ng ๐บ๐ธ
Fei-Fei Li ๐บ๐ธ
Andrej Karpathy ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ
Kai-Fu Lee ๐น๐ผ๐บ๐ธ
Reid Hoffman ๐บ๐ธ
Ajeya Cotra ๐บ๐ธ
Ezra Klein ๐บ๐ธ
Jia Yangqing ๐จ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ
Lisa Su ๐บ๐ธ
Yejin Choi ๐บ๐ธ
Tim Cook ๐บ๐ธ
Percy Liang ๐บ๐ธ
Yann LeCun ๐ซ๐ท
Francois Chollet ๐ซ๐ท
Arthur Mensch ๐ซ๐ท
Clement Delangue ๐ซ๐ท
Jurgen Schmidhuber ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ญ
Lu Qi (้ๅฅ) ๐จ๐ณ
He Kaiming (ไฝๆบๆ) ๐จ๐ณ
Zhu Songchun (ๆฑๆพ็บฏ) ๐จ๐ณ
Tang Xiaoou (ๆฑคๆ้ธฅ) ๐จ๐ณ
Wang Jian (็ๅ) ๐จ๐ณ
Zhang Hongjiang (ๅผ ๅฎๆฑ) ๐จ๐ณ
23 people. 13 Researcher, 7 CEO, 2 Policy, 1 Investor.
↓ AGI IS FAR
Media & Narrators (span all quadrants)
Kevin Roose ๐บ๐ธ
Casey Newton ๐บ๐ธ
Lex Fridman ๐บ๐ธ
Dwarkesh Patel ๐บ๐ธ
Kara Swisher ๐บ๐ธ
Azeem Azhar ๐ฌ๐ง
Hannah Fry ๐ฌ๐ง
Benedict Evans ๐ฌ๐ง
Simon Willison ๐ฌ๐ง
Luo Zhenyu (็ฝๆฏๅฎ) ๐จ๐ณ
Wu Xiaobo (ๅดๆๆณข) ๐จ๐ณ
Pan Luan (ๆฝไนฑ) ๐จ๐ณ
Huo Ju (้็ฌ) ๐จ๐ณ
Three-Way Comparison: Americas vs. Europe vs. China
AMERICAS ๐บ๐ธ (47)
5
Close+Slow
16
Close+Build
9
Far+Slow
12
Far+Build
+ 5 media. Build-side: 67%
EUROPE ๐ช๐บ (23)
7
Close+Slow
4
Close+Build
3
Far+Slow
5
Far+Build
+ 4 media. Build-side: 47%
CHINA ๐จ๐ณ (30)
1
Close+Slow
15
Close+Build
4
Far+Slow
6
Far+Build
+ 4 media. Build-side: 81%
The pattern is unmistakable. Each region mirrors its political economy:
Americas: The most polarised. A massive build-fast bloc of CEOs and investors faces a vocal ethics/activist camp.
Europe: The most balanced and cautious. The only region where slow-down matches or exceeds build. A unique regulatory quadrant. Governance as product.
China: The most lopsided. 80%+ on the build side. Almost no public doomers. Ethics runs through state channels.
Researcher / Scientist
CEO / Builder
Investor / Ecosystem
Journalist / Media
Policy / Ethics / Safety
Philosopher / Theorist
↑ AGI IS CLOSE
AGI is Close + Slow Down
We see what is coming and it terrifies us.
Eliezer Yudkowsky ๐บ๐ธ
Yoshua Bengio ๐จ๐ฆ
Tristan Harris ๐บ๐ธ
Leopold Aschenbrenner ๐บ๐ธ
Zvi Mowshowitz ๐บ๐ธ
5 people. 2 Philosopher, 1 Researcher, 1 Policy, 1 Journalist.
AGI is Close + Build Fast
This is the defining technology โ accelerate, iterate, ship.
Sam Altman ๐บ๐ธ
Dario Amodei ๐บ๐ธ
Daniela Amodei ๐บ๐ธ
Ilya Sutskever ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐จ๐ฆ
Ray Kurzweil ๐บ๐ธ
Guillaume Verdon ๐จ๐ฆ
Marc Andreessen ๐บ๐ธ
Mira Murati ๐บ๐ธ
Jan Leike ๐ฉ๐ชโ๐บ๐ธ
Mark Zuckerberg ๐บ๐ธ
Jensen Huang ๐บ๐ธ
Satya Nadella ๐บ๐ธ
Sundar Pichai ๐บ๐ธ
Eric Schmidt ๐บ๐ธ
Chris Olah ๐จ๐ฆ
Noam Brown ๐บ๐ธ
16 people. 9 CEO, 2 Philosopher, 2 Investor, 2 Researcher, 1 Policy.
← SLOW DOWN
BUILD FAST →
AGI Not Close + Slow Down
Current AI is overhyped. Focus on real harms today.
Timnit Gebru ๐บ๐ธ
Emily Bender ๐บ๐ธ
Kate Crawford ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ
Joy Buolamwini ๐บ๐ธ
Gary Marcus ๐บ๐ธ
Rodney Brooks ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ
Arvind Narayanan ๐บ๐ธ
Lina Khan ๐บ๐ธ
Alondra Nelson ๐บ๐ธ
9 people. 5 Policy, 3 Researcher, 1 Philosopher.
AGI Not Close + Build Pragmatically
AI is useful now. Ship products, educate, build infrastructure.
Andrew Ng ๐บ๐ธ
Fei-Fei Li ๐บ๐ธ
Andrej Karpathy ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ
Kai-Fu Lee ๐น๐ผ๐บ๐ธ
Reid Hoffman ๐บ๐ธ
Ajeya Cotra ๐บ๐ธ
Ezra Klein ๐บ๐ธ
Jia Yangqing ๐จ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ
Lisa Su ๐บ๐ธ
Yejin Choi ๐บ๐ธ
Tim Cook ๐บ๐ธ
Percy Liang ๐บ๐ธ
12 people. 6 Researcher, 3 CEO, 2 Policy, 1 Investor.
↓ AGI IS FAR
Media & Narrators (span all quadrants)
Kevin Roose ๐บ๐ธ
Casey Newton ๐บ๐ธ
Lex Fridman ๐บ๐ธ
Dwarkesh Patel ๐บ๐ธ
Kara Swisher ๐บ๐ธ
Americas: The Polarised Superpower
CEOs and investors pack the top-right. The people with the most to gain financially are the most bullish on AGI.
The activist quadrant (bottom-left) is uniquely American. Gebru, Buolamwini, Khan, Nelson โ adversarial critics. No equivalent in China.
The media engine is American. All 5 major AI media voices are US-based. The narrative is set in San Francisco.
Bridge figures (Kai-Fu Lee, Jia Yangqing) connect Silicon Valley to Asia.
Researcher / Scientist
CEO / Builder
Investor / Ecosystem
Journalist / Media
Policy / Ethics / Safety
Philosopher / Theorist
↑ AGI IS CLOSE
AGI is Close + Slow Down
We see what is coming and it terrifies us.
Geoffrey Hinton ๐ฌ๐ง
Nick Bostrom ๐ธ๐ช
Max Tegmark ๐ธ๐ช
Connor Leahy ๐ฌ๐ง
Stuart Russell ๐ฌ๐ง
Ian Hogarth ๐ฌ๐ง
Matt Clifford ๐ฌ๐ง
7 people. 2 Researcher, 2 Philosopher, 2 Policy, 1 CEO.
AGI is Close + Build Fast
This is the defining technology โ accelerate, iterate, ship.
Demis Hassabis ๐ฌ๐ง
Mustafa Suleyman ๐ฌ๐ง
Emad Mostaque ๐ฌ๐ง
Shakir Mohamed ๐ฌ๐ง
4 people. 3 CEO, 1 Researcher.
← SLOW DOWN
BUILD FAST →
AGI Not Close + Slow Down
Current AI is overhyped. Focus on real harms today.
Margrethe Vestager ๐ฉ๐ฐ
Cedric Villani ๐ซ๐ท
Luciano Floridi ๐ฎ๐น
3 people. 2 Policy, 1 Philosopher.
AGI Not Close + Build Pragmatically
AI is useful now. Ship products, educate, build infrastructure.
Yann LeCun ๐ซ๐ท
Francois Chollet ๐ซ๐ท
Arthur Mensch ๐ซ๐ท
Clement Delangue ๐ซ๐ท
Jurgen Schmidhuber ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ญ
5 people. 3 Researcher, 2 CEO.
↓ AGI IS FAR
Media & Narrators (span all quadrants)
Azeem Azhar ๐ฌ๐ง
Hannah Fry ๐ฌ๐ง
Benedict Evans ๐ฌ๐ง
Simon Willison ๐ฌ๐ง
Europe: The Regulator-Builder Paradox
Britain builds, Brussels regulates, France does both. Frontier builders (Hassabis, Suleyman) are British DeepMind alumni. Regulators (Vestager, Villani) are continental.
The builder gap is real. Only 4 in build-fast vs. 21 Americas and 16 China.
Open-source as European strategy. Mensch (Mistral) and Delangue (Hugging Face) position open-weight as competitive counter.
The French quadrant: 4 of 5 pragmatic builders are French. France is Europe AI engine.
Researcher / Scientist
CEO / Builder
Investor / Ecosystem
Journalist / Media
Policy / Ethics / Safety
Philosopher / Theorist
↑ AGI IS CLOSE
AGI is Close + Slow Down
We see what is coming and it terrifies us.
Andrew Yao (ๅงๆๆบ) ๐จ๐ณ
1 people. 1 Researcher.
AGI is Close + Build Fast
This is the defining technology โ accelerate, iterate, ship.
Liang Wenfeng (ๆขๆ้) ๐จ๐ณ
Robin Li (ๆๅฝฆๅฎ) ๐จ๐ณ
Yang Zhilin (ๆจๆค้บ) ๐จ๐ณ
Zhang Peng (ๅผ ้น) ๐จ๐ณ
Li Dahai (ๆๅคงๆตท) ๐จ๐ณ
Wang Xiaochuan (็ๅฐๅท) ๐จ๐ณ
Pony Ma (้ฉฌๅ่
พ) ๐จ๐ณ
Zhang Yiming (ๅผ ไธ้ธฃ) ๐จ๐ณ
Jack Ma (้ฉฌไบ) ๐จ๐ณ
Ren Zhengfei (ไปปๆญฃ้) ๐จ๐ณ
Zhou Bowen (ๅจไผฏๆ) ๐จ๐ณ
Wang Huiwen (็ๆ
งๆ) ๐จ๐ณ
Fu Sheng (ๅ
็) ๐จ๐ณ
Li Zhifei (ๆๅฟ้ฃ) ๐จ๐ณ
Shen Xiangyang (ๆฒๅๆด) ๐จ๐ณ
15 people. 14 CEO, 1 Researcher.
← SLOW DOWN
BUILD FAST →
AGI Not Close + Slow Down
Current AI is overhyped. Focus on real harms today.
Zeng Yi (ๆพๆฏ
) ๐จ๐ณ
Xu Li (ๅพ็ซ) ๐จ๐ณ
Zheng Nanning (้ๅๅฎ) ๐จ๐ณ
Hao Jingfang (้ๆฏ่ณ) ๐จ๐ณ
4 people. 3 Policy, 1 Researcher.
AGI Not Close + Build Pragmatically
AI is useful now. Ship products, educate, build infrastructure.
Lu Qi (้ๅฅ) ๐จ๐ณ
He Kaiming (ไฝๆบๆ) ๐จ๐ณ
Zhu Songchun (ๆฑๆพ็บฏ) ๐จ๐ณ
Tang Xiaoou (ๆฑคๆ้ธฅ) ๐จ๐ณ
Wang Jian (็ๅ) ๐จ๐ณ
Zhang Hongjiang (ๅผ ๅฎๆฑ) ๐จ๐ณ
6 people. 4 Researcher, 2 CEO.
↓ AGI IS FAR
Media & Narrators (span all quadrants)
Luo Zhenyu (็ฝๆฏๅฎ) ๐จ๐ณ
Wu Xiaobo (ๅดๆๆณข) ๐จ๐ณ
Pan Luan (ๆฝไนฑ) ๐จ๐ณ
Huo Ju (้็ฌ) ๐จ๐ณ
China: The Builder Consensus
The doomer quadrant barely exists. Only Andrew Yao has the stature to speak freely on slowdowns.
Build fast is the overwhelming default. 16 of 26 non-media figures land in build-fast. DeepSeek + state directives = acceleration consensus.
Ethics does not equal activism. Chinese ethics voices work within state-adjacent institutions.
No philosopher cluster. No Chinese Yudkowsky or Bostrom. Discourse is pragmatic, not speculative.
Part 2 โ The 100
All 100 voices in a single unified list โ 47 Americas, 23 Europe, 30 China.
| # | Name | Role / Affiliation | Geography | Tagline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eliezer Yudkowsky ๐บ๐ธ | MIRI founder | Americas | Shut it down! Doomed. |
| 2 | Yoshua Bengio ๐จ๐ฆ | Mila, Turing Award | Americas | Deep learning pioneer turned safety advocate. |
| 3 | Tristan Harris ๐บ๐ธ | Center for Humane Technology | Americas | Attention economy to AI x-risk. |
| 4 | Leopold Aschenbrenner ๐บ๐ธ | Ex-OpenAI, author | Americas | Situational Awareness. AGI by 2027. |
| 5 | Zvi Mowshowitz ๐บ๐ธ | Blogger / Rationalist | Americas | Rationalist watchdog. Tracks everything. |
| 6 | Sam Altman ๐บ๐ธ | OpenAI CEO | Americas | Scale to AGI. |
| 7 | Dario Amodei ๐บ๐ธ | Anthropic CEO | Americas | Responsible race to the top. |
| 8 | Daniela Amodei ๐บ๐ธ | Anthropic President | Americas | Scaling safety as business. |
| 9 | Ilya Sutskever ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐จ๐ฆ | SSI co-founder, ex-OpenAI | Americas | Safe superintelligence first. |
| 10 | Ray Kurzweil ๐บ๐ธ | Google, futurist | Americas | Singularity is Near! Exponential optimism. |
| 11 | Guillaume Verdon ๐จ๐ฆ | e/acc founder | Americas | Thermodynamic imperative! |
| 12 | Marc Andreessen ๐บ๐ธ | a16z co-founder | Americas | Techno-Optimist Manifesto. |
| 13 | Mira Murati ๐บ๐ธ | Ex-OpenAI CTO | Americas | Shipped GPT-4 and ChatGPT. |
| 14 | Jan Leike ๐ฉ๐ชโ๐บ๐ธ | Anthropic, Alignment Science | Americas | Left OpenAI over safety. |
| 15 | Mark Zuckerberg ๐บ๐ธ | Meta CEO | Americas | Open-source Llama champion. |
| 16 | Jensen Huang ๐บ๐ธ | NVIDIA CEO | Americas | GPU kingmaker. |
| 17 | Satya Nadella ๐บ๐ธ | Microsoft CEO | Americas | Bet the company on OpenAI. |
| 18 | Sundar Pichai ๐บ๐ธ | Google/Alphabet CEO | Americas | Gemini era. |
| 19 | Eric Schmidt ๐บ๐ธ | Ex-Google CEO, investor | Americas | National security AI hawk. |
| 20 | Chris Olah ๐จ๐ฆ | Anthropic | Americas | Interpretability pioneer. |
| 21 | Noam Brown ๐บ๐ธ | Meta FAIR | Americas | Reasoning and planning AI researcher. |
| 22 | Timnit Gebru ๐บ๐ธ | DAIR Institute founder | Americas | Justice and ethics now. |
| 23 | Emily Bender ๐บ๐ธ | UW Linguistics | Americas | Stochastic Parrots. |
| 24 | Kate Crawford ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ | USC / Microsoft Research | Americas | Atlas of AI. |
| 25 | Joy Buolamwini ๐บ๐ธ | Algorithmic Justice League | Americas | Unmasking AI. |
| 26 | Gary Marcus ๐บ๐ธ | NYU, author | Americas | Deep Learning Wall. Hybrid AI needed. |
| 27 | Rodney Brooks ๐ฆ๐บ๐บ๐ธ | MIT, iRobot co-founder | Americas | Embodied skeptic. |
| 28 | Arvind Narayanan ๐บ๐ธ | Princeton | Americas | AI Snake Oil. Debunking hype. |
| 29 | Lina Khan ๐บ๐ธ | FTC Chair | Americas | AI antitrust and regulation. |
| 30 | Alondra Nelson ๐บ๐ธ | Former White House OSTP | Americas | AI policy architect. |
| 31 | Andrew Ng ๐บ๐ธ | Stanford / DeepLearning.AI | Americas | AI as utility. Pragmatist. |
| 32 | Fei-Fei Li ๐บ๐ธ | Stanford HAI / World Labs | Americas | Godmother of AI. |
| 33 | Andrej Karpathy ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ | Ex-Tesla/OpenAI, educator | Americas | AI favourite teacher. Builds in public. |
| 34 | Kai-Fu Lee ๐น๐ผ๐บ๐ธ | 01.AI CEO, Sinovation | Americas | East-West bridge. AI Superpowers. |
| 35 | Reid Hoffman ๐บ๐ธ | Greylock / LinkedIn co-founder | Americas | Techno-humanist. |
| 36 | Ajeya Cotra ๐บ๐ธ | Open Philanthropy | Americas | AI timeline forecasting. |
| 37 | Ezra Klein ๐บ๐ธ | NYT columnist | Americas | Policy wonk, nuclear analogy. |
| 38 | Jia Yangqing ๐จ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ | Lepton AI, Caffe co-creator | Americas | Built the frameworks. Now building infra. |
| 39 | Lisa Su ๐บ๐ธ | AMD CEO | Americas | AI hardware challenger. |
| 40 | Yejin Choi ๐บ๐ธ | UW / Allen AI | Americas | Commonsense reasoning. MacArthur Fellow. |
| 41 | Tim Cook ๐บ๐ธ | Apple CEO | Americas | Apple Intelligence. On-device AI. |
| 42 | Percy Liang ๐บ๐ธ | Stanford HELM | Americas | AI benchmarking and transparency. |
| 43 | Kevin Roose ๐บ๐ธ | NYT tech columnist | Americas | Anxious mainstream voice. |
| 44 | Casey Newton ๐บ๐ธ | Platformer | Americas | Pragmatic tech reporter. |
| 45 | Lex Fridman ๐บ๐ธ | MIT, podcaster | Americas | Optimistic host. Long-form. |
| 46 | Dwarkesh Patel ๐บ๐ธ | Podcaster / Interviewer | Americas | Deep-dive interviews. |
| 47 | Kara Swisher ๐บ๐ธ | Pivot podcast | Americas | Tech journalism sharpest voice. |
| 48 | Geoffrey Hinton ๐ฌ๐ง | Turing Award, ex-Google | Europe | Regretful Godfather. Left Google to warn. |
| 49 | Nick Bostrom ๐ธ๐ช | Oxford FHI | Europe | Superintelligence. Original x-risk thinker. |
| 50 | Max Tegmark ๐ธ๐ช | MIT / FLI founder | Europe | Life 3.0. Pause and regulate. |
| 51 | Connor Leahy ๐ฌ๐ง | Conjecture CEO | Europe | Young doomer. Alignment startup. |
| 52 | Stuart Russell ๐ฌ๐ง | UC Berkeley | Europe | Human Compatible. |
| 53 | Ian Hogarth ๐ฌ๐ง | UK AI Safety Institute | Europe | Chair of UK AISI. |
| 54 | Matt Clifford ๐ฌ๐ง | Entrepreneur First | Europe | UK AI Safety Summit co-chair. |
| 55 | Demis Hassabis ๐ฌ๐ง | Google DeepMind CEO | Europe | Nobel laureate. Cautious architect. |
| 56 | Mustafa Suleyman ๐ฌ๐ง | Microsoft AI CEO | Europe | The Coming Wave. Containment problem. |
| 57 | Emad Mostaque ๐ฌ๐ง | Ex-Stability AI CEO | Europe | Generative AI democratiser. |
| 58 | Shakir Mohamed ๐ฌ๐ง | DeepMind VP Research | Europe | AI for social good. |
| 59 | Margrethe Vestager ๐ฉ๐ฐ | EU Commission | Europe | EU AI Act architect. |
| 60 | Cedric Villani ๐ซ๐ท | Fields Medal, deputy | Europe | France national AI strategy author. |
| 61 | Luciano Floridi ๐ฎ๐น | Yale / Bologna | Europe | AI ethics philosopher. |
| 62 | Yann LeCun ๐ซ๐ท | Meta, Turing Award | Europe | No AGI via LLMs. Need new architectures. |
| 63 | Francois Chollet ๐ซ๐ท | Google / Keras creator | Europe | Reasoning needed, not scaling. |
| 64 | Arthur Mensch ๐ซ๐ท | Mistral AI CEO | Europe | Europe frontier lab. Open-weight. |
| 65 | Clement Delangue ๐ซ๐ท | Hugging Face CEO | Europe | Open-source AI for everyone. |
| 66 | Jurgen Schmidhuber ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ญ | IDSIA / KAUST | Europe | LSTM co-inventor. |
| 67 | Azeem Azhar ๐ฌ๐ง | Exponential View | Europe | Newsletter and podcast. |
| 68 | Hannah Fry ๐ฌ๐ง | BBC / UCL | Europe | Mathematician and AI communicator. |
| 69 | Benedict Evans ๐ฌ๐ง | Tech analyst / newsletter | Europe | AI market analysis. |
| 70 | Simon Willison ๐ฌ๐ง | Developer / blogger | Europe | AI tools and open-source. |
| 71 | Andrew Yao (ๅงๆๆบ) ๐จ๐ณ | Tsinghua, Turing Award | China | AI safety advocate in China. |
| 72 | Liang Wenfeng (ๆขๆ้) ๐จ๐ณ | DeepSeek CEO | China | 2025 breakout. Open-source disruptor. |
| 73 | Robin Li (ๆๅฝฆๅฎ) ๐จ๐ณ | Baidu CEO | China | ERNIE Bot. Search-to-AI pivot. |
| 74 | Yang Zhilin (ๆจๆค้บ) ๐จ๐ณ | Moonshot AI (Kimi) | China | Young frontier builder. |
| 75 | Zhang Peng (ๅผ ้น) ๐จ๐ณ | Zhipu AI CEO | China | Tsinghua-backed ChatGLM. |
| 76 | Li Dahai (ๆๅคงๆตท) ๐จ๐ณ | MiniMax co-founder | China | Consumer AI apps. |
| 77 | Wang Xiaochuan (็ๅฐๅท) ๐จ๐ณ | Baichuan AI / ex-Sogou | China | LLM race. |
| 78 | Pony Ma (้ฉฌๅ่ พ) ๐จ๐ณ | Tencent CEO | China | WeChat AI integration. |
| 79 | Zhang Yiming (ๅผ ไธ้ธฃ) ๐จ๐ณ | ByteDance founder | China | AI-first recommendation then LLMs. |
| 80 | Jack Ma (้ฉฌไบ) ๐จ๐ณ | Alibaba founder | China | Qwen models. Cloud AI. |
| 81 | Ren Zhengfei (ไปปๆญฃ้) ๐จ๐ณ | Huawei founder | China | AI chips and infra under sanctions. |
| 82 | Zhou Bowen (ๅจไผฏๆ) ๐จ๐ณ | Shanghai AI Lab | China | State-backed frontier research. |
| 83 | Wang Huiwen (็ๆ งๆ) ๐จ๐ณ | Ex-Meituan, AI startup | China | Light Years Beyond. |
| 84 | Fu Sheng (ๅ ็) ๐จ๐ณ | OrionStar robotics | China | Active AI commentator. |
| 85 | Li Zhifei (ๆๅฟ้ฃ) ๐จ๐ณ | Mobvoi founder | China | AI voice and LLMs. |
| 86 | Shen Xiangyang (ๆฒๅๆด) ๐จ๐ณ | Ex-Microsoft EVP, Xiabing AI | China | XiaoIce CEO. |
| 87 | Zeng Yi (ๆพๆฏ ) ๐จ๐ณ | Chinese Academy of Sciences | China | AI ethics and governance. |
| 88 | Xu Li (ๅพ็ซ) ๐จ๐ณ | SenseTime CEO | China | Navigating AI governance. |
| 89 | Zheng Nanning (้ๅๅฎ) ๐จ๐ณ | Xi'an Jiaotong Univ. | China | CAS Academician. Perception pioneer. |
| 90 | Hao Jingfang (้ๆฏ่ณ) ๐จ๐ณ | Hugo Award SciFi writer | China | AI ethics commentator. |
| 91 | Lu Qi (้ๅฅ) ๐จ๐ณ | MiraclePlus (YC China) | China | Ex-Baidu COO. Ecosystem builder. |
| 92 | He Kaiming (ไฝๆบๆ) ๐จ๐ณ | MIT (ex-FAIR) | China | ResNet inventor. |
| 93 | Zhu Songchun (ๆฑๆพ็บฏ) ๐จ๐ณ | BIGAI director | China | Cognitive AI. |
| 94 | Tang Xiaoou (ๆฑคๆ้ธฅ) ๐จ๐ณ | SenseTime co-founder | China | CV and AI pioneer (d. 2023). |
| 95 | Wang Jian (็ๅ) ๐จ๐ณ | Alibaba Cloud founder | China | City Brain. CAS Academician. |
| 96 | Zhang Hongjiang (ๅผ ๅฎๆฑ) ๐จ๐ณ | Zhiyuan Research Institute | China | Ex-MSRA head. |
| 97 | Luo Zhenyu (็ฝๆฏๅฎ) ๐จ๐ณ | Dedao platform | China | Knowledge and AI evangelist. |
| 98 | Wu Xiaobo (ๅดๆๆณข) ๐จ๐ณ | Author / commentator | China | Business and tech commentary. |
| 99 | Pan Luan (ๆฝไนฑ) ๐จ๐ณ | Tech journalist | China | Deep dives on Chinese AI. |
| 100 | Huo Ju (้็ฌ) ๐จ๐ณ | Tech blogger | China | AI and open-source commentary. |
Part 3 โ The Original 24
The people mapped in the original PDF, on two axes: Acceleration vs Deceleration and True Believers vs Skeptics.
| # | Name | Original Group | Tagline |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Safety / Doomer | Shut it down! Doomed. |
| 2 | Max Tegmark | Safety / Doomer | Pause and Regulate. |
| 3 | Geoffrey Hinton | Safety / Doomer | Regretful Godfather. |
| 4 | Zvi Mowshowitz | Safety / Doomer | Rationalist Watchdog. |
| 5 | Ilya Sutskever | Safety / Doomer | Safe Superintelligence First. |
| 6 | Ezra Klein | Safety / Doomer | Policy Wonk, Nuclear Analogy. |
| 7 | Timnit Gebru | Ethicists and Critics | Justice and Ethics Now. |
| 8 | Emily Bender | Ethicists and Critics | Stochastic Parrots. |
| 9 | Gary Marcus | Ethicists and Critics | Deep Learning Wall. |
| 10 | Rodney Brooks | Skeptic | Embodied Skeptic. |
| 11 | Kevin Roose | Skeptic | Anxious Mainstream Voice. |
| 12 | Yann LeCun | Pragmatic Scientist | No AGI via LLM. |
| 13 | Francois Chollet | Pragmatic Scientist | Reasoning Needed, Not Scaling. |
| 14 | Dario Amodei | Builders and Futurists | Responsible Race to Top. |
| 15 | Ray Kurzweil | Builders and Futurists | Singularity is Near! |
| 16 | Dwarkesh Patel | Builders and Futurists | Deep Diver. |
| 17 | Demis Hassabis | Builders and Futurists | Cautious Architect. |
| 18 | Sam Altman | Builders and Futurists | Scale to AGI. |
| 19 | Marc Andreessen | Builders and Futurists | Techno-Optimist Manifesto. |
| 20 | Lex Fridman | Builders and Futurists | Optimistic Host. |
| 21 | Guillaume Verdon | e/acc | Thermodynamic Imperative! |
| 22 | Casey Newton | Media | Pragmatic Reporter. |
| 23 | Mark Zuckerberg | Builders and Futurists | Open Source Champion. |
| 24 | Andrew Ng | Pragmatic Scientist | Pragmatist, AI as Utility. |