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Richard
Ngo

Philosopher & Researcher

prev. OpenAI, Deepmind

Thinking about possible futures of human civilization in a post-AGI world through AI alignment and coordination research.

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Andy
Cunningham

Cunningham Collective

Founder

Has over 4 decades at the forefront of compute, bringing the Macintosh, RISC, SaaS, cloud services, and Language Processing Units to market. 

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Julie
Fredrickson

Chaotic Capital

Managing Partner

Established the first piece of legislation to protect AI from US regulation as a key advisor on Montana's "Right to Compute" Bill.

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Mel
Melara

Bridgepointe Technologies

Vice President

Represents over 30 years experience in network and data center infrastructure consulting, overseeing Data Center and Cloud practices and sales for the Western US.

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Anton
Troynikov

Chroma

Co-Founder

Working on how to ensure there is enough capacity to build and support the data centers and compute for an AI-powered future.

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Nico
Sarian

Eternity Foundation

Executive Director

Examining how AI-assisted translation of religious and philosophical texts accelerates transmission and redefines the role of the scholar.

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Matt
Parlmer

General Fabrication

Founder

Building robotic factories to increase domestic advanced manufacturing capacity. Fellow at the Center for Industrial Strategy.

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Daniel
Lisi

Network Press

Founder

Bringing insightful, original, and credible perspectives on technology and the future to life, from concept to printed book​.

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Peter
Hirshberg

City Innovate Foundation

Co-Founder

Launching from prior urban innovation projects like Maker City and Gray Area, he's updating city planning and policy decisions with AI and systems modeling. Fellowships at the USC Annenberg Center and Aspen Institute.

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Andrew
McIntosh

Hypernym.ai

Head of Product

Exploring media & content in the AI age, drawing from experiences in animation, building MLOps at Veritone (media buying), & Hypernym's tunable eval and compression layer for foundation models, agents, and platforms.

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Mark
Atwood

Review Commit

Principal Technologist

Advised Amazon's policies on training data, AI hosting, & AI modification of OSS, documentation, & data. Through open source leadership at Amazon & HP, directed projects like Linux's Core Infra, AI & Data, SPDX, & TODO Group.

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Daniel
Keller

ADIN

Partner

Sharing insights on "The New Culture of Sloptimism and Hypergambling" from helping raise money in global online networks and leveraging AI-powered diligence.

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Emma
Kumleben

Leverpoint Labs

Co-Founder

Working on AI tools to facilitate better calibrated policy and more robust decision making in government.

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Lauren
Teixeira

Breakthrough Institute

Climate & Energy Analyst

Among other complex dynamics, studying the mix of factors on whether data centers will result in raising or lowering the cost of power for everyone else.

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Paul
Hainsworth

Silicon.net

Co-Founder

Decentralizing access to compute marketplaces for sellers and buyers.

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Evan
Conrad

SF Compute Company

Founder

Focuses on removing the bottlenecks to bringing more compute to market. 

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Cormac
Siegfried

TrustFoundry

Head of Product

Building AI for local governments with trusted provenance and inference with the CTO of OpenGov.

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Charles Rosenbauer

American Compute Company

Founder

A full-stack, default tolerant approach from compiler to chip fab for processor production resilience and availability.

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Pablo
Peniche

Aqua Voice

Head of Growth

Searching for a new architectural language through mechanistic interpretability and Palladian design principles.

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York
Westenhaver

AlphaFund

CEO

Exploring a paradigm shift from Large Language Models to Large Economic Models and what that implies about the future of automation.

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Jake
Hamilton

Nockbox

Founder

Building distributed infrastructure for Zero-Knowledge Proof of Useful Work.

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Sunny
Aggarwal

Osmosis Labs

Co-Founder

Examining historical patterns of revolution from "The Crown and the Commons" and how AI-powered digital organizations play their part. 

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Adrian
Kilian

Mango Medical

Founder

Building AI for objective, surgeon independent ortho-pedic planning, and paving the way to autonomous robotic surgery.

 

 

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Katherine
Dee

Default.blog

Internet Culture Reporter

Exploring how the collapse of truth invites a return to narrative, symbolism, and mythmaking as primary tools for meaning-making in our new era.

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Harvey Michael
Pratt

Simcluster

CEO

Sharing Lessons on "Slop: The Only Way Out is Through" from building an AI game focused on game design to Scroll, Like, Obey, & Post.

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Clayton
Rabideau

Syntensor

Co-Founder & CEO

Building foundation models and assessing novel dataset opportunities in computational biology.

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Omar
Shams

Google Gemini

AI Researcher

Drawing from experience as a physicist and exited AI founder on how to hyper-scale compute beyond Earth's energy capacity and aiming for the Moon.

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Brooke
Martin

Friends Know Best

CEO & Founder

A startup founder from a very young age, Brooke's latest company is focused on using AI to build a "taste & trust" graph for engendering new kinds of human connection.

 

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