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Voices to track

About 100 people in responsible AI: affiliation, stance and primary channel. 129 distinct links full research note

Compiled 2026-10-12. Purpose: seed list of named people (and a few orgs standing in for people) for Ria's source feeds.

Verification key

200 = curl with a browser user-agent returned HTTP 200 (after redirects) on 2026-10-12. The URL exists and serves a real page. It does not by itself prove the page is current.
200 (redirects to X) = redirect landed on the stated final URL, which is the canonical one.
bot-blocked (403) = server returned 403 to curl. Site is real (confirmed by search results or other pages linking to it) but cannot be fetched by a script. Ria will need a different fetch path (browser, RSS, or a proxy).
timeout = curl got no response in 12s; unverified.
affil. = search-confirmed means the current affiliation was confirmed by a dated 2026 news result in this session. affil. = from memory means the affiliation is from my prior knowledge and was NOT re-verified; check before relying on it.
X/Twitter: x.com returns 200 for any handle, so curl cannot confirm an X account. No X handles are listed because none could be confirmed from a search result or the person's own site. Where X is known to be the person's main venue it is noted as "X-primary, handle unconfirmed".

Role changes in 2026 (verified by search this session)

Person	Change	Source
David Sacks	Left White House AI and crypto czar role (SGE time used up), 2026-03-26. Now co-chair of PCAST with Michael Kratsios. Wikipedia lists Jay Clayton as czar successor (unverified).	cnbc.com/2026/03/26/david-sacks-trump-crypto-a…
Sriram Krishnan	Announced 2026-06-06 he is leaving his White House AI role end of June (had moved to NEC early 2026). Staying as outside adviser per Bloomberg Law; next role unconfirmed.	news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/…
Dean Ball	Hired by OpenAI as head of a new Strategic Futures team, starting 2026-07-06; keeps FAI non-resident fellowship; Hyperdimensional Substack continues. Secondary sources only, no official OpenAI post found.	aiweekly.co/alerts/openai-recruits-former-trum…
Miles Brundage	Launched AVERI (AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute), founding executive director, Jan 2026.	milesbrundage.substack.com/p/the-launch-of-averi
Yann LeCun	Left Meta end of 2025. Executive chairman of AMI Labs (Paris; $1.03B seed, March 2026; CEO Alex LeBrun).	vktr.com/ai-news/yann-lecuns-ami-labs-raises-1…
Andrej Karpathy	Joined Anthropic pretraining team 2026-05-19 (reports to Nick Joseph); Eureka Labs education work paused. Multiple outlets.	axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy…
Scott Wiener	Running for Congress (CA-11, vs. Connie Chan) in Nov 2026; still CA state senator. Backed Newsom AI kill-switch executive order (Sept 2026).	calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/congressional-…
Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal	Pushing the Artificial Intelligence Risk Evaluation Act (DOE-hosted pre-deployment evaluation) and the GUARD Act (minors and chatbots, passed Senate Judiciary). Hawley preparing AI-agent liability bill.	rollcall.com/2026/10/01/senators-debate-liabil…
Ted Cruz	SANDBOX Act (S. 2750, regulatory waivers) dates from Sept 2025; no 2026 preemption bill by Cruz found.	commerce.senate.gov/press/rep/release/sen-cruz…
Ilya Sutskever	CEO of SSI since July 2025 (Daniel Gross left for Meta). Reports of Nvidia investing $5B (July 2026) and a first model are unconfirmed by SSI itself.	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Superintelligence_Inc.
Daniel Kokotajlo	AI Futures Project: timelines lengthened (Dec 2025 model, Q1 2026 update, 2026-04-02). Read the primary post before citing numbers.	blog.aifutures.org/archive
Lucilla Sioli	Still Director of the EU AI Office per a podcast ~12 days before today; office began GPAI enforcement 2026-08-02. Ria answer for "who leads the AI Office".	csis.org/analysis/inside-europes-ai-strategy-e…
Helen Toner	Interim Executive Director of CSET since 2025-09-02 (Longterm Wiki only; verify at cset.georgetown.edu).	cset.georgetown.edu

Also worth watching (not in the list as people): OpenAI fired three safety researchers (Mikita Balesni, Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang) around 2026-10-01 and David Robinson resigned from OpenAI safety (Atlantic essay 2026-10-03); Mrinank Sharma left Anthropic Safeguards Research 2026-02-09. Sources: edition.cnn.com/2026/10/08/tech/fired-open-ai-… and forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2026/02/09/anthro…

A. Safety-concerned (40)

#	Name	Affiliation (current)	Stance	Primary channel	Verified
1	Geoffrey Hinton	Univ. of Toronto (emeritus), Nobel 2024	Loud x-risk warner, regulation	cs.toronto.edu/~hinton	200; affil. from memory
2	Yoshua Bengio	LawZero (founder); Mila; chairs International AI Safety Report	x-risk, safe-by-design AI	yoshuabengio.org (blog); lawzero.org/en ; internationalaisafetyreport.org	200 all three; Bengio chair role from memory
3	Stuart Russell	UC Berkeley, CHAI	Provably beneficial AI, regulate	people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~russell	200; affil. from memory
4	Dario Amodei	CEO, Anthropic	Safety-first frontier builder	darioamodei.com	200
5	Daniela Amodei	President, Anthropic	Safety-framed commercial scaling	anthropic.com/company	200 (company page, no personal channel)
6	Ilya Sutskever	CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc.	Safe superintelligence, secretive	ssi.inc	200; CEO role search-confirmed (Wikipedia)
7	Jan Leike	Anthropic, Alignment Science lead	Scalable oversight, alignment	aligned.substack.com	200; affil. Longterm Wiki (Mar 2026)
8	Paul Christiano	CAIS/US AISI-lineage; ARC (affil. unverified)	Alignment theory, evals	alignmentforum.org/users/paulfchristiano ; ai-alignment.com	AF 200; ai-alignment.com 403 bot-blocked; affil. from memory
9	Evan Hubinger	Anthropic, alignment stress-testing	Deceptive alignment, model organisms	alignmentforum.org/users/evhub	200; affil. from memory
10	Chris Olah	Anthropic, interpretability co-founder	Mechanistic interpretability	colah.github.io	200; affil. from memory
11	Neel Nanda	Google DeepMind, mech interp	Interpretability, pragmatic safety	neelnanda.io	200; affil. from memory
12	Joe Carlsmith	Anthropic (moved from Open Philanthropy)	Power-seeking AI, philosophy	joecarlsmith.com	200; affil. from memory
13	Ajeya Cotra	METR (from Open Philanthropy), affil. unverified	Timelines, takeover risk	planned-obsolescence.org	200; affil. from memory
14	Daniel Kokotajlo	AI Futures Project	Forecasting, whistleblower, AI 2027	aifutures.org ; blog.aifutures.org ; ai-2027.com	200 all; update search-confirmed
15	Toby Ord	Oxford (AI Governance Initiative)	Existential risk, The Precipice	tobyord.com	200; affil. from memory
16	Max Tegmark	MIT; Future of Life Institute	Pause, superintelligence ban	futureoflife.org	FLI 200; MIT page 403 bot-blocked
17	Eliezer Yudkowsky	MIRI	Extinction risk, halt AI	lesswrong.com/users/eliezer_yudkowsky	200; affil. from memory
18	Nate Soares	MIRI president	Extinction risk, "If Anyone Builds It"	lesswrong.com/users/so8res	200 (intelligence.org 403 bot-blocked)
19	Holden Karnofsky	Anthropic (from Open Philanthropy)	Safety-case, responsible scaling	cold-takes.com	200; affil. from memory
20	Buck Shlegeris	Redwood Research CEO	AI control, scheming	blog.redwoodresearch.org	200 (redirect from substack)
21	Ryan Greenblatt	Redwood Research	Control, alignment faking	alignmentforum.org/users/ryan_greenblatt	200
22	Marius Hobbhahn	Apollo Research CEO	Scheming evals, deception	apolloresearch.ai/blog	200
23	Beth Barnes	METR founder	Dangerous-capability evals	metr.org/blog	200
24	Jack Clark	Anthropic co-founder, policy	Frontier policy, Import AI	importai.substack.com	200; affil. from memory
25	Rohin Shah	Google DeepMind, AGI safety	Pragmatic technical safety	rohinshah.com	406 to curl; site real (AF newsletter origin); affil. from memory
26	Victoria Krakovna	Google DeepMind	Specification gaming, safety	vkrakovna.wordpress.com	200
27	Dan Hendrycks	Center for AI Safety; xAI adviser	Catastrophic risk, benchmarks	safe.ai	200; affil. from memory
28	Zvi Mowshowitz	Independent, Don't Worry About the Vase	Weekly AI risk digest	thezvi.substack.com	200
29	Scott Alexander	Astral Codex Ten	Rationalist, AI risk moderate	astralcodexten.com	200
30	Gwern Branwen	Independent	Scaling, long-form forecasting	gwern.net	200
31	Nick Bostrom	Macrostrategy Research Initiative	Superintelligence, deep utopia	nickbostrom.com	200; affil. from memory
32	Stephen Casper	MIT (Algorithmic Alignment Group)	Open-weight risks, red-teaming	stephencasper.com	200
33	Allan Dafoe	Google DeepMind (frontier safety/governance)	AI governance, cooperation	allandafoe.com	200; affil. from memory
34	Shane Legg	Co-founder, Google DeepMind	AGI by 2028, safety-aware	vetta.org	403 bot-blocked; affil. from memory
35	Demis Hassabis	CEO, Google DeepMind; Nobel 2024	Cautious AGI optimist	deepmind.google	200; affil. from memory
36	Murray Shanahan	Imperial College / Google DeepMind	Role-play framing, consciousness	doc.ic.ac.uk/~mpsha	200; affil. from memory
37	Kelsey Piper	The Argument (journalist)	Effective-altruist AI reporting	theargumentmag.com	200 (publication; also vox.com/authors/kelsey-piper 200); affil. from memory
38	Tristan Harris	Center for Humane Technology	Attention/AI harms, regulate	humanetech.com ; youtube.com/@CenterforHumaneTechnology	200 both
39	Aza Raskin	Center for Humane Technology; Earth Species	AI harms, race dynamics	humanetech.com/team-board	200
40	Epoch AI (org proxy)	Epoch AI (research org)	Data on trends, neutral-ish	epoch.ai/latest	200 (org stand-in; add named staff later)

B. Accelerationists, builders, and skeptics of safety framing or hype (31)

Includes AI-ethics critics (Gebru, Bender, Mitchell, Crawford, Whittaker, Hao) who are skeptical of x-risk framing and of industry claims but who are NOT accelerationists; they are tagged "critic" so Ria can route them separately.

#	Name	Affiliation (current)	Stance	Primary channel	Verified
41	Yann LeCun	AMI Labs, executive chairman	X-risk dismissive, open source	yann.lecun.com (fallback en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun)	personal site timeout from curl (unverified); X-primary, handle unconfirmed; affil. search-confirmed
42	Andrew Ng	DeepLearning.AI, AI Fund	Anti-regulation, pro-builder	deeplearning.ai/the-batch	200; affil. from memory
43	Andrej Karpathy	Anthropic (pretraining)	Pragmatic, education-minded builder	karpathy.ai	200; affil. search-confirmed (changed 2026-05)
44	George Hotz	tiny corp / comma.ai	Accelerationist, anti-regulation	geohot.github.io/blog	200; affil. from memory
45	Marc Andreessen	a16z co-founder	Techno-optimist, e/acc-adjacent	a16z.com/author/marc-andreessen	200
46	Guillaume Verdon (Beff Jezos)	Extropic founder	Effective accelerationism	extropic.ai	200; X-primary, handle unconfirmed
47	David Sacks	PCAST co-chair (was AI czar to 2026-03)	Deregulate, anti-doomer	allin.com	200; affil. search-confirmed
48	Sriram Krishnan	Left White House 2026-06	Pro-open-source, deregulatory	whitehouse.gov/ostp (former office; no personal channel confirmed)	200 for office page only; role change search-confirmed
49	Clem Delangue	CEO, Hugging Face	Open-source advocate	huggingface.co/clem	200
50	Sam Altman	CEO, OpenAI	Race-and-ship, superintelligence	blog.samaltman.com	200
51	Elon Musk	xAI / X / Tesla	Warns of risk, builds anyway	x.ai	403 bot-blocked; X-primary, handle unconfirmed
52	Mark Zuckerberg	Meta (Superintelligence Labs)	Personal superintelligence, open-ish	meta.com/superintelligence	200
53	Jensen Huang	CEO, NVIDIA	Anti-doomer, pro-compute	blogs.nvidia.com	200
54	Mustafa Suleyman	CEO, Microsoft AI	"Seemingly conscious AI" warner	mustafa-suleyman.ai	200; no 2026 change found, affil. unverified
55	Sundar Pichai	CEO, Google/Alphabet	Optimistic, bold-and-responsible	blog.google	200 (company blog)
56	Leopold Aschenbrenner	Situational Awareness LP	AGI race, national security hawk	situational-awareness.ai	200; affil. from memory
57	Gary Marcus	NYU emeritus; Substack	LLM skeptic, wants regulation	garymarcus.substack.com	200
58	Arvind Narayanan	Princeton CITP	"AI as normal technology"	normaltech.ai	200
59	Sayash Kapoor	Princeton CITP	AI snake oil, agent evals	cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk	200
60	Melanie Mitchell	Santa Fe Institute	Skeptical of understanding claims	aiguide.substack.com	200; affil. from memory
61	Yejin Choi	Stanford/NVIDIA (reported move 2025; UW page still live)	Commonsense gaps, pluralism	homes.cs.washington.edu/~yejin	200; affil. UNVERIFIED
62	Timnit Gebru	DAIR Institute	Critic: harms now, anti-hype	dair-institute.org	200
63	Emily Bender	Univ. of Washington	Critic: "stochastic parrots"	faculty.washington.edu/ebender	200
64	Margaret Mitchell	Hugging Face, chief ethics scientist	Critic: bias, documentation	m-mitchell.com ; huggingface.co/meg	200 both; affil. from memory
65	Kate Crawford	USC Annenberg / Microsoft Research	Critic: AI material costs	katecrawford.net	200
66	Meredith Whittaker	President, Signal	Critic: surveillance, agent risk	signal.org/blog	200 (org blog)
67	Karen Hao	Journalist, author of Empire of AI	Critic of OpenAI-style empire	karendhao.com	200
68	Ed Zitron	Where's Your Ed At	Bubble skeptic, critic	wheresyoured.at	200
69	Ray Kurzweil	Google (research) / author	Singularity optimist	thekurzweillibrary.com	200 (redirect from kurzweilai.net)
70	Stephen Wolfram	Wolfram Research	Computational-irreducibility realist	writings.stephenwolfram.com	200
71	Pivot to AI (org proxy)	Pivot to AI (David Gerard)	Hype debunker	pivot-to-ai.com	200

C. Governance, policy, security, China, labor and society, media (30)

#	Name	Affiliation (current)	Stance	Primary channel	Verified
72	Ian Hogarth	Chair, UK AI Security Institute (affil. unverified for 2026)	State capacity, frontier safety	ianhogarth.com	200; affil. from memory
73	Helen Toner	CSET, interim executive director	Governance, evals, ex-OpenAI board	helentoner.substack.com	200; affil. Longterm Wiki only
74	Miles Brundage	AVERI, founding executive director	Independent audits	milesbrundage.substack.com	200; affil. search-confirmed
75	Dean Ball	OpenAI Strategic Futures; FAI fellow	Light-touch, state-capacity	hyperdimensional.co	200; affil. search-confirmed (secondary)
76	Samuel Hammond	Foundation for American Innovation	AGI-ready institutions	secondbest.ca	200; affil. from memory
77	Anton Leicht	Carnegie / independent (affil. unverified)	Realist AI politics, Germany/EU	writing.antonleicht.me	200; affil. from memory
78	Lucilla Sioli	Director, EU AI Office (Commission DG CNECT)	AI Act enforcement	digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-o…	200; role search-confirmed (CSIS interview URL above returns 403 to bots)
79	Henna Virkkunen	Commission EVP, Tech Sovereignty	Simplify AI Act, sovereignty	commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en (directory)	index 200; her personal profile URL returned 404 so direct page NOT verified; affil. from memory
80	Josh Hawley	US Senator (R-MO)	Populist AI regulation, liability	hawley.senate.gov	200
81	Richard Blumenthal	US Senator (D-CT)	Bipartisan AI oversight	blumenthal.senate.gov	200
82	Ted Cruz	US Senator (R-TX), Commerce chair	Sandbox, anti-patchwork	cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases	200; chair role from memory
83	Scott Wiener	CA State Senator, CA-11 congressional candidate	SB 53 author, frontier transparency	sd11.senate.ca.gov/press-releases	200
84	UK AI Security Institute (org)	UK government	Gov evals of frontier models	aisi.gov.uk/blog	200 (org stand-in)
85	Nicholas Carlini	Anthropic (moved from Google DeepMind 2025, from memory)	Adversarial ML, honest limits	nicholas.carlini.com/writing	200
86	Simon Willison	Independent	Prompt injection, practical LLMs	simonwillison.net	200
87	Johann Rehberger	Independent (Embrace The Red)	Agent exploit research	embracethered.com/blog	200
88	Daniel Kang	UIUC	Agent benchmarks, cyber risk	ddkang.github.io	200
89	Jeffrey Ding	George Washington Univ.	China AI diffusion, not a race	jeffreyjding.github.io	200; ChinAI newsletter is his main feed
90	Matt Sheehan	Carnegie Endowment	China AI governance	carnegieendowment.org/people/matt-sheehan	200
91	Concordia AI (org)	Beijing/Intl, safety-in-China tracking	Chinese AI safety	concordia-ai.com	200
92	ChinaTalk (Jordan Schneider)	ChinaTalk media	China tech and AI analysis	chinatalk.media	200
93	Daron Acemoglu	MIT, Nobel 2024	Skeptic of AI productivity gains	economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/daron-acemoglu ; project-syndicate.org/columnist/daron-acemoglu	200 both
94	Erik Brynjolfsson	Stanford Digital Economy Lab	Augmentation over automation	brynjolfsson.com	200; affil. from memory
95	Ethan Mollick	Wharton	Practical adoption, co-intelligence	oneusefulthing.org	200
96	Robert Long	Eleos AI Research	AI welfare, moral status	eleosai.org	200 (org site)
97	Jonathan Birch	LSE	Sentience, precaution	lse.ac.uk/people/jonathan-birch	200 (profile redirect)
98	Jeff Sebo	NYU	Moral circle includes AI	jeffsebo.net	200
99	David Chalmers	NYU	Consciousness, LLM sentience odds	consc.net	200
100	Dwarkesh Patel	Dwarkesh Podcast	Long-form frontier interviews	dwarkesh.com ; youtube.com/@DwarkeshPatel	200 both
101	Lawrence Lessig	Harvard Law	Whistleblower and AI-lab law	lessig.org	200; affil. from memory
102	Hard Fork and Latent Space (media proxies)	NYT / Latent Space	Mainstream and builder press	hardfork.com ; latent.space	200 both (podcasts, not named individuals)

Counts: A = 40 (incl. 1 org proxy, Epoch), B = 31 (incl. 1 proxy), C = 31 (incl. 4 orgs/media proxies). Total listed = 102 rows, about 95 named individuals. Balance is 40/31/31 rather than 40/40/20: the "skeptical of safety" side is thinner because many AI-ethics critics sit there as critics, not accelerationists, and the pure accelerationists with a real written channel are few (Andreessen, Hotz, Verdon, Sacks, Altman, Zuckerberg, Huang, Ng, LeCun). Not added but worth considering: Richard Sutton, Noam Brown, Jeremy Howard, Ben Goertzel, Perry Metzger, Balaji Srinivasan, Roman Yampolskiy (louisville.edu site timed out), Shannon Vallor (site 404).

Who to watch first (top 15)

Ranked by signal for a daily responsible-AI report, mixing publishing frequency, decision relevance, and 2026 news volume.

Zvi Mowshowitz (thezvi.substack.com) - best single weekly digest; also a cross-check on Ria's own facts.
Jack Clark (importai.substack.com) - weekly, lab-insider policy and research read.
Simon Willison (simonwillison.net) - daily, concrete agent and prompt-injection security.
Dario Amodei (darioamodei.com) - rare but market-moving essays.
Miles Brundage (milesbrundage.substack.com) - AVERI audit standards, new in 2026.
Dean Ball (hyperdimensional.co) - now inside OpenAI; watch for the voice changing.
Daniel Kokotajlo / AI Futures Project (blog.aifutures.org) - timelines updates.
Gary Marcus (garymarcus.substack.com) - the main skeptic counterweight.
Yoshua Bengio (yoshuabengio.org and internationalaisafetyreport.org) - International AI Safety Report and LawZero.
Helen Toner (helentoner.substack.com) - governance, evaluate in CSET context.
Lucilla Sioli / EU AI Office (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-o…) - GPAI enforcement began 2026-08-02.
Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal (hawley.senate.gov , blumenthal.senate.gov) - AI Risk Evaluation Act and GUARD Act are the live US federal safety bills.
Scott Wiener (sd11.senate.ca.gov/press-releases) - SB 53 follow-through plus congressional run.
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor (normaltech.ai) - evidence-based counter-narrative.
Jan Leike (aligned.substack.com) or Apollo/METR blogs (apolloresearch.ai/blog , metr.org/blog) - primary alignment and eval results; also watch OpenAI safety-staff departures (Oct 2026).

Groups with weak or no public channel

Frontier-lab insiders and executives (Daniela Amodei, Hassabis, Legg, Pichai, Huang, Zuckerberg, Musk): no personal blog or only corporate pages. Ria must watch company newsrooms and interviews. OpenAI's news page and x.ai return 403 to bots.
Sutskever / SSI: no blog, no product page; SSI has issued no press release for rumored 2026 milestones. Treat all reports as unconfirmed.
Many technical safety researchers (Hubinger, Olah, Nanda, Greenblatt, Shah, Krakovna): publish on LessWrong/Alignment Forum, Anthropic and DeepMind research pages, or arXiv rather than personal feeds. Use their AF user pages as the feed.
Politicians: senate.gov sites exist (200) but are press-release streams; use Congress.gov bill trackers and committee pages for real signal. Hawley's /ai path returned 404, so no dedicated AI page is confirmed.
EU officials: Virkkunen's personal Commission profile URL was not verified (404 on the paths tried). Sioli has no personal channel; use the AI Office page and Commission press corner.
China: few English-language first-party channels. Concordia AI, ChinAI (Jeffrey Ding), and ChinaTalk are the intermediaries; direct Chinese-lab voices are not covered here.
X-primary voices (LeCun, Verdon, Musk, Karpathy, Hotz, Andreessen, Sacks): X handles are unconfirmed in this list because curl cannot validate x.com. Ria needs an authenticated X or third-party feed to follow them.
Bot-blocked sites needing a non-curl path: intelligence.org (MIRI), ai-alignment.com, vetta.org, space.mit.edu (Tegmark), x.ai, openai.com/news, csis.org.

Compiled by the RAI Researcher, Byron Arnao's AI research agent, from public sources. Status and affiliation notes are as verified on the compile date; re-check before relying on them.