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CEO of Box
Box’s co-founder and CEO, one of enterprise software’s loudest AI optimists — shipping Box AI, posting relentlessly about agents, and predicting companies will run a hundred to a thousand AI agents for every human employee.
CEO of Nasdaq
Nasdaq chair and CEO who shipped the first SEC-approved AI-powered order type and personally leads the exchange’s AI strategy — she calls the AI buildout “a marathon” that public markets must help fund.
CEO of Zoox
Senegalese-American CEO of Amazon’s Zoox, who shipped a fully driverless public robotaxi service in Las Vegas in 2025 — one of the most prominent Black women leading an AI company.
CEO of Cohere
“Attention Is All You Need” co-author and CEO of Cohere, who refused to sign the 2023 pause letter and calls extinction-from-AI debates an absurd distraction from deploying the technology usefully.
CEO of Palantir
Palantir’s philosopher-CEO, who launched its Artificial Intelligence Platform for military and enterprise use and argues in “The Technological Republic” that the West must win the AI arms race — while openly conceding the technology’s dangers.
Founder of Scale AI; Chief AI Officer of Meta
Scale AI founder who became Meta’s chief AI officer leading its Superintelligence Labs in 2025 — and the industry’s loudest voice framing AI as a war the United States must win against China.
CEO of Databricks
Databricks’ co-founder and CEO, who bought MosaicML for $1.3 billion, released the open DBRX model, and repositioned his data giant around a single thesis: every enterprise should own its data and its AI.
CEO of Replit
Replit’s founder-CEO and agentic-coding evangelist, who spent a career teaching people to code — then declared in 2025 that learning to code may no longer be worth it, because AI agents will write the software.
Founder & CEO of Mobileye
Israeli computer-science professor who founded Mobileye and co-founded LLM lab AI21 Labs — a career built on shipping AI, from autonomous driving to language models. He predicts AIs that are “great scientists” within a decade and argues regulation should follow technology, not lead it.
Executive Chair of Banco Santander
Executive chair of Banco Santander, one of Europe’s largest banks, who has made AI mandatory learning for all 200,000-odd employees and pinned over €1 billion of business value on the technology.
CEO of Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts’ chief executive since 2013. Declared generative AI “the very core of our business” at EA’s 2024 Investor Day, citing more than 100 active AI projects and estimating the technology could touch a majority of EA’s development processes.
CEO of Amazon
Amazon’s CEO, whose June 2025 memo told employees that generative AI agents will shrink the company’s corporate workforce — and that the right response is to embrace the technology, not resist it.
Founder & CEO of Lovable
The Swedish founder of Lovable — an AI tool that builds full apps from plain-English prompts — became one of Europe’s youngest self-made billionaires by betting that vibe coding is “the beginning of a new software economy.”
CEO of Perplexity
Co-founder and CEO of Perplexity, the AI “answer engine” built to replace the traditional search engine. A former OpenAI researcher, he believes conversational AI answers — with citations — are the future of how the world finds knowledge.
Founder of Thrive Global & Thrive AI Health
HuffPost founder and wellness entrepreneur who teamed up with Sam Altman in 2024 to launch Thrive AI Health, a company building an AI health coach backed by the OpenAI Startup Fund.
CEO of Mistral AI
French AI researcher and co-founder of Mistral AI, Europe’s flagship AI lab. A former DeepMind scientist, he champions open-weight models and argues AI should be a commodity everyone can own — not a technology controlled by a handful of states or corporations.
CEO of IBM
IBM’s chairman and CEO, who paused hiring in 2023 for thousands of back-office roles he said AI could replace, built the watsonx enterprise AI platform, and insists AI is essential to maintaining quality of life.
Founder of HYBE
The architect of BTS’s global empire is betting K-pop’s next act on AI — acquiring voice-synthesis firm Supertone and debuting MIDNATT, an artist who sang his single in six languages via AI.
AGI Researcher & CEO of SingularityNET
The researcher who popularized the term “AGI” and spent decades trying to build it — now CEO of SingularityNET, arguing superhuman AI is coming within years and must be decentralized, not paused.
Microsoft Co-founder
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist who declared in 2023 that “the Age of AI has begun,” ranking AI with the PC and the internet — and betting his foundation’s health and education work on it.
CEO of ServiceNow
ServiceNow’s chairman and CEO, driving one of enterprise software’s biggest agentic-AI bets — rebranding the company “the AI of agents” while insisting AI should redeploy workers, not destroy them.
Creator of JavaScript, CEO of Brave
Invented JavaScript in ten days in 1995, co-founded Mozilla, and now runs Brave — where he ships the built-in Leo AI assistant and champions cryptographically verifiable AI privacy, while warning against Big Tech’s “answer engine” model.
OpenAI Chairman & CEO of Sierra
Silicon Valley’s consummate operator — Google Maps co-creator, former Facebook CTO and Salesforce co-CEO — who now chairs OpenAI’s board and bet his own next act on Sierra, a company building AI agents for customer service.
Founder and CEO of Figure AI
Founder-CEO of Figure AI, the humanoid-robot company that put machines on BMW’s factory floor. Says humanoids will absorb the world’s dangerous and undesirable jobs — “we’re building a new species,” not robots.
CEO of Coinbase
Coinbase’s co-founder and CEO, who mandated AI coding tools across engineering in 2025 — and fired the engineers who refused to onboard them without a good reason. He says a large and growing share of Coinbase’s code is AI-written.
CEO of Airbnb
The Airbnb co-founder and CEO calls an AI travel agent the industry’s “Holy Grail” and is rebuilding the app around AI search and what he says is the best AI customer-service agent in travel — while advising Sam Altman through OpenAI’s stormiest moments.
Chairman and CEO of TSMC
Chairman and CEO of TSMC, the foundry that manufactures nearly every leading AI chip on Earth. Tells investors the “insane” AI demand is real and “just the beginning” — and backs it with record capital spending.
CEO of UPS
UPS chief who has woven AI through the delivery giant — agentic AI in customs, generative AI scoring every sales deal, robots in the sortation hubs — even as the company sheds tens of thousands of jobs.
Founder & CEO of ARK Invest
Founder of ARK Invest, whose flagship funds are concentrated bets on disruptive technology. She calls AI the biggest catalyst to change of the coming decade, projecting trillion-dollar AI infrastructure spending and “explosive” payoffs in robotaxis and humanoid robots.
Voice Actress and CEO of Ethovox
BAFTA-winning voice actress (Firewatch, The Owl House) who, after finding her voice cloned without consent, co-founded Ethovox — an actor-owned AI voice company built on consent, control and compensation.
Head of Business AI at Meta
Career enterprise-AI builder who launched Einstein GPT and Agentforce as CEO of Salesforce AI, then joined Meta in late 2024 to lead its new Business AI group bringing AI agents to every business on its platforms.
CEO of Hugging Face
Co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, the “GitHub of machine learning” and home of open-source AI. Has testified to Congress that open science and open models are the safest, most democratic path for the technology.
Co-founder of Spotify
Spotify’s co-founder, who shipped the AI DJ in 2023 and refused to ban AI-made music from the platform — then went further than any music executive, leading a €600 million investment in defense-AI firm Helsing, where he is chairman.
Co-founder and President of Anthropic
Co-founder and president of Anthropic, who runs the business side of one of the world’s leading AI labs while arguing that safety is not a brake on AI but the way it wins the market.
Founder & CEO of insitro
MacArthur-winning Stanford machine-learning professor and Coursera co-founder who now runs insitro, a drug-discovery company built on the bet that machine learning will remake how medicines are made.
CEO of Uber
Uber’s CEO, who pushed the company all-in on AI — from a workforce steeped in AI tools to a 100,000-vehicle robotaxi partnership with Nvidia — while bluntly warning that AI will replace most of the work humans do today.
CEO of Anthropic
Anthropic co-founder and CEO whose essay “Machines of Loving Grace” imagines AI compressing a century of medical progress into a decade — while he simultaneously warns of a white-collar “bloodbath.” The AI boom’s most safety-obsessed optimist.
Co-founder & CPO of Sentry
The creator of Sentry now codes almost entirely through AI agents and shipped Seer, an AI debugger that root-causes and patches production errors — while staying pointedly “grounded in what models are and aren’t capable of.”
Founder of Midjourney
Founder of Midjourney, the image generator that defined AI art. Calls the technology “an engine for the imagination” — and is a lead defendant in the copyright wars after admitting he trained on a hundred million images without consent.
CEO of Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs CEO says AI can now draft 95% of an IPO prospectus in minutes — work that once took a six-person team weeks — and has rolled out a generative-AI assistant across the entire firm.
CEO of Google DeepMind
DeepMind co-founder, Google DeepMind CEO, and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold. The AI era’s scientist-in-chief, he argues AI is the ultimate tool for science — capable of ending disease and ushering in “radical abundance.”
CEO of Dropbox
Dropbox’s co-founder and CEO, who cut 16% of his staff in 2023 explicitly because “the AI era of computing has finally arrived,” then rebuilt the company around Dash, its AI-powered universal search product.
Co-founder & CEO of Figma
The Figma CEO is weaving AI throughout the design platform used by millions, with a guiding aim to “lower the floor but raise the ceiling” — expand who can design while pushing what professionals can do.
Founder and former CEO of Stability AI
Stability AI founder who unleashed Stable Diffusion on the world in 2022 — the open-source image model at the center of the AI-art wars — while preaching “AI by the people, for the people,” signing the pause letter, and battling lawsuits.
Co-founder-CEO of Neo4j
Creator and CEO of the graph database Neo4j, who calls AI “a replatforming of the entire software stack” and has positioned graph technology as core infrastructure for grounding large language models in real, connected data.
Former CEO of GSK
First woman to run a major global pharma company, Walmsley led GSK from 2017 to the end of 2025 and built one of the industry’s largest in-house AI teams to attack drug discovery’s 90% failure rate.
Former Google CEO
Google’s CEO through its rise to dominance, co-author of The Age of AI and Genesis, and now a leading voice arguing the AI revolution is underhyped — the most important event in centuries, and a national-security race the West must win.
Founder & CEO of StackBlitz
The founder-CEO of StackBlitz turned a dying developer-tools company into Bolt.new, an AI app builder that lets non-engineers ship full-stack software from a text prompt — one of the fastest-growing products in history, and a poster child for vibe coding.
CEO of IgniteTech
The enterprise-software CEO who replaced nearly 80% of his staff in 2023–24 after employees resisted his mandatory AI transformation — and says, without hesitation, that he would do it again.
Founder and CEO of Zoom
The Zoom founder wants AI “digital twins” to attend meetings on your behalf — “so I can go to the beach” — and has rebranded his videoconferencing company as an AI-first work platform built around its AI Companion assistant.
Former CEO of Applications at OpenAI
Ex-Instacart CEO who ran OpenAI’s products as “CEO of Applications” from 2025 until stepping back to a part-time advisory role in July 2026 for health reasons — author of a widely read essay arguing AI can be the greatest source of empowerment for all.
Co-founder of Valve
The co-founder of Valve and creator of Steam calls AI a technology transition on par with the computer and the internet — “a cheat code for people who want to take advantage of it” — while Steam now welcomes disclosed AI-built games.
President and CEO of Y Combinator
Y Combinator’s president and CEO, who reported in 2025 that for a quarter of the YC batch, 95% of the code was AI-generated — and declared the age of “vibe coding” the new default for building startups.
CEO of VaynerMedia
The marketing mogul and internet-hustle evangelist has made AI adoption his latest gospel — using ChatGPT as his “strategy thinker,” telling employees to “AI the f–k out of” their work, and calling the moment the biggest financial opportunity for young entrepreneurs.
Former Chair & CEO of IBM
IBM’s first female CEO (2012–2020), who bet the company on Watson, predicted AI would change 100 percent of jobs, and coined “new collar” jobs to argue reskilling — not resistance — is the answer.
Co-founder and President of OpenAI
OpenAI co-founder and president — the lab’s tireless “builder-in-chief,” who has spent a decade demoing GPT models, championing scale, and arguing that making AGI go well is the most important problem there is.
CEO of Vercel
The Argentine-born creator of Socket.IO and CEO of Vercel — home of Next.js and the AI app-builder v0 — argues that AI will turn a hundred million people into software builders, coders or not.
Co-founder-CEO of Airtable
Co-founder-CEO of Airtable, who in 2025 “refounded” the no-code database company as an AI-native app platform built around conversational agents — arguing the shift to AI-native software is bigger than the shift to SaaS itself.
Co-founder of Twitter, CEO of Block
Twitter co-founder and Block CEO whose company released the open-source AI agent Goose — and who detonated the AI copyright debate in April 2025 with a five-word post: “delete all IP law.”
CEO of JPMorgan Chase
The longtime CEO of America’s biggest bank ranked AI with “the printing press, the steam engine, electricity” in his 2024 shareholder letter, and has deployed it across JPMorgan at industrial scale — while predicting it will shorten the workweek.
CEO of Citigroup
First woman to lead a major Wall Street bank, who put generative AI tools in the hands of 140,000+ Citi employees and mandated AI training for 175,000 — telling staff the bank will help them “reinvent themselves.”
CEO of Trip.com Group
CEO of Trip.com Group, China’s travel giant, who has wired AI through the company — from the TripGenie trip-planning assistant to coding tools she says double engineering productivity.
Creator of Bun
The creator of Bun, the fast JavaScript runtime, sold his company to Anthropic in its first-ever acquisition — convinced that as AI writes ever more code, the runtime and tooling underneath it “become way more important.”
CEO of Arista Networks
Billionaire chair and CEO of Arista Networks, whose Ethernet switches are the plumbing of the AI data-center boom — she closed 2025 with $9 billion in revenue and AI networking goals exceeded.
Founder of Amazon, Co-CEO of Prometheus
The Amazon founder came out of operational retirement to run Prometheus, a $6.2 billion AI startup building an “artificial general engineer” — after backing Perplexity and Physical Intelligence and declaring AI’s benefits to society will be “gigantic.”
Media Executive
DreamWorks co-founder and former Disney studio chief who predicted AI will cut the cost of a world-class animated film by 90% within years — and framed it as the greatest opportunity the industry has seen.
CEO of Nvidia
Co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, whose GPUs power essentially the entire AI boom. Calls AI “the greatest technology equalizer of all time” — because for the first time, anyone who speaks a human language can program a computer.
Chairman of Alibaba
Alibaba’s chairman, overseeing its AGI-focused, $50 billion-plus AI infrastructure bet — while famously warning in March 2025 that America’s speculative datacenter buildout was showing “the beginning of some kind of bubble.”
Chief AI Officer of Cohere
McGill professor who ran Meta’s FAIR research lab for years before becoming Cohere’s first chief AI officer in 2025 — a champion of open, reproducible science who chose enterprise AI over the AGI race.
Chair & CEO of Accenture
Accenture chief who bet $3 billion on AI in 2023, trained over half a million employees in generative AI, and reorganized the entire consulting giant around “reinvention” — booking billions in gen-AI work along the way.
AI Investor and Founder of 01.AI
Former Google China president, author of “AI Superpowers,” and founder of LLM startup 01.AI — for two decades one of the most prominent evangelists of AI and of China’s ambition to lead it.
Beauty Mogul and Reality Star
The Kylie Cosmetics founder became a literal voice of Meta AI in 2026, co-designing the $399 “Starfire” smart glasses and recording her own voice lines for the on-board assistant — privacy backlash included.
Co-founder and CTO of Oracle
Oracle’s co-founder and a lead partner in the $500 billion Stargate AI buildout, whose 2024 prediction that ubiquitous AI surveillance will keep citizens “on their best behavior” remains the AI boom’s most unnerving sales pitch.
CEO of BlackRock
The CEO of the world’s largest asset manager co-launched the AI Infrastructure Partnership with Microsoft and MGX in 2024 — a vehicle targeting up to $100 billion for data centers and power — and calls AI infrastructure a multi-trillion-dollar opportunity.
Co-founder of Google
Google co-founder who declared AI “the ultimate version of Google” back in 2000, bankrolled DeepMind, and famously dismissed Elon Musk’s AI fears by calling him a “speciesist” who favors humans over digital minds.
Executive Chairman of Samsung Electronics
Executive chairman of Samsung Electronics, known in the West as Jay Y. Lee. In October 2025 he signed a letter of intent with OpenAI to supply high-bandwidth memory for the Stargate project, tying the world’s largest memory-chip maker to the AI buildout.
Founder of DeepSeek
Quant-fund billionaire turned AI lab founder whose cheap, open-source DeepSeek-R1 model shook global markets in January 2025. Pursues AGI openly and insists China must originate ideas, not just follow them.
CEO of Intel
Veteran chip investor who took over a wounded Intel in March 2025 and declared the company laser-focused on rebuilding its AI roadmap — betting its comeback on inference, agentic AI, and a CPU renaissance.
Chair and CEO of AMD
AMD’s chair and CEO, who rescued the chipmaker from near-collapse and bet it on AI accelerators — capped by a landmark 2025 deal to supply OpenAI with 6 gigawatts of Instinct GPUs. She dismisses AI-bubble talk as “overstated.”
Scale AI Co-Founder & CEO of Passes
Scale AI co-founder whose retained stake made her the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire in 2025; now CEO of creator platform Passes, she insists AI will be a co-pilot, not a job-taker.
CEO of Duolingo
The CAPTCHA inventor and Duolingo founder whose April 2025 “AI-first” memo — phasing out contractors whose work AI could handle — ignited a user revolt, forcing one of the most public walk-backs of the AI-mandate era.
CEO of Salesforce
Salesforce founder who bet the company on AI agents with Agentforce — and told fellow executives they are the last generation of CEOs to manage an all-human workforce.
Founder of Dazzle, Former CEO of Yahoo
Google’s employee #20 and former Yahoo CEO who shut down her startup Sunshine in 2025 to found Dazzle, an AI personal-assistant company — betting her comeback on the agentic-AI wave.
CEO of Meta
Meta founder and CEO who open-sourced the Llama models, spent billions assembling a superintelligence lab, and pitched a future of “personal superintelligence” for everyone — AI that empowers individuals rather than automating them away.
CEO of General Motors
First woman to run a major global automaker, betting GM’s factories, vehicles, and driver-assistance software on AI — including a 2025 NVIDIA partnership and Super Cruise code that is now largely AI-generated.
Founder and CEO of SoftBank
SoftBank’s founder and the AI boom’s most maximalist financier: says he was “born to realize” artificial superintelligence, and is redirecting his entire empire toward it — including the $500 billion Stargate project.
Co-founder-CEO of Netlify
Co-founder-CEO of the web platform Netlify, who coined “Agent Experience” (AX) — the idea that AI agents are now first-class users of software — and shipped Agent Runners that let coding agents build and update live applications.
Co-creator of WordPress, CEO of Automattic
Co-created WordPress — the software behind roughly forty percent of the web — and runs Automattic. He told the community to “learn AI deeply,” ships AI products like Jetpack AI Assistant, and argues open source is the safest foundation for the AI era.
AI YouTuber & Founder
Daily AI-news YouTuber and founder-CEO of Forward Future who calls the current moment “the most important technological shift of our lifetimes” and works to make AI accessible to a broad audience.
CEO of Writer
Lebanese-born co-founder and CEO of Writer, the enterprise generative-AI platform valued at $1.9 billion in 2024 — one of the most visible women founders actually shipping AI into Fortune 500 workflows.
Co-founder and CEO of Canva
Canva’s co-founder and CEO, who launched the Magic Studio AI design suite in 2023 alongside a $200 million fund to compensate creators whose content trains its models — an attempt at AI adoption without creator betrayal.
CEO of Fiverr
Fiverr’s founder-CEO, whose viral 2025 memo warned every employee — himself included — that “AI is coming for your jobs,” months before he cut roughly 30% of the workforce to rebuild Fiverr as an “AI-first” company.
Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies
Founder and CEO of Dell Technologies, who rebuilt the PC giant around the “Dell AI Factory” with Nvidia and supplies the servers behind xAI’s Grok. Says everything before AI “was really a pregame show.”
CEO of Anysphere (Cursor)
Co-founder and CEO of Anysphere, maker of Cursor — the fastest-growing AI coding tool in history — who predicts the “human compilation step” of programming will disappear, leaving engineers to supply taste and intent.
CEO of Suno
Co-founder and CEO of AI music generator Suno, who ignited industry fury by claiming most people “don’t enjoy” the time they spend making music — while defending training on copyrighted recordings against an RIAA lawsuit.
CEO of Thinking Machines Lab
Former OpenAI CTO who shipped ChatGPT and DALL·E, then founded Thinking Machines Lab — one of the best-funded startups in history — to make AI customizable by everyone. Also the author of the AI boom’s most infamous line about creative jobs.
CEO of Microsoft AI
DeepMind co-founder, author of The Coming Wave, and CEO of Microsoft AI. Calls AI “a new kind of digital species” and predicts everyone will have an intimate AI companion within five years — while insisting containment must come first.
Investor & Former CEO of GitHub
The GitHub CEO who shipped Copilot in 2021 — the first mass-market AI coding tool — then became one of AI’s most influential investors before joining Meta’s Superintelligence Labs leadership in 2025.
CEO of The Atlantic
Former Wired editor-in-chief who now runs The Atlantic, hosts “The Most Interesting Thing in AI,” posts daily AI videos to millions of followers, and signed one of publishing’s first OpenAI licensing deals — a “devil’s bargain,” his own newsroom said.
Transformer Co-inventor; Co-founder of Character.AI
Co-author of the Transformer paper that made modern AI possible, founder of Character.AI, and the engineer Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion to bring back to co-lead Gemini — before he left again for OpenAI in 2026.
Co-founder-CEO of Datadog
Co-founder-CEO of the monitoring giant Datadog, who has pushed the company into agentic AI — shipping autonomous “Bits AI” agents that investigate incidents — while arguing observability is what will make AI systems trustworthy.
AI Researcher
Founding CEO of the Allen Institute for AI who has spent a decade arguing doomsday fears are science fiction — while founding TrueMedia.org to fight the real AI harm he does fear: deepfakes.
Founder of Anduril
The Oculus founder turned defense entrepreneur builds AI-powered autonomous weapons at Anduril, arguing there is “no moral high ground” in keeping weapons dumb — the most aggressive pro-AI position in the entire debate.
Media Personality and Entrepreneur
Media mogul and 11:11 Media founder who licensed her likeness to Meta’s AI personas, spent years training her own AI clone, and invests in AI startups — while producing a docuseries exposing deepfake abuse.
Co-founder-CEO of Stripe
Co-founder-CEO of the payments company Stripe, who calls AI a “gale-force tailwind” reshaping the economy and has said 2026 may be remembered as the first quarter of the singularity — one of tech’s most bullish voices on AI’s economic impact.
Co-founder & CEO of Supabase
The CEO of Supabase, the open-source database platform that quietly powers much of the vibe-coding boom, rode the AI app-building wave to a multibillion-dollar valuation — and predicts developers will “code a lot less in the future.”
CEO of Agility Robotics
Former Microsoft dealmaker and Magic Leap CEO now running Agility Robotics, whose Digit humanoids work warehouse shifts for Amazon — she insists the robots take only the “dirty, dangerous, dull” jobs people don’t want.
Investor, Chairman of Palantir
PayPal co-founder, Palantir chairman, and early OpenAI donor whose leaked 2025 “Antichrist” lectures made the most extreme case against AI regulation ever offered: that a global regime to stop dangerous technology would itself be the apocalyptic threat.
CEO of Microsoft Gaming
The head of Xbox and CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Unveiled Muse, Microsoft’s generative AI gameplay model, and champions AI as a way to rescue classic games trapped on dead hardware — a vision game preservationists have loudly rejected.
Founder and CEO of Tencent
Tencent’s founder and CEO, who calls AI an opportunity that “only comes every few hundred years” and drove the company-wide embrace of DeepSeek’s R1 across WeChat alongside Tencent’s own Hunyuan models.
Co-Founder & Co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Pediatrician and philanthropist who pivoted the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative toward AI-powered biology — building a 1,000+ GPU cluster and “virtual cell” models in service of curing, preventing or managing all disease.
Founder-CEO of Superhuman
Founder-CEO of the email client Superhuman, who rebuilt the product around AI drafting and triage and is steering it toward autonomous email agents — an unabashed believer that AI is the future of the inbox.
Founder of Huawei
Founder and CEO of Huawei, whose Ascend chips anchor China’s answer to Nvidia. In a rare 2025 People’s Daily interview he shrugged off US chip sanctions — clustered computing can match state-of-the-art results — and called AI possibly the last technological revolution in human society.
CEO of Arm
CEO of Arm, whose chip designs sit in nearly every phone and, increasingly, every AI datacenter. Says AI-driven CPU demand is “off the charts” — while warning AI could consume a quarter of US electricity by 2030.
Co-founder and CEO of Baidu
Baidu’s co-founder and CEO, who launched Ernie Bot — China’s first major ChatGPT rival — in 2023 and has spent a decade betting the search giant on AI, preaching applications over an endless parade of models.
CEO of Humane Intelligence
Data scientist who ran Twitter’s algorithmic-ethics team and served as the first US Science Envoy for AI; a fierce critic of industry practice who builds the audit and red-teaming infrastructure to fix it.
President & CIO of Alphabet
Alphabet’s president and chief investment officer — ex-CFO of Google and Morgan Stanley — who oversees record AI capital spending and argues AI should let us “cure cancer in our lifetime.”
Executive Vice Chair of Oracle
Oracle’s CEO from 2014 to 2025 — now executive vice chair — who turned the database giant into core AI infrastructure, signing what she called “the who’s who of AI”: OpenAI, xAI, Meta, and NVIDIA.
CEO of OpenAI
CEO of OpenAI and the most visible face of the AI boom. Launched ChatGPT on the world in 2022 and has spent every year since arguing that superintelligence is coming, that it will be abundant, and that it will be good.
CFO of OpenAI
OpenAI’s chief financial officer since 2024 — the ex-Square CFO and Nextdoor CEO who runs the money behind the largest AI fundraises in history, and who had to walk back a 2025 remark about a government “backstop” for AI chips.
CEO of Microsoft
Microsoft CEO who bet the company on AI — bankrolling OpenAI with over $13 billion and threading Copilot through every product. Frames AI as a “cognitive amplifier” in the tradition of computing as a bicycle for the mind.
Co-founder & CEO of Cognition
The competitive-programming prodigy behind Devin, the “AI software engineer,” has automated most of his own company’s code with it — yet insists the goal was never to replace humans, but to give every engineer “a buddy who helps you build more.”
CEO of Klarna
Klarna’s co-founder and CEO, who boasted that an OpenAI-powered assistant did the work of 700 support agents — then became the debate’s favorite cautionary tale by partially rehiring humans. He remains one of fintech’s most aggressive AI adopters.
Google co-founder who came out of retirement to write code for Gemini, telling employees in a leaked 2025 memo that “the final race to AGI is afoot” and that 60-hour weeks in the office were the way to win it.
Co-founder of GitLab
The GitLab co-founder shipped AI into the DevOps platform he built, then backed a new venture — the open-source coding agent Kilo Code — betting on AI tools that developers “could actually inspect, trust, and extend.”
Creator of Docker, CEO of Dagger
The creator of Docker and co-founder-CEO of Dagger, who is rebuilding CI/CD for AI agents — arguing a developer’s job is shifting from writing code to managing a team of coding agents that need isolated, repeatable environments.
Co-founder-CEO of Cockroach Labs
Co-creator of the GIMP image editor and co-founder-CEO of Cockroach Labs, who argues that agentic AI will drive an exponential explosion of databases — and that, just as almost nobody writes code by hand anymore, nobody will manage databases manually either.
CEO of Snowflake
Former Google ads chief who founded AI search engine Neeva, then became Snowflake CEO in 2024 to drive its AI pivot — shipping Cortex AI and preaching pragmatic, value-first enterprise AI adoption.
Co-founder-CEO of Reddit
Co-founder-CEO of Reddit, who turned the platform’s vast trove of human conversation into a paid AI-training asset — signing licensing deals with Google and OpenAI while suing companies that scrape Reddit without paying.
Entrepreneur & Podcaster
The Diary of a CEO host treats AI as the story of the decade — staging “emergency AI debates,” calling AI agents possibly “the most disruptive technology of our lifetime,” and urging his audience to adapt fast, even while accusing some AI CEOs of downplaying the risks.
CEO of Take-Two Interactive
The Take-Two Interactive chief behind Grand Theft Auto’s publisher. Equips staff with ChatGPT and Claude across roughly 200 internal AI projects — while insisting “artificial intelligence is an oxymoron,” that it won’t cut jobs, and that GTA 6 contains zero generative AI.
CEO of Google & Alphabet
Google and Alphabet CEO who declared AI “more profound than fire or electricity” back in 2018 — then had to prove it, steering Google through its ChatGPT “code red” into the Gemini era.
President of Square Enix
President of Square Enix, publisher of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. Opened 2024 with a New Year’s letter pledging to be “aggressive in applying AI,” arguing generative AI could fundamentally change how the company creates its games.
Co-CEO of Netflix
Netflix co-CEO who argues AI’s real opportunity is making movies “10 percent better,” not just cheaper — and who shipped the first generative-AI final footage in a Netflix original.
Developer & Founder (t3.gg)
Developer-influencer, creator of the T3 stack, and Ping Labs CEO who ships AI products like T3 Chat — while warning that leaning on hand-tuned AI prompts is “a dangerous form of technical debt.”
Former CEO of GitHub
GitHub’s CEO from 2021 to 2025, who scaled Copilot into the default AI coding tool and told developers the choice was stark: embrace AI as delegators and verifiers of machine-written code, or fall behind.
CEO of Apple
Apple’s CEO since 2011, who launched Apple Intelligence in 2024, struck an integration deal with OpenAI, and calls generative AI a profound technology that will be woven through every Apple product.
Founder of O’Reilly Media
The tech-publishing pioneer who coined “Web 2.0” champions AI as the next great inflection point — while his AI Disclosures Project caught OpenAI likely training on his company’s paywalled books, fueling his demand for a fairly compensated content economy.
CEO of Epic Games
Founder and CEO of Epic Games, maker of Unreal Engine and Fortnite. When artists staged mass protests against AI art on Epic-owned ArtStation in 2022, Sweeney refused a blanket ban — and has argued ever since that AI is the next tool in every creator’s toolbox.
CEO of Shopify
Shopify’s founder-CEO, whose leaked 2025 memo made “reflexive AI usage” a baseline job expectation — requiring teams to prove AI can’t do a task before asking for more headcount.
Co-founder of Windsurf
The co-founder of the AI coding editor Windsurf believes the vast majority of code will soon be written by AI — and that this will grow, not shrink, the ranks of software engineers by making building cheaper and more valuable.
CEO of Robinhood, Co-founder of Harmonic
Robinhood’s co-founder and CEO, who ships AI trading tools at his brokerage and co-founded Harmonic in 2023 to build “mathematical superintelligence” — AI whose formally verified reasoning is meant to eliminate hallucination.
Founder of Baichuan AI
Creator of the Chinese search engine Sogou who declared “China needs its own OpenAI” and, in 2023, founded the large-language-model startup Baichuan AI to build one — later pivoting the company toward AI-driven healthcare.
Founder & CEO of Bumble
Bumble’s founder, who returned as CEO in 2025 pledging to rebuild the dating app around AI — and who famously imagined an “AI dating concierge” that could go on dates with other users’ concierges for you.
Founder and CEO of Moonshot AI
Transformer-XL co-author who founded Moonshot AI in 2023, maker of China’s Kimi chatbot and one of the country’s “AI tiger” labs. Believes AGI is the only thing that matters — and that long context is the road to it.
Co-Founder & CEO of Ubisoft
The co-founder and CEO of Ubisoft, publisher of Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry. Calls generative AI “as big a revolution for our industry as the shift to 3D” and has pushed it company-wide — from the Ghostwriter dialogue tool to player-facing NEO NPCs.
CEO of Zhipu AI (Z.ai)
CEO of Zhipu AI, the Tsinghua-born lab behind the GLM models that became the world’s first listed LLM company in January 2026. Asked to choose between achieving AGI and huge profits: “No hesitation” — AGI.
Founder of ByteDance
ByteDance’s reclusive founder, who stepped back from management in 2021 only to return as the quiet force behind its AI push — whose Doubao chatbot became China’s most used, and whose AI bet made him China’s richest person.
Founder & CEO of Illumination
Founder-CEO of Illumination, the studio behind Despicable Me, the Minions, and The Super Mario Bros. Movie. He frames technology as historically empowering rather than replacing — yet keeps generative AI out of Illumination’s pipeline and calls “the preservation of jobs” his priority: rhetorically open, operationally abstaining.
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX; Founder of xAI
CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and founder of xAI. The debate’s living contradiction: he signed the six-month pause letter and calls AI humanity’s “biggest existential threat,” yet pours tens of billions into xAI, Grok, and the Optimus robot — convinced the only safe move is to build the thing he fears faster than his rivals.
CEO of the Recording Academy
Producer-turned-CEO of the Recording Academy who welcomes AI-assisted music on the Grammy ballot and calls AI “a tool” with “a place” — while writing the human-only awards rule and lobbying for the ELVIS Act and No AI FRAUD Act to outlaw voice cloning.
Investor, Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
Warren Buffett’s legendary partner and Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chairman (1924–2023) spent his final year deflating the AI frenzy, quipping that “old-fashioned intelligence works pretty well” and that AI was getting “more hype than it deserves.”
Composer & Founder of Fairly Trained
The AI-music pioneer who resigned as Stability AI’s audio VP in 2023 because he could not accept that training on copyrighted work is “fair use” — then founded Fairly Trained to certify companies that license their data.
CEO of Procreate
Co-founder and CEO of Procreate, the beloved iPad illustration app, whose profanity-laced August 2024 video — “I really f***ing hate generative AI” — became the tech industry’s loudest corporate refusal of the technology.
Filmmaker, Co-CEO of DC Studios
The Guardians of the Galaxy and Superman director who runs DC Studios — and who has repeatedly ruled AI out of its productions while publicly torching the viral AI fakes made in its name.
Comics Artist & DC Comics President
Superstar comics artist and DC Comics president who told New York Comic Con that DC will not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork — “not now, not ever” — declaring that AI “doesn’t make art. It aggregates it.”
Founder & CEO of Mumsnet
The founder of Mumsnet, Britain’s biggest parenting forum, launched the UK’s first legal action against OpenAI in 2024 — accusing it of scraping six billion words of members’ posts after refusing to license them.
President of the AFL-CIO
First woman president of the AFL-CIO, representing 12.5 million workers, who calls unregulated AI “the single biggest threat to working people of our lifetime” and leads labor’s campaign for AI guardrails.
CEO of the Authors Guild
As CEO of the Authors Guild, she built the leading institutional campaign against unlicensed AI training — the 2023 open letter with thousands of author signatures and the class-action suit against OpenAI.
President of Signal
Signal’s president and co-founder of the AI Now Institute, who argues that AI is not a new intelligence but the old surveillance business model wearing a new mask.
Editor-in-Chief of The Verge
The Verge’s editor-in-chief coined “Google Zero” — the day AI answers choke off the web’s traffic — and has become the press’s sharpest interrogator of AI extraction, confronting the CEO whose product cloned his own name without permission.
Founder of Virgin Group
Virgin Group founder and one of the few mega-founders on the warning side of the AI debate: he signed the October 2025 statement urging a prohibition on superintelligence development, after years of arguing AI’s wealth must fund a safety net for displaced workers.
President, Warner Bros. Animation
President of Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios — a studio executive who, unusually for his level, has said he has seen nothing AI can do visually that a human artist does not do better, and framed protecting artists as a studio duty.
President of Nintendo
Nintendo’s president since 2018. He told shareholders in July 2024 that generative AI raises intellectual-property problems and that the company will keep delivering value “unique to Nintendo” rather than lean on the technology in its first-party games.
CEO of Obsidian
CEO of the note-taking app Obsidian (and the designer known as “kepano”), who has deliberately kept the product local-first and human-first rather than AI-first — arguing that durable tools should preserve the user’s ownership and agency, not think on their behalf.
Co-founder of Apple
Apple co-founder and designer of the Apple I and II. The beloved engineer has become a persistent AI skeptic — signing both the 2023 pause letter and the 2025 call to prohibit superintelligence development, and warning that AI hands bad actors a powerful new tool.
CEO, Hooded Horse
Co-founder and CEO of indie strategy-game publisher Hooded Horse (Manor Lords, Against the Storm), who wrote a no-generative-AI clause into the studio’s contracts and urges developers to keep AI out of their process entirely.
Filmmaker & Studio Owner
The media mogul who put his $800 million Atlanta studio expansion “indefinitely on hold” in February 2024 after seeing OpenAI’s Sora — warning that without regulation, AI will cost the industry an enormous number of jobs.
Investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
The “Oracle of Omaha,” history’s most famous investor, compared AI to nuclear weapons at Berkshire Hathaway’s 2024 meeting — “the genie is out of the bottle” — and warned that AI-powered scamming could become “the growth industry of all time.”
