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46 subjects · 15 pro-AI · 30 anti-AI
Showing 46 profiles · 15 pro-AI · 30 anti-AI · 1 nuanced
Founder of Platformer
Platformer founder and Hard Fork co-host whose essay “The phony comforts of AI skepticism” drew the field’s battle line: the question isn’t whether AI is fake and sucks, but that it’s real and dangerous — and skeptics are missing the story.
Video Journalist (Huge If True)
Emmy-nominated ex-Vox video journalist whose Huge If True channel makes explicitly optimistic explainers about AI, space, and biotech — asking “what could go right?” — and who was named a TIME100 Creator in 2026 for her tech-optimist coverage.
Writer & Co-Author of Abundance
Longtime Atlantic writer whose #1 bestseller Abundance (with Ezra Klein) casts AI as an engine of coming prosperity — even as his newsletter obsessively stress-tests the boom for bubble dynamics. A self-described historical realist, not a doomer.
New York Times Columnist & Podcaster
Vox co-founder turned New York Times columnist whose “The Government Knows A.G.I. Is Coming” episode pushed transformative AI into mainstream politics — and whose Abundance agenda, co-written with Derek Thompson, treats AI as central to the century.
Mathematician & Broadcaster
Cambridge professor of the public understanding of mathematics, author of “Hello World,” and host of Google DeepMind’s podcast — Britain’s foremost explainer of algorithms, clear-eyed about their flaws and “really optimistic” about AI.
Tech Columnist & Author
Emmy-winning tech columnist who spent a full year letting AI run her life — therapist, assistant, even boyfriend — for her bestseller I Am Not a Robot. Her verdict: keep the tools, keep your agency. “I will work with AI, but I am not working for it.”
Journalist & YouTuber
Emmy-winning geopolitics YouTuber (7M+ subscribers) who makes AI-danger explainers but adopts the technology in practice — publicly seeking in 2023 to train an AI on his 250 scripts so his team could generate “starter language” for future videos.
Journalist & Media Entrepreneur
Pioneering TV anchor turned media entrepreneur who hosts Google’s “The Future of AI” interview series, covers AI relentlessly through Katie Couric Media, and champions AI in cancer screening.
Wired Co-Founder & Futurist
Wired’s founding executive editor and author of The Inevitable. Kelly casts generative AIs as universal interns, makes AI art daily, and preaches “protopia” — a future made incrementally better by technology, with AI mattering more than electricity or fire.
Tech Columnist, The New York Times
New York Times technology columnist and “Hard Fork” co-host who argues society is underreacting to AI — he says AGI-level systems are coming within a few years and that institutions are dangerously unprepared.
Podcast Host & AI Researcher
MIT researcher turned podcaster whose marathon interviews with nearly every major AI figure reach tens of millions — consistently framing AI as “exciting and terrifying” but betting on the exciting half.
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.
Talk-Show Icon and Media Mogul
The most influential talk-show host in American history, who hosted ABC’s 2024 special “AI and the Future of Us” and urged viewers not to fear AI but to “honor it and have a reverence for what is to come.”
New York Times Columnist
Three-time Pulitzer winner and The World Is Flat author who declared GPT-4 humanity’s “new Promethean moment” — a technology so transformative that society can’t change just one thing, it has to change everything.
Author & Journalist
Pulitzer-finalist novelist and tech journalist whose viral essay “Ghosts” was written with GPT-3, and whose 2025 book “Searches” weaves ChatGPT transcripts into its pages — a sharp Big Tech critic who keeps AI in her toolkit.
Researcher & Writer, Citation Needed
The creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great and the Citation Needed newsletter, who — unlike her wholesale dismissal of crypto — grants that AI tools are “kind of useful,” uses them herself, and warns fellow critics against overclaiming, even as she argues the energy, labor and hype costs aren’t yet justified.
Writer & Web Developer
Icelandic writer and veteran web developer whose book The Intelligence Illusion makes the business case against generative AI — arguing its capabilities are overstated and much of the perceived gain is statistical illusion, if not outright fraud.
Tech Journalist & Author
Tech journalist and author of Blood in the Machine, the 2023 history of the Luddites that became the intellectual playbook for AI resistance — reframing “Luddite” as a badge of honor for workers fighting bosses who wield AI against them.
Investigative Journalist
The journalist who exposed Cambridge Analytica now calls the AI ascendancy a “digital coup” by a Silicon Valley “broligarchy” — telling TED that ChatGPT was trained on her work and data without consent.
Broadcaster and Naturalist
The beloved British naturalist whose voice defined seven decades of nature television — and who said in 2024 he was “profoundly disturbed” to find AI clones of it being used to say “whatever they wish,” calling it identity theft.
Creator of The Wire
The journalist-turned-showrunner behind The Wire and The Deuce became one of television’s fiercest opponents of AI-written scripts during the 2023 writers’ strike, saying he would sooner quit than let a machine solve his story problems.
Tech Critic & Host of Better Offline
Author of the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast — the loudest voice arguing that generative AI is an unprofitable bubble and “one of the most craven cons of the 21st century.”
Tech Writer & Podcaster
Writer on technology, finance, and labor and co-host of the This Machine Kills podcast, who argues the AI industry runs on manufactured fear — with companies like OpenAI weaponizing hype to secure deals rather than deliver value.
Broadcast Journalist
CBS Mornings host who publicly warned fans after an AI deepfake video of her endorsing a weight-loss product went viral — an early celebrity victim of AI scam advertising.
Journalist & Co-Founder of 404 Media
Co-founder of the worker-owned tech outlet 404 Media and former editor-in-chief of Motherboard, Koebler is among the most-cited reporters documenting how AI slop is brute-forcing the internet and collapsing the shared sense of what is real.
Essayist & New Yorker Staff Writer
New Yorker staff writer and Trick Mirror author who sued OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training on her work and has written searingly about AI-generated unreality breaking our grip on the world.
Investigative journalist, founder of Proof News
Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist whose “Machine Bias” exposé founded the algorithmic-accountability beat. Her Proof News investigation revealed AI firms trained on swiped YouTube transcripts, and her NYT op-ed urged pressing pause on the AI hype machine.
Journalist & Nonfiction Author
Hollywood Reporter senior editor and author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth who filed the first authors’ copyright suit to name Microsoft alongside OpenAI, leading a class action for nonfiction writers.
Tech Journalist & Podcaster
The dean of tech journalism — Recode co-founder, host of On with Kara Swisher and Pivot — says AI is overhyped junk food people fundamentally do not like: “It tastes like a Twinkie… I don’t know if they can ever make it taste like an apple.”
Columnist & Editor
Award-winning columnist and founding editor of the Washington Post’s Global Opinions section, who warns that AI is flattening human writing into a recognizable machine cadence and is being deployed in newsrooms mainly to displace human labor.
Journalist & Author
Award-winning AI journalist whose 2025 bestseller Empire of AI became the defining critical chronicle of OpenAI — arguing that the AI industry operates like a colonial empire, extracting data, labor, land, and water from the many to enrich the few.
Tech Journalist
Veteran freelance tech reporter and Techdirt contributor who has chronicled AI’s “disastrous introduction to journalism” — arguing executives see the technology mainly as a way to cut corners and undermine underpaid labor.
New York Times technology reporter
New York Times reporter who exposed Clearview AI’s face-scraping operation and chronicled it in “Your Face Belongs to Us” — a sustained warning that AI-powered facial recognition is ending privacy as we know it.
AI editor of the Financial Times
The Financial Times’ first AI editor. Her book “Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI” documents how AI extracts labor from and inflicts harm on the world’s most vulnerable — a system she describes as data colonialism.
Journalist & Nobel Peace Laureate
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning co-founder of Rappler warns that generative AI turbo-charges the disinformation that nearly destroyed her — and launched the Global Call for AI Red Lines at the UN, demanding binding limits by the end of 2026.
Political Commentator
The Daily Wire firebrand behind “What Is a Woman?” is one of the American right’s loudest anti-AI voices — calling AI “art” “the death of the soul” and warning the technology will “destroy human civilization as we know it.”
Data Journalist & NYU Professor
The NYU data-journalism professor who coined “technochauvinism” argues AI is oversold and encodes race, gender, and ability bias by default — a leading debunker of AI hype.
Artist & Writer
Artist, writer, and chronicler of protest movements who organized a 2023 open letter — signed by thousands of artists and journalists — urging publishers to restrict “vampirical” AI-generated illustration.
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.
Tech Critic & Podcaster
Canadian tech critic behind the Disconnect newsletter and the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast, and one of the most relentless voices arguing that generative AI is an environmental and social disaster sold on hype.
Internet-Culture Journalist
Author of the Garbage Day newsletter and host of the Panic World podcast, Broderick is one of the sharpest chroniclers of how AI slop is hollowing out social media — and a champion of writing in a stubbornly human voice against it.
Actor & Author
British actor, writer, and broadcaster whose Harry Potter audiobook narration was used to clone his voice without consent in 2023 — making him one of the UK’s leading witnesses against AI exploitation of performers.
The National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me joined the Kadrey v. Meta class action over Llama’s training on pirated books, and is a plaintiff against OpenAI as well.
Newspaper
America’s newspaper of record, whose December 2023 copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft is the defining media-versus-AI court case — even as the Times signs its own AI licensing deals, starting with Amazon.
The former Fox News host tells his massive audience that AI will “get away from us” — and that if it threatens humanity, “we have a moral obligation to murder it immediately,” data centers included.
Sociologist and New York Times columnist
Princeton sociologist and New York Times columnist with a record of early calls on technology’s harms. She argues AI’s real threat is surveillance, manipulation, and eroded privacy — not science-fiction extinction — and that the hype is colliding with unreliability.
