This page profiles researchers, practitioners and authors whose work shapes how the insurance industry understands artificial intelligence. Each profile summarises the expert's affiliation, key insights and research theme, with a representative quote, so readers know whose thinking is worth their time.
Profiled experts
Alex Karp — Co-founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies
Alex Krizhevsky — Former Research Scientist, Google Brain; Former PhD Researcher, University of Toronto
Eliezer Yudkowsky — Co-founder & Research Fellow, Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)
Emad Mostaque — Founder & Former Chief Executive Officer, Stability AI
Eric Schmidt — Co-founder, Schmidt Futures
Former CEO & Executive Chairman, Google
Chair, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI)
Eric Sheridan — Managing Director & Senior Research Analyst, Goldman Sachs 
Ethan Mollick — Professor of Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Fei-Fei Li — Sequoia Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
Co-Director, Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute (HAI)
Former Chief Scientist of AI/ML, Google Cloud
Feiyu Xu — Former Senior Vice President & Global Head of AI at SAP SE; Vice President & Head of AI Lab, Lenovo Group; Non‑Executive Director at Airbus SE, Siemens Energy AG, ZF Friedrichshafen 
Felix Rieseberg — Developer Advocate, Slack (formerly Senior Developer Advocate, Microsoft; contributor to Electron)
Gary Marcus — Professor Emeritus, New York University; Founder, Geometric Intelligence
Heidy Khlaaf — Chief AI Scientist, AI Now Institute;
Former Senior Safety Engineer, OpenAI
Ilya Sutskever — Co-founder & former Chief Scientist, OpenAI
Now leading new AI safety-focused initiative (2025)
Jack Clark — Co-founder & CEO, Anthropic
Former Policy Director, OpenAI
Co-author, Import AI newsletter
Jan Peters — Professor of Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Technical University of Darmstadt; Head of Robot Learning Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Jonathan Haidt — Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern School of Business; Co-founder, Heterodox Academy
Kai-Fu Lee — Chairman & CEO, Sinovation Ventures
Former President of Google China; Founding Leader of Microsoft Research Asia
Kate Crawford — Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research;
Research Professor, USC Annenberg;
Honorary Professor, University of Sydney
Luis von Ahn — Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Duolingo
Marc Andreessen — Venture Capital Firm specialising in technology and AI
Max Tegmark — Professor of Physics, MIT
President, Future of Life Institute
Melanie Mitchell — Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Miriam Vogel — President & CEO, EqualAI — a non-profit focused on responsible AI governance. 
Chair, National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC) — the U.S. Congress-mandated advisory body to the President and White House on AI policy. 
Mo Gawdat — Former Chief Business Officer, Google X; Chief AI Officer, Flight Story; Founder, One Billion Happy
Mustafa Suleyman — CEO & Co-founder, Inflection AI; formerly Head of Applied AI at DeepMind, VP of AI Product Management & AI Policy at Google
Nick Bostrom — Professor of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Founding Director, Future of Humanity Institute (FHI)
Paul Dongha — Head of Responsible AI & AI Strategy, NatWest Group (UK) 
Peter Steinberger — Founder, Creator of OpenClaw (open-source AI agent); Researcher & Engineer now at OpenAI
Peter Thiel — Co-founder, Palantir Technologies; Founding Partner, Founders Fund
Peter Diamandis — Founder & Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation
Rana el Kaliouby — Deputy CEO, Smart Eye
Co-founder & former CEO, Affectiva
Ray Eitel-Porter — Senior Adviser (Responsible AI) & Managing Director, UK-Ireland Applied Intelligence, Accenture
Also Senior Research Associate, Responsible AI at Jesus College Cambridge. 
Ray Kurzweil — Director of Engineering, Google (Emeritus)
Founder, Kurzweil Technologies
Reid Hoffman — Co-founder, LinkedIn; Partner, Greylock; Co-founder, Inflection AI
Richard S. Sutton — Chief Scientific Advisor, DeepMind; Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
Richard Susskind — President, Society for Computers and Law
Advisor to UK Government and professional services firms
Roman V. Yampolskiy — Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Louisville
Sam Altman — CEO, OpenAI; formerly President of Y Combinator
Sandra Wachter — Professor of Technology and Regulation, University of Oxford – Oxford Internet Institute
Senior Research Fellow in AI, Law and Ethics
Scott Hanselman — Vice President, Developer Community, Microsoft
Sebastian Thrun — Co-founder, Udacity; Founder, Google X and Google’s Self-Driving Car Team; Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
(Former VP and Fellow at Google; Founder of Kitty Hawk)  
Tim Berners-Lee — Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford & Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Yann LeCun — Chief AI Scientist, Meta AI; Professor of Computer Science, New York University
Yoshua Bengio — Professor, Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, Université de Montréal; Founder & Scientific Director, Mila – Quebec AI Institute
Yuval Noah Harari — Historian & Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Co-founder, Sapienship
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