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Luke Muehlhauser is an independent researcher and writer. His research interests include intelligence, rationality, and ethics. He was previously Executive Director at the Open Philanthropy Project, and prior to that, Research Director at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI). He has also worked at Leverage Research and the Center for Applied Rationality. Luke has a background in mathematics and philosophy.

Samuel Shadrach is a full-time activist focused on preventing AI companies from creating superintelligence, due to concerns about human extinction or permanent dictatorship. He graduated from IIT Delhi with a BTech+MTech in Biochem engg in 2023. He completed ML Safety Scholars under Dan Hendrycks at UC Berkeley and managed risk for Rari Capital, a cryptocurrency startup. Samuel completed an 18-day hunger strike on livestream in protest of AI companies building superintelligence, and was featured by ThePrint. He has published a US govt whistleblower database and guide, written for employees of AI companies building superintelligence.

Josh Worth has been working in the world of interactive media since the early 90s. He has worked as an interactive art director, interface designer, user experience designer, creative consultant, web strategist, graphic artist, illustrator, and animator on projects for clients like Sony Pictures, Marvel Comics, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Max Planck Institute. He designs websites, prototypes, mobile apps, and branding packages. Besides computer-related things, he is also a writer, playwright, and curator. In 1997, he started a non-profit arts organization called Trade City Productions. Lately he’s been leading up a project called Comingle. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

Jordan Webb is a systems engineer who solves problems that involve making lots of other peoples’ code all work together. He builds a lot of custom Linux distributions. He helped build two different ones for a company that used to be called Cleversafe, but is now IBM Cloud Object Storage. He also worked on another distribution for GitHub, which lives inside of GitHub Enterprise Server. Currently, he is helping out with infrastructure at Danger Devices. He is most comfortable programming in Python or C, and can also be happy and productive in Go, Perl, or Ruby. He is well-versed in bash and POSIX shell scripting. He knows enough JavaScript and TypeScript to keep himself out of trouble and is currently learning Rust. He is into Docker, OSTree, Podman, and systemd. When not running a distribution he built himself, he tends to prefer Debian, Ubuntu, or OpenWRT. When building a distribution that’s not a Debian derivative, he uses Yocto.

This person is passionate about craft beer. His interest in beer began after a trip to Prague and was further developed while living in London. Upon returning to Spain, he explored the craft beer scene in regions like Cantabria, Andalucía, and Valencia. A visit to the Guinness factory in Dublin inspired him to pursue his passion. After turning 40, he invested time and money to produce his first craft beer, "Crucificado en el Campo," a light, golden beer with citrus notes. He is currently working on the commercialization of his beer and is open to label design proposals.

Ánh is a designer based in Vietnam who creates delightful interfaces and fulfilling experiences. Her work includes web design, brand identity design, graphic design, publication design, product design, and exhibition design. She previously worked with a design studio in Saigon. Currently, Ánh works independently and alongside other designers and developers, focusing on digital-first services. In art and research, her themes include challenging the perceived functions of tools, exploring human vulnerability, speculating on consciousness, and performing internet satire. She wants to utilize internet and browser art more.

Samuele Amato is a 19-year-old developer who enjoys working with low-level systems. He shares some of his projects on GitHub, ranging from small C utilities to OSINT tools. Beyond programming, he likes writing and has a strong interest in philosophy and biology, which influence how he thinks and creates.

This person enjoys "analog" gaming, focusing on board games and tabletop games rather than video games. They have been logging their game plays on BoardGameGeek since 2008, with a preference for board games over tabletop games. While they enjoy playing both, they also enjoy converting and painting miniatures and building terrain. This website will likely feature images of miniatures and terrain. They have attended SPIEL Essen.

Nicolás Dato was born in Argentina in 1991. He has over 10 years of experience with C and over 3 years of experience with Java. He also has over 10 years of experience with Bash, Perl, and Linux. Excluding Java, his experience is in the broadcast industry, developing software at 3Way Solutions, where he produces systems to receive, monitor, analyze, and transmit video/audio content. He is also a freelancer for Boreal IT, working with Java, .NET, and React. He contributes to the OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia projects. He swims. He uses the Slackware Linux distribution and prefers free software.

Chris K. W. graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Data Science, in the College of Letters & Science. They previously worked on platform engineering, distributed computing, observability, and container orchestration at Anyscale. Chris is currently on sabbatical. In their freetime they enjoy doodling with their fancy printer, reading (with recommendations for Vonnegut, Ted Chiang, and Terry Pratchett), and playing competitive Pokemon. They can be contacted at <thissite.xyz>@gmail.com.

Matthew Weidner is a software developer at Common Curriculum. He is also a computer science PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Heather Miller. His research focuses on building blocks for collaborative and local-first software, with a particular interest in Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs). He maintains a blog with developer-oriented descriptions of collaborative data structures and his own research.

Max is an artificial intelligence researcher and indie developer from Seattle, currently based in Brooklyn. He completed his PhD at the University of Washington, advised by Yejin Choi. After graduating in 2021, he spent a couple of years traveling. Currently, he is bootstrapping an indie software shop called Least Significant Bit. He enjoys learning and working on smaller scale projects. He plays the tenor sax, clarinet, and piano and is perpetually learning to boulder. He is active on GitHub and is trying to tweet regularly. His second product is Weatherspread, a web app that visualizes recent historical weather and tourism data in a customizable interface.

James Bornholt is a senior principal engineer on the S3 team at Amazon Web Services. He works on the S3 Tables analytics service and S3 Vectors vector storage service, open-source clients like Mountpoint for Amazon S3 and S3 Connector for PyTorch, and backend storage systems including ShardStore. He also develops the Shuttle framework for testing concurrent Rust code at AWS and elsewhere. Before AWS, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in formal methods, programming languages, and systems, with a focus on making systems software faster and safer using automated verification and synthesis techniques. He has a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington. His work has received best paper awards from SOSP, OSDI, ASPLOS, and EuroSys.

Bobduh is the founder of the anime blog, Wrong Every Time. He enjoys anime, character writing, Big Ideas, and storytelling. He has been writing about anime for several years, progressing from forum rants to formal essays, and has held writing positions at Anime News Network and Crunchyroll. Currently, he runs a Patreon where readers commission him to write about various topics. Storytelling is his passion, and he has written fantasy novels and short stories, and occasionally publishes books. He consistently returns to anime criticism. Bobduh posts reader-commissioned writeups and essays, along with a "Week in Review" post. He also has a weekly "Why It Works" craft column on Crunchyroll, and writes regular anime reviews and other work for Anime News Network. He can be contacted via twitter or curiouscat, and is available for commissions at nicreamer42 (at) gmail dot com.

Txema León is a Product Engineer based in Madrid. He has been building for the web since 2009. Currently, he is the Founding Software Engineer & Tech Lead at Dreamshot, building tools. He builds products with TypeScript, mainly React frontends and Node.js backends, and is currently focused on AI tools. He cares about clean architecture, clear intent, and maintainable systems. Outside of work, he builds SaaS tools, with Notion to Calendar being his current project. He is an AI optimist and a believer in automation.

Aruarian is a software engineer and musician. He enjoys creating things with code and sound. He is interested in functional programming, generative art, and electronic music. He is currently exploring creative coding and building interactive audio-visual experiences.

The creator of Smile If You Dare is a regular person who retired in the summer of 2017 after ending a two-days-a-month gig when Covid hit. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area and started the blog in the fall of 2017 to comment on their experiences with retirement, money, and personal finance. The blog also covers related topics. They are not a professional financial advisor, and all writings are their personal opinions.

Zed Kaido is associated with the website zedkaido.com. They identify as OPUS-HUMANUM. They state, "To be honest, what or who I am, I don't know."

Kami is a trans girl working in webdev, primarily using PHP. She enjoys reading mahnwa, playing videogames, and reading cultivation novels. Her favorite book is Lord of the Mysteries, her favorite movie is Your Name, and her favorite music genre is folk punk. She plays Final Fantasy 14 (Kami Voidsun on Odin, Light) and Fantasy Life i. She also has a personal website at https://kamiscorner.xyz/ where she posts blogposts. She can be contacted via email at kami@kamiscorner.xyz.

Kami Voidsun is a blogger who writes about videogames, programming, and being trans. Kami's Corner is Kami's personal blog where they write about anything that comes to mind. In their free time, Kami mostly plays videogames and writes. Kami admits to being lazy and doesn't update the blog too frequently. The website has an RSS feed and an h-feed. Kami can be contacted via webmention or on Mastodon.