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Tom

Tom is the co-founder of Anthropic. Previously led engineering for GPT-3 at OpenAI, scaling it from 1.5B to 170B parameters, and contributed to foundational work on RLHF.

Jie

Jie has been part of the OpenAI research team since 2016. He was previously an early engineer at Dropbox.

Yi

Yi is an assistant professor of statistics at UChicago. His research is in probability and applications to machine learning and high dimensional statistics.

Jessica

Believer in people and cultivator of civic life, often using tech. Former lives: Cofounder & CEO/COO @ U.S. Digital Response; Fellow @ Code for America & Aspen Institute; local govvie; edtech builder. Field trip schemer, forever poet, persistent host.

Sam

Sam did a PhD in Algebraic Combinatorics before working at Google and most recently Scale, where he built the incentive system.

Jeff

Jeff is the co-founder and former COO of Pilot.com. Prior to Pilot, he led operations at OpenAI and founded Zulip (acquired by Dropbox), where he later led product for client and platform teams.

Sonia

Currently metalearning across multi-agent reinforcement learning, web 3, speculative science fiction, and multi-billion dollar bets... Twitter: @soniajoseph_

Malcolm

Malcolm was the first employee at Asana and worked on many pieces of the infrastructure there. Before that he was on the Android team at Google and wrote much of the initial version of Gmail for Android.

Bilal

Bilal is the elected Supervisor for San Francisco’s District 5, representing neighborhoods including the Tenderloin, Haight-Ashbury, and Japantown. A former tech executive and nonprofit leader, he previously served as Head of Product at Amplitude and Executive Director at Electric Action. He’s also the founder of the 13 Fund, supporting equity and local journalism.

Connor

Connor is the CEO, co-founder of Speak, an AI Speaking App that teaches users English. Prior to that, Connor created Flashcards+ which is an education app used by over 5 million students worldwide and eventually sold it to Chegg.