BROWSE THE MACHINE AGE CAST
AI EDUCATORS
7 launched dossiers. Factual role labels can overlap: one person may appear in several useful lists.
EDUCATORS
- Andrej KarpathyHinton's classroom → OpenAI → Tesla → OpenAI again → teaching the internet how the machines work.
- Andrew NgGoogle Brain, Baidu, Coursera, DeepLearning.AI — one of the people who turned modern AI into a mass profession.
- Ethan MollickOne Useful Thing, classroom experiments, and a professor treating every new model like office equipment that needs testing.
- Jeremy HowardKaggle, fast.ai, ULMFiT — a career spent dragging deep learning out of elite labs and into ordinary hands.
- Jerry KaplanEarly commercial AI, a tablet company that lost, internet auctions, labor warnings — and a veteran founder still arguing with doomers.
- swyx (Shawn Wang)Learn in Public, Latent Space, and a successful campaign to make AI Engineer an actual job title.
- ThePrimeagenNetflix, Neovim, Harpoon, livestreamed open source — and an AI agent built by someone who still wants humans to code.