The Independent names 100 minds that shaped AI, with gwern at No.1 and repligate musing on fame
repligate · x · 2026-09-25
The Independent has published its "Independent 100" list of the minds that shaped AI models, featuring gwern at No. 1 alongside Jürgen Schmidhuber, Robin Hanson, repligate, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Beff (e/acc), Pliny the Liberator, Scott Alexander, Omar Khattab, Jeremy Howard and more — spanning researchers, e/acc and AI safety camps, and Twitter's outsider intellectuals.
Listee repligate shared the news with a reflection on the psychological strangeness of the outside world treating you and your friends as the main characters of an anime — something nearly every kid fantasizes about, but the world rarely reflects back for most people.
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