Mikhail Parakhin, Shopify's CTO, is a renowned expert in search technology, with extensive experience in machine learning and large-scale system optimization. He has held leadership roles at Microsoft, Yandex, and is an advisor to several AI startups.

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Groq CEO Jonathan Ross aims to lead AI by developing chips called LPUs to make AI models run faster, focusing on inference rather than training, to capitalize on the increasing demand for computing power.

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Arati Prabhakar advises President Joe Biden on AI policy, focusing on its risks and benefits, as part of her role at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Jimmy Ba, a member of Elon Musk's xAI, is working to understand the universe through AI. He has a background in deep neural networks and previously worked at Meta.

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Benjamin Huynh, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University, utilizes AI to uncover biases in California's environmental-protection agency's funding tools. His research in environmental health intersects with healthcare, environmental justice, and social justice, focusing on the question of how AI can be used to democratize algorithmic audits.

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Tawana Petty, an advocate for equitable AI, is raising concerns about the use of surveillance technologies, particularly facial recognition, in marginalized communities. She believes these technologies can be harmful and advocates for minimizing their impact.

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Healthcare data expert Suchi Saria is using AI to analyze healthcare records to identify high-risk infants and improve healthcare outcomes.

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Eureka Labs, founded by AI expert Andrej Karpathy, uses AI to personalize education through interactive lessons and a custom AI teaching assistant. Their first product, LLM101n, teaches students how to create AI models.

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Michael Foster, Chief Data Officer at US Central Command (Centcom), is recognized in Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List. With a background in the Air Force, intelligence agency, and tech companies like CrowdAI and Maxar Technologies, Foster has contributed to developing big data and AI applications for Centcom's operations in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia. The command is integrating AI and computer-vision technologies to support its defense missions and bolster its tech workforce.

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Google VP Amin Vahdat is leading the development of Google's AI chips and integrating them into various products. He believes Google's tensor processing units contributed to the Transformer AI model breakthrough.

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