Acknowledgments
Special thanks to the individuals whose contributions, ideas, efforts, and inspiration have significantly influenced the development of the AI First Principles.
Author of The Pragmatic Programmer & the Manifesto for Agile
VP of Applied Deep Learning @ NVIDIA
Former Chief Decision Scientist @ Google
Co-author, Manifesto for Agile Software Development
Former NASA Administrator
AI Design Lead @ Meta
AI Editor @ MIT Sloan Management Review
Author, WISER Method, Partner @ FirstStrategy.ai
UX Lead @ Google Gemini
Author, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Tech Journalist @ CNN, New Your Times
Author, The Design of Everyday Things
Author, Thinking, Fast and Slow
Chair Emeritus @ IDEO
Contributing Editor @ UX Mag
Principal Product Designer @ Slack
Head of Global Innovation @ ServiceNow
Head of AI Research, Adobe
Founder and CEO @SingularityNET
Director Strategic Partner Relationships @ Verizon
Professor of Psycholinguistics @ Arcadia University
Author, The Lean Startup
Neuroscientist, Psychologist, Best Selling Author
Author, Weapons of Math Destruction
Technology Correspondent @ Reuters
Founder @ The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
AI Researcher @ UC Berkeley
Professor Emerita @ UC Santa Cruz
Author, Deep Learning, Research Scientist @ Google
Author, The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles
Director @ Computational Journalism Lab
Richard McElreath
Director @ Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Professor Emeritus @ Technical University of Berlin
Henry G. Bryant Professor @ Princeton University
Author, Uberland: Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
Novartis Professor of Leadership @ Harvard Business School
Author, Learning to See
CEO @ Lean Enterprise Institute
Author, Positive Computing
Author, A History and Theory of Informed Consent
Cecilia Yen Koo Professor @ The Wharton School
Presidential Endowed Professor @ University of Minnesota
Author, Managing the Unexpected
Author, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Author, Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
Author, Empire of AI, AI Reporter @ The Atlantic
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