List of 100 AI Influencers to Follow on X (Twitter)

This is a curated list of 100 prominent AI influencers, including researchers, entrepreneurs, ethicists, educators, and thought leaders. They are active on X (formerly Twitter) and share insights on machine learning, AI ethics, robotics, and more. The list is categorized for easier navigation. Handles are provided where known; note that availability may change.

Researchers and Academics (1-30)

Yann LeCun (@ylecun ) - Chief AI Scientist at Meta, pioneer in convolutional neural networks.
Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg ) - Founder of DeepLearning.AI, former head of Google Brain.
Geoffrey Hinton (@geoffreyhinton ) - “Godfather of Deep Learning,” Nobel Prize winner in AI.
Fei-Fei Li (@drfeifei ) - Co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute.
Yoshua Bengio (@yoshuabengio ) - Pioneer in deep learning, professor at University of Montreal.
Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy ) - Former Tesla AI director, OpenAI researcher.
Timnit Gebru (@timnitGebru ) - AI ethics researcher, founder of DAIR.
Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis ) - CEO of DeepMind.
Ilya Sutskever (@ilyasut ) - Co-founder of OpenAI.
Jürgen Schmidhuber (@schmidhuberAI ) - Pioneer in recurrent neural networks.
Kate Crawford (@katecrawford ) - AI ethics expert, author of “Atlas of AI.”
Chris Olah (@chrisolah ) - Co-founder of Anthropic, interpretability researcher.
Anca Dragan (@ancadragan ) - Robotics and human-AI interaction expert at UC Berkeley.
Pieter Abbeel (@pabbeel ) - Robotics and reinforcement learning professor.
Daphne Koller (@DaphneKoller ) - Co-founder of Coursera, AI in healthcare.
Zoubin Ghahramani (@ZoubinGhahrama1 ) - Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind.
Chelsea Finn (@chelseabfinn ) - Stanford professor in robotics and meta-learning.
Sergey Levine (@svlevine ) - UC Berkeley professor in deep reinforcement learning.
Oriol Vinyals (@OriolVinyalsML ) - Research Scientist at DeepMind.
Hugo Larochelle (@hugo_larochelle ) - Google Brain researcher, deep learning expert.
Shakir Mohamed (@shakir_za ) - DeepMind researcher on AI for social good.
Been Kim (@beenkim ) - Google Brain, interpretability in ML.
Samy Bengio (@samybengio ) - AI researcher, formerly at Google.
Kyunghyun Cho (@kchon2020 ) - NYU professor, neural machine translation.
Max Welling (@wellingmax ) - Professor in machine learning at University of Amsterdam.
David Ha (@hardmaru ) - AI artist and researcher at Google Brain.
Sara Hooker (@sarahookr ) - Cohere for AI, focus on model efficiency.
Alex Graves (@alexjgraves ) - DeepMind, recurrent networks.
Quoc Le (@quocleix ) - Google Brain, AutoML.
Leslie Kaelbling (@lpkaelbling ) - MIT professor in AI and robotics.

Entrepreneurs and Industry Leaders (31-60)

Elon Musk (@elonmusk ) - CEO of xAI, Tesla, SpaceX; advocates for AI safety.
Sam Altman (@sama ) - CEO of OpenAI.
Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleymn ) - Co-founder of DeepMind, now at Microsoft AI.
Reid Hoffman (@reidhoffman ) - LinkedIn co-founder, AI investor.
Emad Mostaque (@EMostaque ) - Founder of Stability AI.
Dario Amodei (@darioamodei ) - CEO of Anthropic.
Greg Brockman (@gdb ) - President of OpenAI.
Daniela Amodei (@daniela_amodei ) - Co-founder of Anthropic.
Aidan Gomez (@aidangomez ) - CEO of Cohere.
Alex Karp (@PalantirTech ) - CEO of Palantir, AI in data analytics.
Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang ) - CEO of NVIDIA, AI hardware.
Mira Murati (@miramurati ) - CTO of OpenAI.
Ian Goodfellow (@goodfellow_ian ) - Inventor of GANs, at Apple.
Jeremy Howard (@jeremyphoward ) - Founder of fast.ai.
Rachel Thomas (@math_rachel ) - Co-founder of fast.ai.
Clément Delangue (@ClemDelangue ) - CEO of Hugging Face.
Thomas Wolf (@Thom_Wolf ) - Co-founder of Hugging Face.
Julien Chaumond (@julien_c ) - CTO of Hugging Face.
Naveen Rao (@NaveenGRao ) - AI chip entrepreneur.
Kai-Fu Lee (@kaifulee ) - Sinovation Ventures, author of “AI Superpowers.”
Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla ) - Venture capitalist in AI.
Sebastian Thrun (@SebastianThrun ) - Founder of Udacity, autonomous vehicles.
Peter Diamandis (@PeterDiamandis ) - XPRIZE founder, AI futurist.
Ray Kurzweil (@raykurzweil ) - Inventor, AI singularity proponent.

AI Ethicists and Policy Experts (61-80)

Joy Buolamwini (@jovialjoy ) - Founder of Algorithmic Justice League.
Rumman Chowdhury (@ruchowdh ) - AI ethics advisor.
Abeba Birhane (@Abebab ) - Cognitive scientist, AI bias.
Rediet Abebe (@red_abebe ) - AI for social good.
Meredith Whittaker (@mer__edith ) - Signal president, AI critic.
Cathy O’Neil (@mathbabedotorg ) - Author of “Weapons of Math Destruction.”
Safiya Noble (@safiyanoble ) - Author of “Algorithms of Oppression.”
Ruha Benjamin (@ruha9 ) - Princeton professor on race and tech.
Virginia Eubanks (@PopTechWorks ) - Author on automated inequality.
Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus ) - Critic of deep learning, NYU professor.

Educators, Journalists, and Others (81-100)

Lex Fridman (@lexfridman ) - AI researcher, podcaster.
Jack Clark (@jackclarkSF ) - Co-founder of Anthropic, AI policy.
Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1 ) - Complexity scientist, author on AI.
François Chollet (@fchollet ) - Creator of Keras.
Aurélien Géron (@aureliengeron ) - Author of “Hands-On Machine Learning.”
Lilian Weng (@lilianweng ) - OpenAI safety.
Chip Huyen (@chipro ) - AI engineering educator.
Monica Rogati (@mrogati ) - Data science expert.
Inioluwa Deborah Raji (@rajiinio ) - AI accountability researcher.
Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker ) - Princeton professor on fairness.
Vincent Warmerdam (@fishnets88 ) - Calmcode.io founder.
Sasha Luccioni (@SashaMTL ) - Hugging Face, AI and climate.
Miles Brundage (@Miles_Brundage ) - OpenAI policy.
Jan Leike (@janleike ) - OpenAI alignment.
Paul Christiano (@paulc443 ) - Alignment Research Center.
Oren Etzioni (@etzioni ) - Allen Institute for AI.
Percy Liang (@percyliang ) - Stanford NLP.
Jacob Andreas (@jacobandreas ) - MIT NLP.
Dan Hendrycks (@DanHendrycks ) - Center for AI Safety.
Scott Aaronson (@scottaaronson ) - Quantum computing and AI theorist.

This list is not exhaustive and is for informational purposes. Follow them for the latest AI updates!