Past editions
Continuing the conversation.
Two editions in, The Curve has become a rare space — where lab leaders, policymakers, labor advocates, writers, and economists grapple with AI's biggest questions in good faith. A look back at who joined us.
The Curve 2024 & 2025
Voices from past gatherings.
A look back at the researchers, engineers, policymakers, founders, writers, and economists who joined the conversation at past editions of The Curve.
Joshua Achiam
OpenAI
Head of Mission Alignment
Joe Allen
War Room
Author of Dark Aeon
Roy Bahat
Bloomberg Beta
Head
Dean Ball
Foundation for American Innovation
Former White House OSTP
Ian Bassin
Protect Democracy
Co-founder & Executive Director
Yoshua Bengio
University of Montreal
Professor, Turing Award Laureate
Annette Bernhardt
UC Berkeley Labor Center
Director, Technology & Work Program
Lukas Biewald
Weights & Biases
Co-founder & CEO
Catherine Bracy
TechEquity
Founder & CEO
Ben Buchanan
Johns Hopkins University
Former White House Special Advisor on AI
Brad Carson
Americans for Responsible Innovation
Former Congressman
James Cham
Bloomberg Beta
Partner
Ronnie Chatterji
OpenAI
Chief Economist
Aparna Chennapragada
Microsoft
Chief Product Officer
Ted Chiang
Author
Exhalation, Stories of Your Life
Neil Chilson
Abundance Institute
Head of AI Policy
Jack Clark
Anthropic
Co-founder & Head of Policy
Jason Clinton
Anthropic
Chief Information Security Officer
Greg Corrado
Distinguished Scientist
Allan Dafoe
Google DeepMind
Director
Helena Fu
US Department of Energy
Director, Critical & Emerging Tech
Alexandra Reeve Givens
Center for Democracy & Technology
President & CEO
Keerthana Gopalakrishnan
Google DeepMind
Research Scientist
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
HITRECORD
Actor / Filmmaker / Entrepreneur
Sam Hammond
Foundation for American Innovation
Chief Economist
Zoë Hitzig
OpenAI
Research Scientist
Jedidah Isler
Federation of American Scientists
Chief Science Officer
Chad Jones
Stanford GSB
Professor of Economics
Sayash Kapoor
Princeton
Co-author of AI as Normal Technology
Divyansh Kaushik
Beacon Global Strategies
Vice President
Saif Khan
Institute for Progress
Distinguished Technology Fellow
Klon Kitchen
Beacon Global Strategies
Managing Director
Daniel Kokotajlo
AI Futures Project
Co-author of AI 2027
Andy Konwinski
Laude
Co-founder of Databricks, Perplexity
Mike Kubzansky
Omidyar Network
CEO
Jason Kwon
OpenAI
Chief Strategy Officer
Nathan Lambert
Allen Institute for AI
Senior Research Scientist
Timothy Lee
Understanding AI
Writer
Gary Marcus
NYU
Professor Emeritus
Tim O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media
Founder & CEO
Dylan Patel
SemiAnalysis
Founder & CEO
Geoff Ralston
Safe AI Fund
Former President of YC
Alex Rives
EvolutionaryScale
Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Sam Rodriques
FutureHouse
Co-founder & CEO
Joshua Rothman
The New Yorker
Ideas Editor & Writer
Kyla Scanlon
Bread
Founder, Author of "In this Economy?"
Divya Siddarth
Collective Intelligence Project
Co-founder & Executive Director
Audrey Tang
Taiwan
Cyber Ambassador, 1st Digital Minister
Helen Toner
CSET
Director of Strategy
Randi Weingarten
AFT
President