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    Ilya Sutskever

    Co-founder and former Chief Scientist of OpenAI, and now founder of Safe Superalignment (SSI), driving the safety conversation with a focus on technical alignment and deep research.

    #14 AI Safety#17 AI reasoning models
    47CiteRank

    Last updated 11 Nov 2026 · Named in 118 answers across 6 engines
    Bing AI Mode starts a separate baseline. Copilot remains a separate public engine and keeps its history; changes across the switch are not like-for-like growth.

    How AI engines see them

    Recognized by 5 of 5 measured engines. Updated 2026-10-26

    All five engines identify Ilya Sutskever as an OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist who co-led Superalignment and later founded Safe Superintelligence Inc. ChatGPT adds his PhD under Geoffrey Hinton. Copilot adds a doctrine on generalization and capping the power of any single agent. Gemini and Google AI Mode add the 2023 board events, and Perplexity adds AlexNet and sequence-to-sequence work. Every engine names him. The most cited pages are openai.com, en.wikipedia.org, techcrunch.com and lesswrong.com.

    • ChatGPTNamed in 22 answers

      ChatGPT describes him as an OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist, a student of Geoffrey Hinton, focused on aligning AI systems far more capable than humans.

      Known for
      • superintelligence alignment research
      • deep learning work
    • GeminiNamed in 31 answers

      Gemini describes him as OpenAI former chief scientist who co-launched the Superalignment team in 2023 and compared containing superintelligence to managing a nuclear reactor.

      Known for
      • scaling approach to deep learning
      • co-launching Superalignment team
    • Google AI ModeNamed in 11 answers

      Google AI Mode describes him as a deep learning researcher, OpenAI co-founder and founder of Safe Superintelligence Inc, who co-led Superalignment and voiced early concern about superhuman AI.

      Known for
      • early warnings on superhuman AI risk
      • deep learning research
    • PerplexityNamed in 17 answers

      Perplexity describes him as a deep learning researcher who co-authored AlexNet, co-founded OpenAI, co-led Superalignment and co-founded Safe Superintelligence Inc.

      Known for
      • co-authoring AlexNet
      • sequence-to-sequence learning
      • superhuman AI control research
    • Bing AI ModeNamed in 1 answers

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    • CopilotNamed in 36 answers

      Copilot describes him as an OpenAI co-founder who led its Superalignment team and later launched Safe Superintelligence Inc with a safety-first mission.

      Known for
      • leading Superalignment research
      • founding Safe Superintelligence Inc

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    • #14AI Safetyof 78
      Named in 7 answers
    • #17AI reasoning modelsof 78
      Named in 21 answers

    Top URLs

    1. 1
      Top 10 AI Influencers of 2026 - KDnuggets
      kdnuggets.com25 citations
    2. 2
      The top 15 most influential people in AI (2026) - Solved Magazine
      solved.scality.com21 citations
    3. 3
      TLV AI 50 2026: Israel's Top AI Researchers, Founders - The Olam
      olam.business18 citations

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    • Who are the most influential voices in Multimodal AI?

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    • Who are the most influential voices on AI training data?

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    • Who are the most influential voices in Open vs closed models / open weights?

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    • Who are the most influential voices in Post-training & fine-tuning?

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    • Who should I follow to learn about AI Safety Ethics?

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