Overlord Chain

Yes, I made this with AI. Please forgive any errors.

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You’ll see a name and two photos. Pick the person named. Every right answer adds a link to your chain; one wrong answer ends the game.

There are 55 people from the world of AI: founders, chief executives, researchers and critics. Nobody is asked about twice in a game.

Idea shamelessly stolen from James O’Malley’s Congress Chain. Subscribe to James’ excellent newsletter here.

Photo credits

Photos via Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, used under the licenses shown. Some are cropped.

Aidan Gomez: Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Alex Karp: UK Government, CC BY 2.0
Alexandr Wang: Meta Platforms, Inc., CC BY-SA 4.0
Andrej Karpathy: Gladwin Analytics, CC BY 3.0
Andrew Ng: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0
Andy Jassy: Lisi Mezistrano Wolf, CC BY-SA 4.0
Arthur Mensch: Jan2342342423, CC0
Arvind Krishna: 首相官邸, CC BY 4.0
Bill Gates: Bogdan Hoyaux / European Union, CC BY 4.0
Cristiano Amon: Web Summit, CC BY 4.0
Dario Amodei: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0
David Sacks: The White House, Public domain
Demis Hassabis: John Sears, CC BY-SA 4.0
Elon Musk: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 4.0
Emad Mostaque: UK Government, CC BY 2.0
Eric Schmidt: Guillaume Paumier, CC BY 3.0
Geoffrey Hinton: Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ginni Rometty: Asa Mathat / Fortune Live Media, CC BY 2.0
Greg Brockman: TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0
Ilya Sutskever: Eladkarmel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Jakub Pachocki: ICPCNews, CC BY 2.0
Jeff Bezos: SECWAR, Public domain
Jeff Dean: Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0
Jensen Huang: The White House, Public domain
Joëlle Pineau: Gabriel Hutchinson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Jony Ive: Marcus Dawes https://www.marcusdawes.com marcus@marcusdawes.com, CC BY-SA 3.0
Kai-Fu Lee: Press Service of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, CC BY 4.0
Larry Ellison: The White House, Public domain
Larry Page: Stansfield PL, CC BY-SA 3.0
Lila Ibrahim: Tidylucywc, CC BY-SA 4.0
Lip-Bu Tan: United States Department of Commerce, Public domain
Lisa Su: Fuzheado, CC BY 4.0
Marc Andreessen: JD Lasica, CC BY 2.0
Marc Benioff: Salesforce., CC BY-SA 2.0
Mark Zuckerberg: The White House, Public domain
Masayoshi Son: European Communities, 2025 / EC - Audiovisual Service, CC BY 4.0
Michael Dell: Village Global, CC BY 2.0
Mike Krieger: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mustafa Suleyman: Christopher Wilson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Nat Friedman: Doc Searls, CC BY-SA 2.0
Palmer Luckey: Xuthoria, CC BY-SA 4.0
Peter Thiel: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
Rana el Kaliouby: Cairue, CC BY-SA 4.0
Ray Kurzweil: nrkbeta, CC BY-SA 2.0
Reid Hoffman: U.S. Secretary of Defense, CC BY 2.0
Robin Li: 中国新闻社, CC BY 3.0
Safra Catz: Cvdlvp, CC0
Sam Altman: 首相官邸ホームページ / Office of the Prime Minister of Japan Official Website, CC BY 4.0
Sarah Friar: MoneyConf, CC BY 2.0
Satya Nadella: Brian Smale and Microsoft, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sebastian Thrun: Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sergey Brin: Steve Jurvetson, CC BY 2.0
Sundar Pichai: Photographer: Lukasz Kobus (European Commission), CC BY 4.0
Tim Cook: Dati Bendo / European Union, CC BY 4.0
Yann LeCun: Jérémy Barande, CC BY-SA 2.0