299 · Tier 5 — High-leverage niche and emerging figures
Alex Kantrowitz
Founder and host, Big Technology
AI position
Not yet assessed
Generally supports deployment and competition while emphasizing practical product limits, market incentives, transparency and the need to test claims against real adoption.
Sheet category (Jul 12, 2026 snapshot): Innovation + pragmatic guardrails
Based on a recurring public pattern; it may not amount to a formal legislative or regulatory proposal.
Why influential
Defines how AI and technology power are understood by policymakers, investors, researchers, workers and the broader press. Primary policy lanes: ai; platforms; technology strategy; regulation.
Who pays attention
Technology managers, founders, investors, regulators, policy staff and professional listeners
Work samples
Representative articles, episodes, and segments will appear here after the research pass — with dates, links, and AI-relevance notes.
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Evan Hubinger — Head of Alignment Stress-Testing, Anthropic
- Hosted / interviewedsource · interview · Dec 3, 2025 — How An AI Model Learned To Be Bad — With Evan Hubinger And Monte MacDiarmid — Interviewed Hubinger on reward hacking and emergent misalignment research, Dec 2025