300 · Tier 5 — High-leverage niche and emerging figures

Billy Perrigo

Senior AI correspondent

AI position

No x-risk mention

No clear personal AI-policy stance was located. Coverage centers on frontier safety, labor, global governance, data work and the institutional power of AI companies.

Sheet category (Jul 12, 2026 snapshot): No clear personal stance

The summary describes reporting or editorial emphasis, not a personal policy preference.

Why influential

Defines how AI and technology power are understood by policymakers, investors, researchers, workers and the broader press. Primary policy lanes: frontier ai; safety; labor; global governance.

Who pays attention

AI labs, policymakers, researchers, foundations, national-security staff, business leaders and general news audiences

Work samples

Representative articles, episodes, and segments will appear here after the research pass — with dates, links, and AI-relevance notes.

AI-world contactsunprocessed

  • Dan Hendrycks Executive Director, Center for AI Safety

    • Quoted / citedsource · direct quote · Mar 21, 2024Nobody Knows How to Safety-Test AI — Bylined two separate TIME pieces on Hendrycks (Mar. 2024 safety-testing piece; May 2023 extinction-statement piece), a recurring TIME AI-policy reporter.