person

Aidan Gomez

CEO of Cohere; 'Attention Is All You Need' co-author

Co-author of the 2017 Transformer paper; now runs Cohere. Publicly skeptical of AI-extinction narratives; frames Cohere's strategic positioning as enterprise-first, away from consumer frontier racing.

current CEO and Co-founder, Cohere

@aidangomez

Strategy positions

AI skepticmixed

AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and current

Publicly critical of AI extinction-risk discourse; focuses on enterprise deployment and measured capability claims.

The extinction narrative has done real damage to the field by distracting from present harms and deployment reality.

¶ articleAidan Gomez interviews· Cohere· 2023· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Aidan Gomez's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Abhijit Banerjee
shared 1 · J=1.00
MIT economist; 2019 Nobel laureate
Ada Lovelace
shared 1 · J=1.00
First programmer; analytical engine theorist (1815–1852)
Alan Kay
shared 1 · J=1.00
Object-oriented programming and personal computing pioneer
Alex Hanna
shared 1 · J=1.00
Director of Research at DAIR; Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000
Andriy Burkov
shared 1 · J=1.00
ML engineer; 'The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book' author
Andy Clark
shared 1 · J=1.00
Sussex philosopher; extended mind theorist

Record last updated 2026-04-24.