person
Lisa Su
CEO of AMD; central figure in the AI compute supply
Runs AMD, the #2 AI chip supplier. Public voice for 'more compute = more capability' and argues supply-chain constraints rather than demand have been the bottleneck on AI progress.
Profile
expertise
Policy / meta
Specialises in AI policy, regulation, governance, philanthropy, or movement strategy. Reads the technical literature but does not produce it.
AMD CEO. Engineering background; operates as exec. Strategic role in AI hardware competition with NVIDIA.
recognition
Household name
Name recognition outside the AI/CS community. Featured by mainstream press, a Wikipedia page in many languages, a published bestseller, or holds a position the lay public knows.
TIME100; mainstream business-press fixture.
vintage
Deep-learning rise
Came up post-AlexNet. ImageNet, AlphaGo, transformer paper. DeepMind, Google Brain, FAIR establish the modern lab template.
AMD CEO since 2014. AI-relevant chip strategy through deep-learning era hardware demand.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Techno-optimismendorses
Technology and markets solve risks faster than regulation creates themPublicly bullish on compute scaling as the core driver of AI progress; focuses on supply-side bottleneck framings.
“More compute will get you better answers and will allow you to get the technology more adopted across the world. I'm more bullish on that than not.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.