person
Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web
Inventor of the web and co-founder of the Solid project. Argues AI exploitation of the web requires a decentralised data architecture where individuals own their data.
Profile
expertise
Frontier builder
Currently or recently led training, architecture, or safety work on a frontier model. Hands on the loss curve.
Inventor of the World Wide Web. Turing Award 2016. Engages AI through Solid project and decentralisation framing.
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.
Web-inventor profile; Wikipedia in 100+ languages.
vintage
Symbolic era
Career started in the GOFAI / expert-systems / early-rationalist period. Vinge's 1993 Singularity, MIRI founded 2000, Bostrom and Yudkowsky writing.
WWW 1989. Solid project 2016. His AI engagement inherits a pre-deep-learning information-architecture frame.
Hand-classified. See the board for the criteria and the full grid.
Strategy positions
Open sourceendorses
Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safetyArgues decentralised data architecture (Solid pods) is the structural response to AI and platform exploitation.
“The web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division; swayed by powerful forces who use it for their own agendas.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.