Ilya Sutskever
Ilya Sutskever is the co-founder and CEO of Safe Superintelligence. He was a co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, and earlier a key contributor to AlexNet and to deep-learning research under Geoffrey Hinton. He left OpenAI in May 2024 following the November 2023 board crisis, and founded SSI the following month. He became CEO in mid-2025 after co-founder Daniel Gross departed for Meta.