AI Researchers

AI Researchers is a data page on the AI desk of Glassbox Auditing. The prominent AI researchers and paper writers the terminal tracks, the rule that selected each one, their institution and identifiers (OpenAlex, ORCID, Wikidata). Frontier models depend on a small pool of researchers, so where they work and when they move shows which labs and countries are gaining capacity.

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What is on this page today?

Where does the data come from?

Items on this page come from OpenAlex and Wikidata; OpenAlex, Wikidata and DBLP. Each item links to its own source. All sources, how items are checked.

What does this page lead to?

  • AI Trajectory (AI): Researchers who change employer show up in their OpenAlex affiliations; a lab losing senior authors reads higher on the trajectory's departures vector. (moves the same way; months; company scale) Source: OpenAlex (scholarly works).
  • H-1B & Talent (Immigration): Many U.S. AI researchers were born abroad and came as students; labs and big tech firms keep them on H-1B and other skilled visas, so demand for researchers shows in those employers' petitions. (moves the same way; years; sector scale) Source: USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub.
  • Universities (Education): Universities train most AI researchers and employ many; when labs hire faculty and graduate students away, university research groups lose staff while companies gain them. (either way, depending on the cause; years; sector scale) Source: OpenAlex (scholarly works).
  • Companies & Research (Education): Federal research grants (NSF, NIH) fund many of the university labs these researchers work in, and the company partnerships that grow out of them. (moves the same way; years; sector scale) Source: NSF Awards API (research grants by organisation).
  • Labs & Countries (AI): Frontier models come out of labs with deep research benches, so where leading authors work (OpenAlex records their institutions and countries) underlies the country gap the Labs page measures. (either way, depending on the cause; years; global scale) Source: OpenAlex (scholarly works).

What feeds this page?

  • AI Companies (AI): New funding pays for hiring; when a developer takes on a tracked researcher, the move shows in that author's OpenAlex affiliation on their next papers. (moves the same way; months; company scale) Source: OpenAlex (scholarly works).

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