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What the sigils are

Initials on a colour, and the reasoning behind the fallback.

Snapshot 2026-10-25 240 claims 138 citations 209 people

A sigil is two letters and a colour derived from the person's role. It is not a portrait, an avatar or an illustration of a face; it is a placeholder that says 'no licensed photograph is available'.

The alternative — generating a plausible face — would make the page look more finished and would make the archive less trustworthy. The sigil is the honest version of the same empty space.

PersonOrganisationGroupClaims
<div class="person"><span class="face sigil" aria-hidden="true">SA</span><div><strong>Sam Altman</strong><br /><span class="tiny">CEO and cofounder · OpenAI</span></div></div>OpenAIFrontier labs5
<div class="person"><span class="face sigil" aria-hidden="true">EM</span><div><strong>Elon Musk</strong><br /><span class="tiny">xAI founder; SpaceX CEO · xAI / Grok (within SpaceX)</span></div></div>xAI / Grok (within SpaceX)Frontier labs4
<div class="person"><span class="face sigil" aria-hidden="true">CD</span><div><strong>Clément Delangue</strong><br /><span class="tiny">Cofounder and CEO · Hugging Face</span></div></div>Hugging FaceCompute &amp; capital3
<div class="person"><span class="face sigil" aria-hidden="true">DA</span><div><strong>Dario Amodei</strong><br /><span class="tiny">Cofounder and CEO · Anthropic</span></div></div>AnthropicFrontier labs3
<div class="person"><span class="face sigil" aria-hidden="true">DH</span><div><strong>Demis Hassabis</strong><br /><span class="tiny">Chair, Google DeepMind; Alphabet chief scientist · Google DeepMind</span></div></div>Google DeepMindFrontier labs3
<div class="person"><span class="face sigil" aria-hidden="true">AG</span><div><strong>Aidan Gomez</strong><br /><span class="tiny">Cofounder and CEO · Cohere</span></div></div>CohereCompute &amp; capital2
<div class="person"><span class="face sigil" aria-hidden="true">AN</span><div><strong>Andrew Ng</strong><br /><span class="tiny">Founder, DeepLearning.AI; managing GP, AI Fund · DeepLearning.AI</span></div></div>DeepLearning.AIResearchers &amp; evaluation2
<div class="person"><span class="face sigil" aria-hidden="true">AN</span><div><strong>Arvind Narayanan</strong><br /><span class="tiny">Professor; director, Center for Information Technology Policy · Princeton University</span></div></div>Princeton UniversityResearchers &amp; evaluation2
Where a portrait exists the ledger uses it; where it does not, the initials stand in.

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