Software testers I pay attention to:

James Christie Karen Johnson Huib Schoots Michele Playfair David Greenlees Beren Van Daele Aaron Hodder Hilary Weaver Paul Merrill Duncan Nisbet James Marcus Bach Alan Richardson Paul Holland Mr.Viktor Slavchev Dan Ashby Elizabeth Zagroba Michael Bolton Patrick Prill Eric Proegler Danny Dainton Santhosh Tuppad Jyothi Rangaiah Fiona Charles Reema Makwana Alessandra Moreira Paul Grizzaffi Damian Synadinos Nate Custer Maaike Brinkhof Maria Kedemo Richard Bradshaw   

The BEST resource page for software testers, hosted by Huib Schoots

Normal (non-testing) folks I like:

Ben Kelly Martin Hynie Scott Berkun Rob Lambert Michaela Ross Jeff Perkins Kate Starr, CFA Josh Lieberman Lorinda Brandon Nouriel Roubini Trish Khoo Angie Jones Timnit Gebru Dagmar Monett Emily M. Bender Marisa Zalabak Aurélie JEAN, Ph.D       

Stuff you should watch/listen:

Testing In The Pub Association for Software Testing Engineering Quality Podcast 

Writing that has influenced my approach to AI in testing:

The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want – Emily Bender and Alex Hanna

Artifictional Intelligence: Against Humanity’s Surrender to Computers – Harry Collins

On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? – Emily Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, Margaret Mitchell

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity – Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad Farajtabar

The Pursuit of Fairness in Artificial Intelligence Models: A Survey – Tahsin Kheya, Mohamed Jenek, Sunil Aryal

Against the Commodification of Education – Dagmar Monett, Gilbert Paquet

AI Now Landscape Report – Kate Brennan, Amba Kak, and Dr. Sarah Myers West

Developer Testing in the IDE Patterns Beliefs and Behavior – Beller, Gousios, Panichella, Proksch, Amann, Zaidman

Hiroshima Process International Code of Conduct

Responsible AI: Implement an Ethical Approach in your Organization – Olivia Gambelin 

Writing that has influenced my approach to testing/quality:

How Complex Systems Fail – Richard I. Cook, MD

The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully – Gerald Weinberg

Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-solving Approach – Gerald Weinberg

Quality Software Management: Vol 2: First-Order Measurement – Gerald Weinberg

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software – Charles Petzold

Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations – Robert Austin

Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman

Tacit and Explicit Knowledge – Harry Collins

Rethinking Expertise – Harry Collins

Explore It!: Reduce Risk and Increase Confidence with Exploratory Testing – Elisabeth Hendrickson

Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context–Driven Approach – Bach, Kaner, Pettichord

The Leprechauns of Software Engineering – Laurent Bossavit

Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The 48 Laws Of Power – Robert Greene

Search For The Real, And Other Essays – Hans Hoffman

Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring) – Christopher Hitchens