Top 20 LinkedIn Creators on AI Ethics (2026)

#20 · Chris Donnelly, 464 median likes per AI Ethics post

Chris Donnelly, co-founder of Searchable, gives AI Ethics the smallest share of his feed in this top 20: 3%. Those posts earn 34% less than his overall median, the steepest discount on the list.

He still makes the cut on 13 posts. For the rest of his numbers, see his data biography.

"IKEA replaced 8,500 customer service roles with AI. And the company is now $1.4 billion richer because of it..." His most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 6,876 likes, almost 15 times his median. Read it

#19 · Greg Isenberg, 466 median likes per AI Ethics post

Greg Isenberg is the CEO of Late Checkout, a portfolio of internet companies. He qualifies on 11 AI Ethics posts, one above our floor, and those posts earn about what the rest of his feed does (4% below).

"I spent 48 hours in SF with billionaires, data labs and AI founders running $1B to $100B companies." His most liked post tagged AI Ethics by our classifier: 1,614 likes. Read it

#18 · Stephanie Hills, 474 median likes per AI Ethics post

Stephanie Hills is an executive coach who has been a tech executive at three Fortune 500 companies. Her AI Ethics posts draw 394 median comments, second only to Bill Gates in this top 20, on an audience of 80k.

She also appears at #18 in our ranking of the fastest-rising LinkedIn creators.

"He had an AI strategy. He couldn’t name the problem. I see this pattern with executives more than you’d think." Her most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 2,132 likes and 1,134 comments, close to one comment for every two likes. Read it

#17 · Alex Wang, 513 median likes per AI Ethics post

Alex Wang shares his learning journey in AI and data science with 1.2 million followers. AI Ethics is 7% of his feed, and those posts earn 29% more than his overall median. He is #7 in our Australia ranking.

"Funny but real: AI can make producing work faster and still make the company slower." His most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 20,394 likes, about 40 times his median and the biggest single post on this page. Read it

#16 · Ruben Hassid, 531 median likes per AI Ethics post

Ruben Hassid, whose headline reads "Master AI before it masters you", has 896k followers. His AI Ethics posts earn 30% less than his overall median.

His AI Ethics median fell from 969 in 2025 to 531 so far in 2026. We cover the rest in his full data biography.

"I rank 23 AI tools from S to F. This will make some of you (very) angry:" His most liked post tagged AI Ethics by our classifier: 1,524 likes and 412 comments. Read it

#15 · Emma Shad, 546 median likes per AI Ethics post

Emma Shad, CEO of Emellex and founder of the AI Leadership Hub, earns 121% more on AI Ethics posts than on the rest of her feed, the second-highest premium in this top 20. With 52k followers, she also makes the efficiency cut below.

"AI Agents Are Not the Foundation. Trusted Data Is. Before you deploy another AI agent, ask one question: what truth will it inherit?" Her most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 1,494 likes and 656 comments. Read it

#14 · Ralph Aboujaoude Diaz, 551 median likes per AI Ethics post

Ralph Aboujaoude Diaz heads governance, risk and compliance for digital and tech at Haleon. He published 102 AI Ethics posts in 12 months, the second-highest count here, and still earns 24% above his own median on them.

That volume puts him second in the total-likes cut below.

"AI can hallucinate and CEOs apparently can too." His most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 14,475 likes, 26 times his median, the widest gap here after Alex Wang's. Read it

#13 · Charlie Hills, 574 median likes per AI Ethics post

Charlie Hills helps his 261k followers use AI in practice. AI Ethics is 5% of his feed and earns 21% under his overall median, yet his 292 median comments are the fifth-highest in this top 20.

He is #15 in our UK ranking, and his data biography goes further.

"You don't need a $500 Claude course. Anthropic just launched the Claude Academy:" His most liked post tagged AI Ethics by our classifier: 1,071 likes, under twice his median. Read it

#12 · Robert F. Smith, 587 median likes per AI Ethics post

Robert F. Smith is the founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners. AI Ethics takes 32% of his feed, the second-highest share in this top 20, and earns about what his other posts do (4% above).

He posted 53 times in 12 months, the second-lightest schedule in this top 20.

"Years ago, we made a deliberate decision at Vista Equity Partners to treat agentic AI as an immediate operational priority." His most liked post tagged AI Ethics by our classifier: 1,711 likes. Read it

#11 · Scott Galloway, 598 median likes per AI Ethics post

Scott Galloway, professor of marketing at NYU Stern and founder of Prof G Media, gives AI Ethics only 4% of his feed: 15 posts out of 380. Those 15 earn 8% more than his overall median.

"Many people in Silicon Valley believe that artificial general intelligence … will create a 'permanent underclass.'" His most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 2,736 likes and 380 comments. Read it

#10 · Addy Osmani, 635 median likes per AI Ethics post

Addy Osmani is a director at Google Cloud AI and a best-selling author. AI Ethics is 4% of his feed, and those posts earn 18% less than his overall median.

The gap between his best post and his median is the fourth-widest in the top 20.

"Excited to announce my next book with O'Reilly: Agentic Engineering!" His most liked post tagged AI Ethics by our classifier: 5,971 likes, over 9 times his median. Read it

#9 · Tony Seale, 637 median likes per AI Ethics post

Tony Seale writes as The Knowledge Graph Guy. AI Ethics fills 43% of his feed, the highest share in this top 20, on the lightest schedule: 42 posts in 12 months.

His 1.34% engagement rate is second in the efficiency cut below.

"There are two important things happening in AI right now, and nobody has put them together." His most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 1,942 likes. Read it

#8 · Jyothish Nair, 834 median likes per AI Ethics post

Jyothish Nair is a technical delivery manager at Openreach and a doctoral candidate researching AI and the future of work in tech. With 18k followers, he is the smallest account in the top 20, and his 4.70% engagement rate is the highest on the page.

His best post earned 1.2 times his median, the smallest gap here: his rank rests on consistency. He is also #5 in our ranking of the best small LinkedIn accounts.

"Plugging a high-performance AI system into a broken corporate workflow is like dropping a Ferrari engine into a car with flat tyres. More power. Same problem." His most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 1,009 likes and 240 comments. Read it

#7 · Rasel Ahmed, 949 median likes per AI Ethics post

Rasel Ahmed is the CEO of Musemind and works across AI, UX and product strategy. AI Ethics is 6% of his feed and earns 14% above his overall median.

His 1.62% engagement rate leads the efficiency cut below, and he is #10 in our Germany ranking.

"Airlines are making a fundamental shift: they are systematically gutting standard economy to make room for ultra-luxury cabins." His most liked post tagged AI Ethics by our classifier: 2,080 likes. Read it

#6 · Luís Rodrigues, 955 median likes per AI Ethics post

Luís Rodrigues is a chief product and technology officer leading digital transformation in financial services, telecoms and government. His AI Ethics posts earn 62% more than his overall median, the third-highest premium here.

He is #9 in our UAE ranking.

"By 2030, 92 million jobs will disappear. And according to the World Economic Forum, 170 million jobs will be created. That’s a net gain of 78 million." His most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 2,100 likes and 237 comments. Three figures come before any opinion. Read it

#5 · Clem Delangue, 969 median likes per AI Ethics post

Clem Delangue, co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, has the biggest AI Ethics premium in this top 20. His AI Ethics posts earn 969 median likes against 310 across his whole feed, about three times more.

They are only 13 of his 210 posts in 12 months.

"Just watched the Netflix Instadocs about the OpenAI cyberattack on Hugging Face. Super disappointing, as they went for maximum anthropomorphism of the technology and full doomer mode." His most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 4,607 likes and 420 comments. Read it

#4 · Tareq Amin, 1,017 median likes per AI Ethics post

Tareq Amin is the CEO of HUMAIN, which is building Saudi Arabia's full-stack AI operating company. His AI Ethics posts earn 50% more than his overall median.

With 143k followers, his 0.71% engagement rate is the best of the top five.

"Days like today reinforce how grateful and privileged I am to work with an exceptional group of partners…" His most liked post tagged AI Ethics by our classifier: 3,297 likes. Read it

#3 · Pascal Bornet, 1,160 median likes per AI Ethics post

Pascal Bornet is an author and keynote speaker on AI and automation, with 1.5 million followers. He is the most prolific creator on the page: 156 AI Ethics posts in 12 months, more than the next two in the top 20 combined (102 and 48).

His AI Ethics posts earn 14% under his overall median, and his AI Ethics median went from 1,587 in 2025 to 1,144 so far in 2026. He still tops the total-likes cut below.

"What if the biggest breakthrough in AI education isn't about giving students answers, but helping them understand?" His most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 4,295 likes. Read it

#2 · Roland Busch, 1,532 median likes per AI Ethics post

Roland Busch, president and CEO of Siemens, ranks second on 11 AI Ethics posts, one above our floor. They earn 14% more than his overall median.

He is also #3 in our Germany ranking. Of the four creators ranked both here and in our AI top 20, he is the only one who earns more on AI Ethics than on AI.

"Morning routine: quark, berries and Q3 results! 🥣🍇" His most liked post tagged AI Ethics by our classifier, a Siemens quarterly results announcement: 5,564 likes. Read it

#1 · Bill Gates, 2,339 median likes per AI Ethics post

Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation and founder of Breakthrough Energy, tops the ranking with 2,339 median likes per AI Ethics post, 69 times the typical AI Ethics post and about one and a half times Roland Busch at #2.

With 40.7 million followers, he is also the biggest account on the page. AI Ethics is 8% of his feed, 17 posts out of 208, and earns 6% under his overall median.

His 440 median comments are the highest in the top 20. He is #13 in our United States ranking.

"AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice." His most liked AI Ethics post of the year: 10,591 likes and 2,130 comments, the most commented best post on this page. Read it

Where do these cards come from? We computed every figure on this page from public posts with MagicPost's LinkedIn analytics: median engagement per theme, share of feed, theme premiums and trajectories, across 678 AI Ethics creators and 29,199 AI Ethics posts. It works on your profile too, including a side-by-side with anyone on this list.

Who just missed the top 20 AI Ethics creators on LinkedIn?

Five names land right behind, and the margins are thin: #20 is just 2 likes of median ahead of #21.

Timnit Gebru (#21, 462 median likes per AI Ethics post) is the most dedicated of the five: AI Ethics fills 53% of her feed, which puts her among the 46 creators in the pool who give the theme half their feed or more.

Katharine Gordon (#22, 446) gets there with 11k followers. Steve Nouri (#23, 432) has the biggest audience of the five, 1.7 million followers, and earns 88% more on AI Ethics than on the rest of his feed.

Jonathan Haidt (#24, 426) and Javeriya Ahsan (#25, 423) close the list; Ahsan's 23 AI Ethics posts are the most of the five.

Which AI Ethics creators on LinkedIn have the highest engagement rate?

Raw like counts reward whoever has the biggest crowd. Engagement rate corrects for that: median likes on AI Ethics posts divided by followers, among accounts with 20k followers or more.

Rasel Ahmed (#7), Tony Seale (#9) and Emma Shad (#15) sit in both cuts. Federico Donatone and Kelsey Hightower rank outside the top 20 on raw likes.

Jyothish Nair, at 4.70%, would lead this table, but his 18k followers fall under its 20k floor. The top 20 itself runs from his 4.70% down to 0.01% for Bill Gates, on 40.7 million followers.

Who earns the most total likes on AI Ethics posts on LinkedIn?

Medians reward the typical post. Total likes on AI Ethics posts over 12 months reward volume instead:

Pascal Bornet leads with more than twice the total of Ralph Aboujaoude Diaz in second. Bill Gates reaches third with 17 posts, where Bornet needed 156.

Four names here rank outside the top 20: Ethan Mollick, Gabriel Millien, Andreas Horn and Tiffany Masson, whose 138 AI Ethics posts are the second-highest count in this table.

Which AI Ethics creator on LinkedIn gets the most comments per post?

Among accounts with 100+ median likes, the record in our AI Ethics pool belongs to Jitendra Sheth, a digital marketing architect, at 264 median comments against 158 median likes on his AI Ethics posts: about 1.7 comments for every like.

The typical top-20 creator gets one comment for every 6 likes. Inside the top 20, Stephanie Hills comes closest to Sheth's ratio, with 394 median comments to 474 median likes.

How is the AI Ethics ranking different from our AI ranking?

A post carries one theme in our data, so no post counts in both rankings. AI Ethics is the smaller conversation: 29,199 posts in 12 months against 43,138 for AI. It is also the quieter one, with a typical post at 34 likes against 82 for AI.

Four creators make both top 20s:

• Bill Gates: #1 here, #7 on AI

• Roland Busch: #2 here, #13 on AI

• Pascal Bornet: #3 here, #12 on AI

• Charlie Hills: #13 here, #20 on AI

Busch is the only one of the four whose AI Ethics posts out-earn his AI posts, at 1,532 median likes against 1,287. The other sixteen names here do not appear in the AI top 20.

Are LinkedIn's top AI Ethics creators full-time AI Ethics voices?

Almost none. Of the 678 creators in the pool, only 46 give AI Ethics half their feed or more, and nobody in this top 20 does. Tony Seale comes closest at 43%, then Robert F. Smith at 32%.

At the other end, Chris Donnelly (3%), Addy Osmani and Scott Galloway (4% each) post on the theme only now and then.

Focus does not predict the premium. Clem Delangue gives AI Ethics 6% of his feed and earns 213% more on it; Chris Donnelly gives it 3% and earns 34% less.

Company leaders fill much of this top 20: the CEOs of Siemens, Hugging Face, HUMAIN, Musemind, Vista Equity Partners, Late Checkout and Emellex, plus Bill Gates. Full-time AI content creators split: Pascal Bornet ranks third, while Ruben Hassid, Charlie Hills and Alex Wang sit in the bottom half.

Nine of the twenty are based in the United States and five in the United Kingdom. To compare them with every other field, open our worldwide ranking of the top LinkedIn creators; for the platform natives one by one, see our guide to the top LinkedIn creators to study.

And if showing up in these creators' comment sections is part of your plan, an engagement feed keeps it to a five-minute daily habit.

How we ranked LinkedIn's top AI Ethics creators

All of this is MagicPost's own research. We went through 29,199 AI Ethics posts from the last 12 months and ranked the 678 creators who clear our floors by median likes on those posts alone.

Only creators with at least one post in the last 60 days are ranked. The method:

• Floors: at least 5,000 followers and 10 AI Ethics posts in the window; person accounts only, deleted posts excluded.

• Median rather than average: no single viral post can buy a place.

• AI Ethics posts only: each post gets a theme from our own classification, and only those posts count.

• Posts analyzed: the AI Ethics posts our dataset holds per creator, sometimes fewer than they published.

• Per creator: share of feed, premium over their own median, engagement rate and comment-to-like ratio.

Rankings refresh as the data does. No placement here was sponsored; every rank comes straight from the median.

Study them, then study yourself. With MagicPost you can analyze any AI Ethics creator the way we just did (median engagement by theme, share of feed, premiums, trajectory) and benchmark your own profile. The data on this page is the product.