TIME100 AI List: TIME Releases Maiden List Of World's Most Influential People In Artificial Intelligence (Image: https://time.com/collection/)
The first ever TIME100 AI list has been released with world”s top most influential people in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), on Thursday. The list includes 100 leaders, pioneers, innovators and thinkers who are contributing much more to shaping today”s AI outlook.
The worldwide cover of the new issue features a digital illustration of 28 list-makers done by Neil Jamieson. The cover includes Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario and Daniela Amodei of Anthropic, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, and many more from the new list.
The list in total features CEOs, founders and co-founders, women and nonbinary individuals, policy makers and government officials, creative people, artists”, musicians, filmmakers and writers.
For the formulation of TIME100 AI, the editors have consulted nominations and recommendations from dozens of industry leaders and expert sources, says reports.
“TIME”s mission is to highlight the people and ideas that are making the world a better, more equitable place”, the Newswire quoted TIME Chief Executive Officer Jessica Sibley.
“At this critical moment of exceptional growth and advancement in AI, we are proud to reveal the first-ever TIME100 AI list to recognize the individuals leading AI innovation, including those advancing major conversations to promote equity in AI”, Ms Sibley added.
“Reporting on people and influence is what TIME does best. That led us to the TIME100 AI”, wrote TIME Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs.
“This group of 100 individuals is in many ways a map of the relationships and power centers driving the development of AI. They are rivals and regulators, scientists and artists, advocates and executives—the competing and cooperating humans whose insights, desires, and flaws will shape the direction of an increasingly influential technology”, Mr Jacobs added.
“We wanted to highlight the industry leaders at the forefront of the AI boom, individuals outside these companies who are grappling with profound ethical questions around the uses of AI, and the innovators around the world who are trying to use AI to address social challenges,” says executive editor Naina Bajekal, who led the effort of fielding the recommendations.
Besides the list and photographs, TIME100 AI also includes in-depth profiles and interviews.
The youngest individual recognized on the TIME100 AI list is 18-year-old Sneha Revanur, who recently met with the Biden Administration as part of her work leading Encode Justice, a youth-led movement organizing for ethical AI.
On the other hand it is 76-year-old Geoffrey Hinton, who left his position at Google this spring to speak freely about the dangers of the technology he helped bring into existence, as the oldest.
The list features 43 CEOs, founders and co-founders including Elon Musk of X AI, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Andrew Hopkins of Exscientia, Nancy Xu of Moonhub, Kate Kallot of Amini, Pelonomi Moiloa of Lelapa AI, Jack Clark of Anthropic, Raquel Urtasan of Waabi, Aidan Gomez of Cohere and more.
It also included 41 women and nonbinary individuals. CEO & co-founder of Humane Intelligence Rumman Chowdhury, cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane, COO of Google DeepMind Lila Ibrahim, General Manager of the Data Center and AI Group at Intel Sandra Rivera, chief AI ethics scientist at Hugging Face Margaret Mitchell, Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li, artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz, and artist Kelly McKernan are some among them.
U S representatives Anna Eshoo and Ted Lieu, chair of the U K”s AI Foundation Model Taskforce Ian Hogarth, Taiwan”s minister of digital affairs Audrey Tang, and the UAE”s minister for artificial intelligence Omar Al Olama are the policy makers and government officials who got included.
The list also features creatives interrogating the influence of AI on society or experimenting with the technology including musician Grimes, science fiction writer Ted Chiang, Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker, filmmaker Lilly Wachowski, musician Holly Herndon, artist Linda Dounia Rebeiz, and artist Sougwen Chung.
