Inaugural TIME100 AI list of the world’s most influential people in artificial intelligence
TIME Magazine has revealed the inaugural TIME100 AI, a new list highlighting the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.
The 2023 TIME100 AI issue features a worldwide cover with illustrations by Neil Jamieson for TIME, featuring 28 list-makers including Sam Altman of OpenAI, Dario and Daniela Amodei of Anthropic, Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, and more from the new list.
Published alongside the TIME100 AI are in-depth profiles and interviews with musician Holly Herndon, co-founder of character.ai Noam Shazeer, world-renowned researcher Geoffrey Hinton, president of Signal Foundation Meredith Whittaker, co-founder and chief AGI scientist of Google DeepMind Shane Legg, co-founder and president of OpenAI Greg Brockman, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of Schmidt Futures Eric Schmidt, science-fiction writer Ted Chiang, policy adviser Alondra Nelson and more.
To assemble the list, TIME‘s editors and reporters solicited nominations and recommendations from industry leaders and dozens of expert sources. The result is a list of 100 leaders, pioneers, innovators and thinkers who are shaping today’s AI landscape.
“TIME‘s mission is to highlight the people and ideas that are making the world a better, more equitable place,” said TIME CEO 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 recognise the individuals leading AI innovation, including those advancing major conversations to promote equity in AI.”
Of the inaugural TIME100 AI list, TIME editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs writes: “Reporting on people and influence is what TIME does best. That led us to the TIME100 AI… This group of 100 individuals is in many ways a map of the relationships and power centres driving the development of AI. They are rivals and regulators, scientists and artists, advocates and executives—the competing and co-operating humans whose insights, desires and flaws will shape the direction of an increasingly influential technology.”
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE 2023 TIME100 AI LIST
The 2023 TIME100 AI list features 43 CEOs, founders and co-founders.
The list also features 41 women and non-binary individuals.
The youngest individual recognised 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 organising for ethical AI.
On the other end 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.
There are also policy-makers and government officials on this year’s list.
Scientists, professors, researchers and activists recognised on the list include those focused on AI ethics, bias and safety.
The list also features creatives interrogating the influence of AI on society or experimenting with the technology.
