On September 7, TIME magazine unveiled their first TIME100 AI list, which features the top 100 figures in artificial intelligence (AI). The top 100 ranking is broken down into four categories: leaders, innovators, shapers, and thinkers.
Elon Musk of xAI, 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 others are among the 43 CEOs, founders, and co-founders on the 2023 TIME100 AI list.
The list also contains 41 women and nonbinary people, among them Intel’s general manager of the data center and AI group and Humane Intelligence’s CEO and co-founder Rumman Chowdhury, cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane, COO of Google DeepMind Lila Ibrahim, and CEO and co-founder of Humane Intelligence, Lila Ibrahim. Linda Dounia Rebeiz, Kelly McKernan, Fei-Fei Li, Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President, European Commission, Anna Eshoo, Representative, US Congress, Sneha Revanur, Founder and President, Encode Justice, Verity Harding, Director of the AI & Geopolitics Project, Cambridge University, Sarah Chander, Senior Policy Advisor, European Digital Rights, Nina Jankowi, Chief AI Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face Margaret Mitchell, Sandra River
In addition to these, a number of other Indians and people of Indian ancestry have made the “TIME100 AI List.” The youngest person on the TIME 100 list is Sneha Revanur. Encode Justice’s founder and president is an 18-year-old. Revanur recently assisted in organizing an open letter requesting that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and legislative leaders include more young people on their advisory and oversight committees for artificial intelligence (AI). Soon after, Vice President Kamala Harris asked her to a roundtable discussion on artificial intelligence. Neal Khosla, CEO and co-founder of the 2017-founded AI-assisted telemedicine business Curai Health, is one of the other Indians and Indian Americans on the list.
The list also includes Pushmeet Kohli, Vice President of Research at Google DeepMind; Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India; Manu Chopra, Romesh, and Sunil Wadhwani, Co-Founders of Wadhwani AI; and Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor, Professor & Doctoral Candidate at Princeton University.
