List of People in AI
From TIME Magazine's lists of the Most Influential People in AI
The significance of the lists lies in the ability to illustrate AI's impact across industries and communities.
The lists reflect a shift from AI as a technological advancement to its recognition as a social and economic force, for AI is more than an algorithm, it's a human endeavor influenced by the ideas and innovations of many different people. Here are links to profiles of the leaders, innovators, shapers, and thinkers of AI, culled in part from TIME's lists of 2023 through 2025, representing industries, companies, research, artists, philosophers and more. Click on an icon to jump to a section.
Leaders
Adam Evans, Executive vice president and general manager, Salesforce AI
Aidan Gomez, CEO and Co-Founder of Cohere
Alex Karp, Co-Founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies
Alexandr Wang, CEO and Founder of Scale AI
Allie K. Miller, CEO, Open Machine
Amnon Shashua, President and CEO, Mobileye
Andrew Ng, Founder of DeepLearning.AI
Andy Jassy, President and CEO, Amazon
C.C. Wei, Chairman and CEO of TSMC
Cari Tuna, President of Open Philanthropy
Cristiano Amon, President and CEO, Qualcomm
Clara Shih, CEO of Business AI at Meta
Clément Delangue, CEO and Co-Founder Hugging Face
Daniel Gross, Entrepreneur and Investor
Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, CEO and President of Anthropic
David Holz, Founder, Midjourney
Demis Hassabis, CEO and Co-Founder of Google DeepMind
Elon Musk, Founder of xAI
and designer of Optimus
Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.
Faisal Al Bannai, Secretary General at the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC)
Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications, OpenAI
Greg Brockman, Co-Founder and President of OpenAI
Jaime Teevan, Chief Scientist at Microsoft
Jensen Huang, CEO, President and Co-Founder of Nvidia
Success is a work in progress. It's not about achieving a goal; it's about constantly improving and pushing boundaries.
Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures
Kevin Scott, CTO and Executive Vice President of AI at Microsoft
Liang Rubo, CEO and co-founder of ByteDance
Liang Wenfeng, founder of HighFlyer hedge fund and DeepSeek AI
Lila Ibrahim, COO of Google DeepMind
Marc Andreessen, Entrepreneur and Investor
Marc Raibert, Executive Director at Boston Dynamics AI Institute
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank and Chairman of Stargate
Matthew Prince, Co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI and Co-Founder of Inflection AI
Nat Friedman, Superintelligence Lab co-leads, Meta
Raquel Urtasun, CEO and Founder of Waabi
Ravi Kumar S, CEO, Cognizant
Reid Hoffman, Entrepreneur and Investor
Ren Zhengfei, Founder and CEO, Huawei
Rene Haas, CEO, Arm
Robin Li, CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Baidu
Rohit Prasad, SVP and head scientist of Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon
Sasha Luccioni, AI and Climate Lead at Hugging Face
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI
You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.
Sandra Rivera, General Manager of Data Center and AI Group at Intel
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Steve Huffman, Co-founder and CEO, Reddit
Strive Masiyiwa, Founder and executive chairman, Cassava Technologies
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet
Wang Xiaochuan, Founder of Baichuan
Wang Xingxing, CEO, Unitree Robotics
Zhuang Rongwen, Director of Cyberspace in the Administration of China
Innovators
Alan Descoins, CEO, Tryolabs
Alex Blania, Co-founder and CEO, Tools for Humanity
Alison Darcy, Founder and President of Woebot Health
Ana Helena Ulbrich, Co-founder and director, NoHarm
Andrew Hopkins, CEO and Founder of Exscientia
Andy Parsons, Senior director of content authenticity, Adobe
Anant Vijay Singh, Product Lead at Proton
Andrew Feldman, CEO and Founder of Cerebras Systems
Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity
Arthur Mensch, Co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI
Brandon Tseng, Co-founder and president, Shield AI
Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure AI
Chris Mansi, Co-founder of Viz.ai
Christophe Fouquet, CEO of ASML
Charlie Brooker, Writer
Cristobal Valenzuela, CEO and Co-Founder of Runway
Dan Neely, Co-Founder and CEO of Vermillio
David Ha, Co-founder and CEO, Sakana AI
Daphne Koller, Founder and CEO of Insitro
Denise Herzing, Founder and research director, Wild Dolphin Project
Grimes and Holly Herndon, Musicians
Edwin Chen, Founder and CEO, Surge AI
James Peng, Founder and CEO, Pony.ai
Jeff Leek, Vice president and chief data officer, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
John Jumper, Director and AlphaFold team lead at Google DeepMind
Jonathan Ross, CEO of Groq
Kakul Srivastava, CEO, Splice
Kate Kallot, CEO and Founder of Amini
Keith Dreyer, Chief Data Science Officer at Mass General Brigham
Lawrence Lek, Artist and Filmmaker
Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission
Lisa Su, CEO of AMD
Lilly Wachowski Filmmaker
Linda Dounia Rebeiz, Artist
Maithra Raghu, Co-founder and CEO, Samaya AI
Manu Chopra, CEO Karya
Mati Staniszewski, Co-founder and CEO, ElevenLabs
Mfikeyi Makayi, CEO, KoBold Metals Africa
Mike Krieger, Chief product officer, Anthropic
Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI
Mitesh Khapra, Associate professor, IIT Madras
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI
Nancy Xu, CEO and Founder of Moonhub
Natasha Lyonne, Co-founder, Asteria Film Co.
Nathaniel Manning, COO and Co-founder of Kettle
Navrina Singh, Founder and CEO, Credo AI
Neal Khosla, CEO and Co-Founder of Curai
Noam Shazeer, CEO and Co-Founder of Character.AI
Pelonomi Moiloa, CEO and Co-Founder of Lelapa AI
Palmer Luckey, Founder of Anduril Industries
Peggy Johnson, CEO, Agility Robotics
Piotr Dabkowski, Co-founder and CTO of ElevenLabs
Priya Donti, Assistant Professor, MIT
Refik Anadol, Artist
Richard Socher, CEO and Founder of You.com
Rick Rubin, Music producer
Rootport, Author of Japanese manga
Sam Rodriques, Co-founder and CEO, FutureHouse
Sougwen Chung, Artist
Stephanie Dinkins, Artist
Sarah Gurev, Co-lead author on the EveScape project
Shiv Rao, Co-founder and CEO of Abridge
Silvio Savarese, Executive vice president and chief scientist of AI research at Salesforce
Tareq Amin, CEO, Humain
Ted Chiang, Writer
Tekedra Mawakana, Co-CEO of Waymo
Tushita Gupta, CTO and Co-Founder of Refiberd
Victor Riparbelli, CEO of Synthesia, AI Video communications platform
Willonius Hatcher, Comedian and AI Storyteller
Zack Dvey-Aharon, Co-founder and CEO of AEYE Health
Ziad Obermeyer, Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley
Shapers
Abhishek Singh, CEO, IndiaAI Mission
Alex Bores, Assembly member, New York State
Alondra Nelson, Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study and Policy Adviser
Anna Eshoo, former U.S. Congress Representative
Anna Makanju, Vice President of Global Affairs at OpenAI
Audrey Tang, Minister of Digital Affairs for Taiwan
Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy, Nigeria
Bruce Reed, Head of AI, Common Sense Media
Chase Lochmiller, Co-founder and CEO, Crusoe
Chris Lehane, Chief global affairs officer, OpenAI
Chris Murphy, U.S. Senator, Connecticut
Clara Chappaz, Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Affairs, France
Dan Hendrycks, Executive Director of the Center for AI Safety
David Sacks, White House AI and crypto czar
Doug Matty, Chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, U.S. Department of Defense
Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, Executive director, SAG-AFTRA
Ed Newton-Rex, Founder and CEO, Fairly Trained
Elham Tabassi, Associate Director of Emerging Technologies at NIST
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Co-Founder of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute
Elliston Berry, Activist against AI harms
Eric Schmidt, Co-Founder of Schmidt Futures
and former CEO of Google
I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable, and recorded by everyone all the time.
Henna Virkkunen, Executive Vice President for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy, European Commission
Ian Hogarth, Chair of the U.K.’s Frontier AI Taskforce
James Manyika, Senior Vice President in Research, Technology and Society at Google
Jack Clark, Co-Founder and Head of Policy at Anthropic and publisher of Import AI
Jeffrey Kessler, Under Secretary for Industry and Security, U.S. Commerce Department
Jess Whittlestone, Lead of AI Policy at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience
John Honovich, Founder of IPVM
Joshua Kushner, Founder and managing partner, Thrive Capital
Joy Buolamwini, Founder and Artist-in-Chief at the Algorithmic Justice League
Kelly McKernan, Artist
Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission
Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator, Tennessee
Megan Garcia, Activist against chatbot harms
Meredith Whittaker, President
of Signal
Milagros Miceli, Founder, Data Workers' Inquiry
Nina Jankowicz, Vice President at the Centre for Information Resilience
Oliver Ilott, Director, U.K. AI Security Institute
Omar Al Olama, Minister of Artificial Intelligence for UAE
Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT and Innovation, Rwanda
Peter Kyle, U.K. Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
Peter Thiel, Partner, Founders Fund
Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers
Richard Mathenge, Organizer of the African Content Moderators Union
Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani, Co-Founders of Wadhwani AI
Sarah Chander, Senior Policy Advisor for European Digital Rights
Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, National security adviser, UAE; chair, G42
Sneha Revanur, Founder and President of Encode Justice
Stuart Russell, Co-founder, International Association for Safe and Ethical AI
Ted Lieu, U.S. Congress Representative
Tristan Harris, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Humane Technology
Verity Harding, Director of the AI and Geopolitics Project at Cambridge University Bennett Institute
Thinkers
Abeba Birhane, Cognitive Scientist
Anton Korinek, Professor, The University of Virginia
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor, Professor and Doctoral Candidate at Princeton University, authors of AI Snake Oil
Albert Gu, Assistant Professor in Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University and Co-founder of Cartesia
Amanda Askell, Member of technical staff at Anthropic
Amba Kak, Co-executive Director at AI Now Institute
Andrej Karpathy, Founder of Eureka Labs
Andrew Yao, Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University
Ben Zhao, Inventor at Nightshade
Benjamin Rosman, Founding director, MIND Institute
Beth Barnes, Founder and Head of Research at Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR)
Chinasa T. Okolo, Fellow at Brookings Institution
Chris Olah, Co-founder of Anthropic
Cynthia Breazeal, Dean for digital learning, MIT
Daniel Kokotajlo, Former Governance Researcher at OpenAI
Dávid Jancsó, Film editor
Dwarkesh Patel, Host of the Dwarkesh Podcast
Emily M. Bender, Professor at the University of Washington
Ethan Mollick, Author of Co-Intelligence
Fei-Fei Li,
Co-director, Stanford HAI and CEO, World Labs
I often tell my students not to be misled by the name 'artificial intelligence'; there is nothing artificial about it. AI is made by humans, intended to behave by humans, and, ultimately, to impact humans' lives and human society.
Geoffrey Hinton, Emeritus Professor at the University of Toronto and Nobel laureate
The idea that we're going to be replaced as the apex intelligence is just very hard to get your head around.
Geoffrey Irving, Research Director at U.K. AI Safety Institute
Hartmut Neven, Founder and lead, Google Quantum AI
Heidy Khlaaf, Chief AI scientist, AI Now Institute
Helen Toner, Former OpenAI board member
Ilya Sutskever, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at OpenAI
Inioluwa Deborah Raji, Fellow at the Mozilla Foundation
Iason Gabriel, Research scientist at Google DeepMind
Jakub Pachocki, Chief scientist, OpenAI
Jan Leike, Alignment Science Co-Lead at Anthropic
Jared Kaplan, Co-founder and chief science officer, Anthropic
Jeffrey Dean, Chief scientist, Google
Joanne Jang, Head of model behavior, OpenAI
Josh Woodward, VP, Google Labs and Gemini
Kalika Bali, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India
Karen Hao, Author
Kate Crawford, Professor at USC Annenberg and Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research
Katja Grace, Co-founder and lead researcher at AI Impacts
Kyle Fish, Model welfare lead, Anthropic
Latanya Sweeney, Professor, Harvard University
Margaret Mitchell, Chief AI Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face
Marius Hobbhahn, Co-founder and CEO, Apollo Research
Max Tegmark, Co-Founder and President, Future of Life Institute
Miles Congreve, Chief scientific officer, Isomorphic Labs
Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Patrick Lewis, Director of Machine Learning at Cohere
Paul Christiano, Founder of the Alignment Research Center
Paul Scharre, Executive Vice President at the Center for a New American Security and author of Four Battlegrounds
Pushmeet Kohli, Vice President of Research for Google DeepMind
Pliny the Liberator, Digital jailbreaker
Pope Leo XIV, Leader, Catholic Church
Ray Kurzweil, Author and Principal Researcher and AI Visionary at Google and author of Singularity
Regina Barzilay, Professor, MIT
Rumman Chowdhury, CEO and Co-Founder of Humane Intelligence
Ryoji Ikeda, Artist
Shakir Mohamed, Research Director at Google DeepMind and Co-Founder of the Deep Learning Indaba
Shane Legg, Co-Founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind
Stuart Russell, Professor at the University of California at Berkeley
Timnit Gebru, Founder and Executive Director at the Distributed AI Research Institute
Xue Lan, Dean, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta
and Turing Award winner
There are a lot of people that say AI is not safe. But they are naive. They have no idea. It's a complicated engineering problem that we haven't even begun to solve because we don't even have a good design for a superintelligent AI system yet.
Yejin Choi, Professor at the University of Washington
Yi Zeng, Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Director at Mila Quebec AI Institute
Links
TIME Magazine:
- time.com/collection/time100-ai-2025
- time.com/collection/time100-ai-2024
- time.com/collection/time100-ai-2023