Most Influential Personalities in Artificial Intellinece (AI) Domain

About the List noteworthy AI personalities

Discover the pioneers and trailblazers shaping the future of Artificial Intelligence. We have gathered the thinkers, shapers, and innovators in this field who have made their mark by launching successful AI startups, supporting renowned brands like Google and Microsoft, and conducting actionable research to solve real-world problems with AI algorithms and AI tools. Explore the minds driving AI’s evolution and influencing the technology that is transforming our world.

Dario Amodei

CEO

Anthropic

Daniela Amodei

President

Anthropic

Sam Altman

CEO

OpenAI

Demis Hassabis

CEO & Co-Founder

Google DeepMind

Robin Li

CEO, Chairman & Co-Founder

Baidu

Clément Delangue

CEO & Co-Founder

Hugging Face

Lila Ibrahim

COO

Google DeepMind

Elon Musk

Founder

xAI

Raquel Urtasun

CEO and Founder

Waabi

Alex Karp

Co-Founder and CEO

Palantir Technologies

Reid Hoffman

Entrepreneur and Investor

Greg Brockman

Co-Founder and President

OpenAI

Marc Andreessen

Entrepreneur and Investor

Sandra Rivera

General Manager of Data Center and AI Group

Intel

Aidan Gomez

CEO and Co-Founder

Cohere

Daniel Gross

Entrepreneur and Investor

Kai-Fu Lee

Chairman and CEO

Sinovation Ventures

Jaime Teevan

Chief Scientist

Microsoft

Andrew Ng

Founder

DeepLearning.AI

Kevin Scott

CTO and Executive Vice President of AI

Microsoft

Jensen Huang

CEO, President and Co-Founder

Nvidia

Clara Shih

CEO

Salesforce AI

Alexandr Wang

CEO and Founder

Scale AI

Mustafa Suleyman

CEO and Co-Founder

Inflection AI

Marc Raibert

Executive Director

Boston Dynamics AI Institute

Pelonomi Moiloa

CEO and Co-Founder

Lelapa AI

Neal Khosla

CEO and Co-Founder

Curai

Noam Shazeer

CEO and Co-Founder

Character.AI

Cristóbal Valenzuela

CEO and Co-Founder

Runway

Manu Chopra

CEO

Karya

Richard Socher

CEO and Founder

You.com

Yann LeCun

Chief AI Scientist

Meta

James Manyika

SVP Research, Technology & Society

Google

Kate Kallot

CEO and Founder

Amini

Eric Schmidt

Co-Founder

Schmidt Futures

Ziad Obermeyer

Associate Professor

University of California, Berkeley

Alison Darcy

Founder and President

Woebot Health

Anna Makanju

Vice President of Global Affairs

OpenAI

Nathaniel Manning

COO and Co-founder

Kettle

Tushita Gupta

CTO and Co-Founder

Refiberd

Andrew Hopkins

CEO and Founder

Exscientia

Keith Dreyer

Chief Data Science Officer

Mass General Brigham

Nancy Xu

CEO and Founder

Moonhub

Alondra Nelson

Researcher

Institute for Advanced Study

Ian Hogarth

Chair

U.K.’s Frontier AI Taskforce

Audrey Tang

Minister of Digital Affairs

Taiwan

Meredith Whittaker

President

Signal

Jack Clark

Co-Founder and Head of Policy

Anthropic

Omar Al Olama

Minister of Artificial Intelligence

UAE

Margrethe Vestager

Executive Vice President

European Commission

Anna Eshoo

Representative

U.S. Congress

Richard Mathenge

Organizer

African Content Moderators Union

Sneha Revanur

Founder and President

Encode Justice

Tristan Harris

Co-Founder and Executive Director

Center for Humane Technology

Joy Buolamwini

Founder and Artist-in-Chief

Algorithmic Justice League

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Co-Founder

Machine Intelligence Research Institute

Verity Harding

Director

AI & Geopolitics Project, Cambridge University

Ted Lieu

Representative

U.S. Congress

Sarah Chander

Senior Policy Advisor

European Digital Rights

Nina Jankowicz

Vice President

Centre for Information Resilience

Romesh Wadhwani

Co-Founder

Wadhwani AI

Sunil Wadhwani

Co-Founder

Wadhwani AI

Dan Hendrycks

Executive Director

Center for AI Safety

Elham Tabassi

Associate Director of Emerging Technologies

NIST

Jess Whittlestone

Head of AI Policy

Centre for Long-Term Resilience

John Honovich

Founder

IPVM-

Geoffrey Hinton

Emeritus Professor

University of Toronto

Fei-Fei Li

Professor

Stanford University

Abeba Birhane

Cognitive Scientist

Mozilla

Shane Legg

Co-Founder and Chief AGI Scientist

Google DeepMind

Rumman Chowdhury

CEO and Co-Founder

Humane Intelligence.

Yi Zeng

Professor

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Timnit Gebru

Founder and Executive Director

Distributed AI Research Institute

Kate Crawford

Professor

USC Annenberg & Microsoft Research.

Pushmeet Kohli

Vice President Research

Google DeepMind.

Ilya Sutskever

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist

OpenAI

Yejin Choi

Professor

University of Washington

Inioluwa Deborah Raji

Fellow

Mozilla Foundation

Max Tegmark

Co-Founder and President

Future of Life Institute

Yoshua Bengio

Scientific Director

Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms

Emily M. Bender

Professor

University of Washington

Margaret Mitchell

Chief AI Ethics Scientist

Hugging Face

Paul Scharre

Executive Vice President

Center for a New American Security

Jan Leike

Superalignment Co-Lead

OpenAI

Paul Christiano

Founder

Alignment Research Center

Kalika Bali

Principal Researcher

Microsoft Research India

Stuart Russell

Professor

University of California, Berkeley

Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor

Professor & Doctoral Candidate

Princeton University

Shakir Mohamed

Research Director

Google DeepMind

Lilly Wachowski

Filmmaker

Kelly McKernan

Artist

Linda Dounia Rebeiz

Artist

Stephanie Dinkins

Artist

Sougwen Chung

Artist

Charlie Brooker

Writer

Holly Herndon

Musician

Ted Chiang

Writer

Grimes

Musician