Time’s 100 most important people in AI focuses on major CEOs… Plus Grimes

A good way to understand the whole current debate around AI is to get to know the people involved. Time magazine, in all its wisdom, now has its own list 100 figures most important to the AI ​​debate to help us all get acquainted the players. Have There are many AI founders above there, but despite that, there’s still a good showing of people on the edge can become main character in AI era. Oh, and there’s Grimes.

Lame pantselectronic list is quite widespread and attracts those actively involved in AI and the discussions around it, as well as those on the periphery who could be the catalyst to bring AI even more mainstream—or pull it back to Earth. Physicalke all Time’s list, it has a pound Bend company. The “Leaders” category is organized by major technology companies, with the leaders of Anthropic Dario and Daniela Amodei lead the section thanks to the person standing last names starting with the letter “A.” List of trying offers Anthropic’s “Constitution” for AI leads the discussion of moral development, although its main thrust is just put ‘balcony’ on AI modelssomething doesn’t really always work for even the most complex models.

Most of the people on the list are CEOs – 43 people in total. The usual suspects are here. You have OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman along with company president Greg Brockman. Only oneAll the super-rich investors like Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, along with big tech heads like Microsoft chief scientist Jaime Teevan and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Oh, and of course, the Open earlyAI investors and now AI riding the coattails Elon Musk is over there playing tag with her newborn baby start xAI.

But there’s also room for pop culture figures on Time’s big list. Musical artist Grimes takes on the lead role because she has become scarecrow of Compose songs using AI communication and opens an AI model of her voice for everyone to use. She even announced that she would create an album in which she goes head-to-head with the “Grimes-the-mind-AI Collective.” Then there is other artists such as Holly Herndon, a singer-songwriter, who has worked longer than Grimes created music-based music hottest technology at the moment. She also established a template that allows artists to opt out of having their work used to train AI datasets, which some companies like Stability AI and Hugging Face have followed.

Time has also criticized Rootport, the anonymous creator of the title comic Cyberpunk: Peach John, as an “Innovator” in the field of AI. The character has attracted controversy for openly using the AI ​​art creation tool Midjourney to create artwork for the manga. Indeed, the creator frankly said that he did not know how to draw and boasted that his work took only six weeks to complete. Even though the work was published by professional publisher Shinchosha, it’s hard to call anything Rootport has done “innovation.” Other artists have tried creating graphic novels using AIbut they were not fortunate enough to receive wider recognition for this very work of art, especially from US copyright law. On the other hand, yes people like Kelly McKernan in the “Shapers” category, who made headlines earlier this year for being one of the few artists v. Midjourney, et al AI and DeviantArt stabilityfor using his art in AI training data

This list also finds some pretty interesting people in the mix Entertaiment industry. There’s the award-winning Hugo and Nebula author Ted Chiang, but also Black mirror creator Charlie Brooker. Lilly Wachowski, renowned co-director of Matrix, here. But this list doesn’t just mention the work of her and her sister Lana to popularize one dark future war with intelligent machines, she is also used as a figurehead for ongoing strikes by SAG-AFTRA and WGA Hollywoodespecially with her early criticize studios use AI “as a tool to create wealth” at the expense of artists and culture at large.

And then there are the usual hordes of AI critics who appear. Featuring Margaret Mitchell, chief AI ethics scientist at Hugging Face and founder of the Timnit Gebru Distributed AI Research Institute. Both are famous AI ethicists who worked for Google before being fired in a larger conversation about AI creating harmful content. There’s also University of Washington computational linguistics professor Emily Bender, an online commentator who regularly debunks the hype surrounding AI through her “Random parrot” dissertation.

There’s still some room for lesser-known characters. Sneha Revanur, 18, founder of Encode Justice, helped plead with the Biden administration to work quickly on AI regulations. Kate Crawford, author and professor at USC Annenberg, who wrote in her book AI Atlas on labor, environmental and human costs in the race AI also gained a place. If there were a big Atlas of all the characters caught up in the maelstrom of the current AI debate, Time might be a good place to start, but perhaps it would be better to analyze what What do people without billions of dollars in their back pockets have to say about transformative technology.