Billionaire Elon Musk is among the 100 most influential figures in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, according to Time Magazine’s TIME100 AI list.
Some of the people included in the list were OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, NVIDIA President Jensen Huang, and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.
Musk’s stance in AI
Business tycoon Elon Musk has publicly expressed his skepticism regarding AI development and application. He even called for the industry to temporarily stop AI training, along with other firms.
Ironically, he also seems to support the technology’s advancement.
Musk’s electric automaker, Tesla, is attempting to reach full autonomy with its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving software through AI.
Apart from that, the billionaire has also recently launched its new AI company, xAI. CEO Musk aims to leverage the startup to “understand reality.”
“I think I have been banging the drum on AI safety now for a long time. If I could press pause on AI or advanced AI digital superintelligence, I would. It doesn’t seem like that is realistic. So xAI is essentially going to build an AI, you know, you’ve got to grow an AI in a good way, hopefully.”
Elon Musk stated during the Twitter Spaces
All that said, Time Magazine recognized Elon Musk as one of the “Leaders” in the field of artificial intelligence.
About xAI
xAI is an AI-focused company that primarily aims to “develop the ‘theory of everything’ for large neural networks.”
It consists of 12 members with high expertise in AI development (mostly from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Tesla), including the following: Igor Babuschkin, Manuel Kroiss, Yuhuai (Tony) Wu, Christian Szegedy, Jimmy Ba, Toby Pohlen, Ross Nordeen, Kyle Kosic, Greg Yang, Guodong Zhang, and Zihang Dai.
It aims to tap electric vehicle giant Tesla on AI software and silicon matters. It will also collaborate with Twitter to obtain relevant data to train its systems and develop “maximally curious” products.
Time100 AI list
The list separated the 100 most influential people in AI into four categories, including Leaders, Innovators, Shapers, and Thinkers.
“This doesn’t have to just be a conversation about driving wealth and driving company value. This has to be a conversation about how this technology and how the leaders in the space that Time has identified are going to make the world a safer, better place, and that we could leverage AI to solve, again, some of the biggest challenges.”
Time Chief Executive Officer Jessica Sibley
Below is the full Time100 AI list:
| LEADERS | INNOVATORS | SHAPERS | THINKERS |
| Dario and Daniela Amodei | Ted Chiang | Alondra Nelson | Geoffrey Hinton |
| Sam Altman | Charlie Brooker | Ian Hogarth | Fei-Fei Li |
| Demis Hassabis | Holly Herndon | Audrey Tang | Abeba Birhane |
| Robin Li | Pelonomi Moiloa | Meredith Whittaker | Shane Legg |
| Clément Delangue | Grimes | James Manyika | Rumman Chowdhury |
| Lila Ibrahim | Neal Khosla | Jack Clark | Yi Zeng |
| Elon Musk | Stephanie Dinkins | Anna Makanju | Timnit Gebru |
| Raquel Urtasun | Sougwen Chung | Omar Al Olama | Kate Crawford |
| Alex Karp | Cristóbal Valenzuela | Kelly McKernan | Pushmeet Kohli |
| Reid Hoffman | Lilly Wachowski | Eric Schmidt | Ilya Sutskever |
| Greg Brockman | Manu Chopra | Margrethe Vestager | Yejin Choi |
| Marc Andreessen | Kate Kallot | Anna Eshoo | Yann LeCun |
| Sandra Rivera | Ziad Obermeyer | Richard Mathenge | Inioluwa Deborah Raji |
| Aidan Gomez | Noam Shazeer | Sneha Revanur | Max Tegmark |
| Daniel Gross | Alison Darcy | Tristan Harris | Yoshua Bengio |
| Kai-Fu Lee | Nathaniel Manning | Joy Buolamwini | Emily M. Bender |
| Jaime Teevan | Tushita Gupta | Eliezer Yudkowsky | Margaret Mitchell |
| Andrew Ng | Andrew Hopkins | Verity Harding | Paul Scharre |
| Kevin Scott | Linda Dounia Rebeiz | Ted Lieu | Jan Leike |
| Jensen Huang | Richard Socher | Sarah Chander | Paul Christiano |
| Clara Shih | Keith Dreyer | Nina Jankowicz | Kalika Bali |
| Alexandr Wang | Nancy Xu | Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani | Stuart Russell |
| Mustafa Suleyman | Rootport | Elham Tabassi | Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor |
| Marc Raibert | – | Dan Hendrycks | Shakir Mohamed |
| – | – | Jess Whittlestone | – |
| – | – | John Honovich | – |
See Also:
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- Ark Invest Chief rated AI for Tesla’s FSD tech progress at 4 out of 5
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- Tesla CEO live streams FSD Beta test drive on X
- Billionaire Elon Musk launches AI startup xAI to “understand reality”
Apart from autonomous driving technologies and xAI, Musk is also advancing its AI development with his Optimus bot project and Neuralink. All that said, it is unsurprising that the business tycoon got on the Time100 AI list.
You can read Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential figures here.
