Sam Altman, Elon Musk to actor Ben Affleck are included in the TIME100 AI 2026, a list of 100 people who are considered the most influential in the development and direction of artificial intelligence or AI in the world.<\/p>\n
Anadolu Agency, quoted Thursday, August 27, reported that the fourth annual list of TIME not only contains top technology company executives. Researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers, labor activists, and creative industry figures are also included amid debates about the economic and social impact of AI.<\/p>\n
TIME divided the 100 names into four categories, namely Leaders, Innovators, Shapers, and Thinkers.<\/p>\n
The Leaders category includes Chief Research Officer OpenAI Mark Chen, CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman. There is also SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Anthropic founder Dario and Daniela Amodei, IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna, and ByteDance Chairman and CEO Liang Rubo.<\/p>\n
A number of figures who support AI infrastructure also fall into this category. They include Broadcom CEO Hock Tan, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison, CoreWeave founder and CEO Michael Intrator, and SMIC Co-CEO Liang Mong Song.<\/p>\n
The Innovators category includes people who develop new applications and approaches in AI, such as OpenEvidence founder Daniel Nadler, Cursor CEO Michael Truell, Moonshot AI CEO Yang Zhilin, Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar, and Cerebras Systems founder and CEO Andrew Feldman.<\/p>\n
The impact of AI on the creative industry also has a place. TIME included actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck in the Innovators category along with Suno’s founder and CEO Mikey Shulman and Tarteel’s founder and CTO Mohamed Moussa.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in the Shapers category. One of the founders of the Creators Coalition on AI, he encourages greater involvement of artists and the public in determining how AI is developed and used, including protection for creators.<\/p>\n
The same category also includes the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union or ITU Doreen Bogdan-Martin. ITU is a special body of the United Nations that, among other things, handles digital gaps and expands participation in AI development.<\/p>\n
TIME Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs said this year’s list illustrates an AI world that is increasingly “exploding and divisive”.<\/p>\n
He alluded to a number of developments, ranging from Musk’s move to bring a leading AI company to the public market, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s dispute with the Pentagon, Larry Ellison’s race to build data centers, to China’s AI model Moonshot AI, which on several occasions has been known to outperform advanced competitors from the US.<\/p>\n
Chinese technology figures are also prominent on the list. In addition to Liang Rubo and Yang Zhilin, there are Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu, Zhipu Zhang Peng CEO, AgiBot CEO Deng Taihua and SMIC executive Liang Mong Song.<\/p>\n
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