Time magazine has compiled a list of the 100 most influential people in the field of SI

Time magazine has released its list of the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence (AI).

The publication says the 2026 list "reflects the rapidly evolving state of the field." It includes founders and researchers from major AI companies, as well as active critics of various aspects of this technology. Time magazine has been compiling a list of the most influential people in the field of artificial intelligence since 2023.

Time divided all participants in the list into four main categories:

1. The **"Leaders"** category includes OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Anthropic founders Dario and Daniela Amodei, as well as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

2. **Innovators** include American actor, director and founder of InterPositive, a startup focused on the use of artificial intelligence in cinema, Ben Affleck, and Chinese founder of Moonshot AI, Yan Zhilin.

3. **Shapers** include actress Paris Hilton (for her fight against deepfakes), American politician Bernie Sanders (for his criticism of the negative impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market and society as a whole), and investor and co-chair of the US President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology David Sachs.

4. **Thinkers** include Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of OpenAI and creator of Safe Superintelligence, a startup focused on the development of safe superintelligence; Mira Murati, founder of Thinking Machines, a startup focused on the development of artificial intelligence and its interaction with humans; and Josh Parker, director of sustainability at Nvidia Corporation.