# Who the most influential people in AI are: roles, birthplaces and ages

From Autumn's research on TIME's 2026 TIME100 AI list (https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/). Updated 2026-10-30. Interactive version: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/backgrounds

## What they do

- Founders: 40 (Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Elon Musk, Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Liang Rubo, Jeff Bezos, Moustapha Cissé, Josh Payne, Larry Ellison, Valerii Borovyk, Ali Ghodsi, Eddie Wu, Michael Intrator, Daniel Nadler, Michael Truell, Azalia Mirhoseini, Anna Goldie, Yang Zhilin, Mohamed Moussa, Brendan Foody, Mikey Shulman, Utkarsh Saxena, Uljan Sharka, Andrew Feldman, Deng Taihua, Zhang Peng, Winston Weinberg, Suchi Saria, Vivek Raghavan, Hon Weng Chong, Xiao Hong, Mira Murati, Chad Edwards, Garrett Lord, Max Spero, Ilya Sutskever, Fei-Fei Li, Yann LeCun, Chelsea Finn)
- Executives: 19 (Mark Chen, Arvind Krishna, Lila Ibrahim, A.G. Sulzberger, Hock Tan, He Tingbo, Joëlle Pineau, Matt Garman, Elizabeth Reid, Nigel Vaz, Liang Mong Song, Stella Li, Sanjay Mehrotra, Jack Clark, Josh Parker, Joe Dominguez, Marian Croak, Ravi Kumar S, Alex Rives)
- Advocates and nonprofits: 12 (Danielle Boyer, Max Tegmark, Sunny Gandhi, Erin Brockovich, Bernadette Meehan, Angle Bush, Alessandra Sala, Philip Colligan, Meetali Jain, Liz Shuler, Beth Barnes, Veronyka Gimenes)
- Government and global bodies: 8 (Arvind Raman, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Karine Perset, Darío Gil, Emil Michael, Wafa Ben-Hassine, Bernie Sanders, David Sacks)
- Actors, writers and artists: 8 (Ben Affleck, Coerte Voorhees, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrea Bartz, Hank Green, Ayoung Kim, Andy Masley, Paris Hilton)
- Researchers: 8 (Peter Steinberger, Anima Anandkumar, Newton Campbell Jr., Daniela Rus, David Autor, Zhou Bowen, Owain Evans, Sanmi Koyejo)
- Investors: 5 (Pat Grady, Alfred Lin, Andy Konwinski, Sarah Guo, Geoff Ralston)

## Where they were born (63 with a published birthplace, 35 outside the United States)

- United States: 28 (Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Lila Ibrahim, A.G. Sulzberger, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, Matt Garman, Ben Affleck, Michael Truell, Coerte Voorhees, Andrew Feldman, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Andrea Bartz, Hank Green, Andy Konwinski, Paris Hilton, Erin Brockovich, Wafa Ben-Hassine, Bernadette Meehan, Bernie Sanders, Angle Bush, Joe Dominguez, Liz Shuler, Geoff Ralston, Marian Croak)
- China: 7 (Liang Rubo, He Tingbo, Stella Li, Yang Zhilin, Xiao Hong, Fei-Fei Li, Zhou Bowen)
- India: 5 (Arvind Krishna, Arvind Raman, Anima Anandkumar, Sanjay Mehrotra, Ravi Kumar S)
- Canada: 2 (Joëlle Pineau, Daniel Nadler)
- Iran: 2 (Ali Ghodsi, Azalia Mirhoseini)
- South Africa: 2 (Elon Musk, David Sacks)
- Taiwan: 2 (Liang Mong Song, Alfred Lin)
- Albania: 1 (Mira Murati)
- Australia: 1 (Josh Payne)
- Austria: 1 (Peter Steinberger)
- Brazil: 1 (Veronyka Gimenes)
- Egypt: 1 (Emil Michael)
- France: 1 (Yann LeCun)
- Italy: 1 (Alessandra Sala)
- Malaysia: 1 (Hock Tan)
- Romania: 1 (Daniela Rus)
- Russia: 1 (Ilya Sutskever)
- Senegal: 1 (Moustapha Cissé)
- South Korea: 1 (Ayoung Kim)
- Spain: 1 (Darío Gil)
- Sweden: 1 (Max Tegmark)
- United Kingdom: 1 (Jack Clark)

## When they were born (47 with a published birth year, median 1976)

- Bernie Sanders: 1941-09-08
- Larry Ellison: 1944-08-17
- Liang Mong Song: 1952
- Marian Croak: 1955-05-14
- Sanjay Mehrotra: 1958-06-27
- Erin Brockovich: 1960-06-22
- Yann LeCun: 1960-07-08
- Arvind Krishna: 1962-11-23
- Jeff Bezos: 1964-01-12
- Doreen Bogdan-Martin: 1966
- Max Tegmark: 1967-05-05
- David Autor: 1967
- He Tingbo: 1969
- Michael Intrator: 1969
- Stella Li: 1969
- Liz Shuler: 1970
- Elon Musk: 1971-06-28
- Ben Affleck: 1972-08-15
- Alfred Lin: 1972
- Emil Michael: 1972
- David Sacks: 1972-05-25
- Joëlle Pineau: 1974
- Eddie Wu: 1975
- Fei-Fei Li: 1976-07-03
- Zhou Bowen: 1976
- Deng Taihua: 1977
- Ali Ghodsi: 1978
- Ayoung Kim: 1979
- A.G. Sulzberger: 1980-08-05
- Hank Green: 1980-05-05
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 1981-02-17
- Paris Hilton: 1981-02-17
- Dario Amodei: 1983
- Liang Rubo: 1983
- Daniel Nadler: 1983
- Andy Konwinski: 1983-10-15
- Sam Altman: 1985-04-22
- Peter Steinberger: 1986-05-22
- Ilya Sutskever: 1986
- Greg Brockman: 1987-11-29
- Daniela Amodei: 1987
- Mira Murati: 1988-12-16
- Yang Zhilin: 1992
- Uljan Sharka: 1992
- Chelsea Finn: 1992-10-08
- Josh Payne: 1993
- Xiao Hong: 1993