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pronounced "it people"
the it index · wed · jun 24 · mmxxvi
things change fast.
these are the people worth keeping an eye on.
ai · top 40
- 1·Noam Shazeer87.0main character
noam shazeer keeps getting offered the keys to the kingdom because people trust his hands on the steering wheel
- 2·Aidan Gomez64.5
aidan gomez argues that nations need their own ai infrastructure or risk becoming digitally colonized by foreign powers
- 3↓0.9Peter Thiel59.1
thiel builds invisible infrastructure—from defense drones to secretive networks—that shapes power far from public view
- 4↓0.5Demis Hassabis57.4
demis hassabis dreams in protein folding and singularity timelines while watching his best people walk out the door
- 5↓0.6Adam D'Angelo55.7
adam d'angelo builds knowledge infrastructure while navigating the thornier questions about who gets to shape ai's future
- 6↓1.0Reid Hoffman55.4
reid hoffman bets on ai becoming medicine's thoughtful second opinion rather than its replacement
- 7↑0.5Tim Cook54.6
tim cook navigates apple through supply chain storms while sounding alarms about data weaponization
- 8↓0.5Yann LeCun54.6
yann lecun sounds the alarm on ai's unsustainable economics while building what comes next
- 9·Sam Altman53.6
sam altman builds the ai that hollywood fears and regulators scrutinize, yet everyone still wants a seat at his table
- 10·Jeff Dean53.6
jeff dean quietly steers google's ai ambitions while mentoring the next generation of computer scientists
- 11↑0.6Greg Brockman53.4it-curious
- 12↓1.5Liang Wenfeng53.2
- 13↓0.5Eric Schmidt53.0
- 14·Ray Kurzweil53.0
- 15·Andrew Ng52.8
- 16↑0.7Mira Murati52.3
- 17↑1.0Eliezer Yudkowsky52.2
- 18·Geoffrey Hinton52.1
- 19·Fei-Fei Li51.3
- 20↓0.6Patrick Collison51.3
- 21·Lex Fridman50.3
- 22↑0.5Ilya Sutskever50.1
- 23·Mustafa Suleyman49.8
- 24·Marc Andreessen49.5
- 25·Satya Nadella49.2
- 26·Naval Ravikant49.2
- 27↓1.1Nick Bostrom49.1
- 28↑0.6Mark Zuckerberg48.1
- 29↓0.7Aravind Srinivas47.8
- 30·Ian Goodfellow47.7
- 31·Stuart Russell46.7
- 32·Vinod Khosla46.6
- 33·Yoshua Bengio45.7
- 34↓0.9Sundar Pichai45.0
- 35·Jensen Huang44.6
- 36↓0.5Dario Amodei44.5
- 37↓0.8Larry Page43.9
- 38·Andrej Karpathy43.0
- 39↑1.1Bill Gates42.2
- 40·Elon Musk39.5