TIME100 AI 2026 — The 100 Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence Cover honorees: 🧠 Sam Altman — OpenAI 🧠 Dario Amodei — Anthropic 🧠 Jeff Bezos 🧠 Doreen Bogdan-Martin — Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union 🧠 Marian Croak 🧠 Larry Ellison — Oracle 🧠 Joseph Gordon-Levitt — actor, filmmaker 🧠 Paris Hilton 🧠 Lila Ibrahim 🧠 Arvind Krishna — IBM 🧠 Fei-Fei Li 🧠 Mira Murati — Thinking Machines Lab 🧠 Elon Musk — xAI 🧠 David Sacks 🧠 Liz Shuler — labor leader 🧠 Ilya Sutskever 🧠 Eddie Wu Also named on the list: 🧠 Mark Chen — OpenAI 🧠 Greg Brockman — OpenAI 🧠 Bernie Sanders — U.S. Senator 🧠 Yang Zhilin — Moonshot AI 🧠 Ben Affleck 🧠 Daniel Nadler — OpenEvidence 🧠 Vivek Raghavan — Sarvam AI 🧠 Utkarsh Saxena — Adalat AI 🧠 Sanjay Mehrotra — Micron Technology 🧠 Anima Anandkumar — Caltech 🧠 Arvind Raman — NIST 🧠 Suchi Saria — Bayesian Health 🧠 Sunny Gandhi — Encode 🧠 Meetali Jain — Tech Justice Law Project 🧠 Ravi Kumar S — Cognizant 🧠 Deng Taihua — AGIBOT 🧠 Alessandra Sala — Shutterstock Notably absent from this year's list: Jensen Huang, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Demis Hassabis. Published August 27, 2026. TIME's fourth annual list, divided into four categories: Leaders, Innovators, Shapers, and Thinkers. 📌 Source: TIME.