The top 12 people in artificial-intelligence policy, ethics, and research
- Insider has compiled a list of 100 people at the forefront of artificial intelligence.
- The list spans several industries, from hardware to ethics.
- See who made the list for policy, research, and ethics, and learn how they're making an impact.
Emily Bender: Bender, a linguist who teaches at the University of Washinton, has significantly contributed to our understanding of how large language models like ChatGPT process language and their limitations in processing non-English languages. Bender has urged companies and policymakers to focus on the potential dangers of AI – harms such as the possibility of human-sounding AI manipulating users – and possible solutions.
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Jack Clark: Clark is a co-founder of AI startup Anthropic, which has raised over $5 billion, including a $4 billion check from Amazon in September. Before starting Anthropic, he was the policy director at OpenAI. Clark said he's read thousands of AI research papers and uses his knowledge to discuss the future of AI with world leaders and other policymakers. He also writes a popular newsletter called Import AI. "The greatest challenge of the 21st century is to make an increasingly fast-moving technical world 'legible' to a large number of people," he wrote in his Import AI bio. "Things will be weird. Be not afraid."
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