Critics have come for Time magazine after it snubbed billionaire tech guru and artificial intelligence financier, Elon Musk from its annual list of the “100 Most Influential People in AI” but put Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson on this year’s cover.
The second annual TIME100 AI edition, also highlighted leading CEOs, including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, as well as founders and influencers in AI.
Musk's omission is bizarre given that he launched Grok, an AI associated with X formerly known as Twitter .
Musk also founded Neuralink in 2016, which made headlines early this year when it successfully implanted a brain chip in a paralyzed patient, allowing him to browse the web and play Internet games with his mind. And Just this week, Musk brought Colossus, the world’s most powerful Nvidia GPU supercomputer – online.
Social media users also questioned the inclusion on the list of Johansson Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor and YouTuber Marques Brownlee.
The list also included Musk rivals like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg as well as Google boss Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Times magazine is now owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, whose software company has been a major investor in Anthropic and OpenAI (rivals of Musk's Grok) creating a $500 million AI fund to back emerging companies.
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“Every person on this top 100 list if asked would say Elon should be on this list,” one user posted on X.
Another user said the affront was proof of Time’s “bias and lack of integrity” and “their personal vendetta against him.”
“I thought it was cute that Elon Musk wasn’t on the cover of Time’s 100 most influential people in AI,” another social media user posted on X. “I had to check for myself when I heard he didn’t make the list at all. My f*cking car drives itself lol.”
Another user said the affront was proof of Time’s “bias and lack of integrity” and “their personal vendetta against him.”
“I thought it was cute that Elon Musk wasn’t on the cover of Time’s 100 most influential people in AI,” another social media user posted on X. “I had to check for myself when I heard he didn’t make the list at all. My f*cking car drives itself lol.”
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