The Most Influential AI Thought-Leaders and Practitioners

by Peter High, series on Forbes.com

I would like to introduce a series focused on artificial intelligence. Advances in artificial intelligence are rapidly redefining everything from how we work to how we learn to how we treat diseases. The expertise and background of the individuals interviewed in this series is varied, ranging from startup founders and corporate executives, to academic researchers and leaders of not-for-profit organizations. That said, they share a commonality: they are the world’s foremost leaders in the field of artificial intelligence.

• Sebastian Thrun, Co-Founder and CEO of Udacity
• Mike Rhodin, SVP of Watson Business Development at IBM
• Scott Phoenix, Co-Founder of Vicarious
• Antoine Blondeau, CEO of Sentient Technologies
• Greg Brockman, Co-Founder of Open AI
• Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
• Neil Jacobstein, Artificial Intelligence Chair at Singularity University
• Geoff Hinton, Professor at the University of Toronto and Researcher at Google
• Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University
• Jeff Dean, Google Senior Fellow in the Systems and Infrastructure Group and Head of Google Brain
• Mike Schroepfer, Chief Technology Officer of Facebook
• Daniela Rus, Director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• Maran Nelson, Co-Founder and CEO of Clara Labs
• Andrew Ng, Co-Founder of Coursera
• Andrew Moore, Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
• Yoshua Bengio, Co-Founder of Element AI and Professor of Computer Science at The University of Montreal
• Kai-Fu Lee, Founder of Sinovation Ventures
• Max Tegmark, MIT Professor and author of Life 3.0