TIME Reveals the 2025 TIME100 AI List of the World’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence

Today, TIME reveals the third annual TIME100 AI list, recognizing the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence.  The 2025 TIME100 AI issue includes a worldwide cover, featuring a photo illustration by artist and list-maker Refik Anadol. For the cover, TIME provided Anadol with more than 5,000 past TIME covers, allowing his AI to reimagine what the cover would look like for the TIME100 AI issue. The resulting abstract visualization represents the AI “dreaming” about a century of TIME’s visual history, Anandol tells TIME. Read TIME’s interview with Anadol on the creative process here.  Published alongside the TIME100 AI are in-depth profiles and interviews with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, Asteria Film Co. co-founder Natasha Lyonne, OpenAI Head of model behavior Joanne Jang and IASEAI co-founder Stuart Russell.  –See the complete 2025 TIME100 AI list: time.com/time100ai  –See the TIME100 AI cover featuring a photo illustration by Refik Anadol: here To assemble the list, TIME’s editors and reporters spent months researching candidates for the list, including soliciting recommendations from industry leaders and dozens of expert sources. The result is a list of 100 leaders, innovators, shapers, and thinkers who are building our AI future.  Of the TIME100 AI list, TIME Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs writes: “We launched this list in 2023, in the wake of OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT, the moment many became aware of AI’s potential to compete with and exceed the capabilities of humans. Our aim was to show how the direction AI travels will be determined not by machines but by people—innovators, advocates, artists, and everyone with a stake in the future of this technology.” Read more here.  See the full TIME100 AI list here: time.com/time100ai   ‘TIME100 IMPACT DINNER’ TO RECOGNIZE LEADERS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF AI: TIME will host the TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of AI to spotlight leaders, innovators, and visionaries shaping the future of artificial intelligence, including those featured on the 2025 TIME100 AI list, on October 13th in San Francisco. The event will feature conversations exploring AI’s impact across industries and society with list-makers who are shaping the future of this transformative technology.  The TIME100 Impact Dinner: Leaders Shaping the Future of AI is presented by Premier Partner PepsiCo and Signature Partners Cognizant, General Catalyst and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc..   ###