AI presents an ethical minefield that's pushed researchers, tech companies, and policymakers into opposing camps.
Our list features people who have divergent views on how AI should be developed, from Shane Legg, a cofounder of Google DeepMind who's working to develop artificial general intelligence, to the researchers Emily M. Bender and Timnit Gebru, the coauthors of the watershed paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots."
"The problem is that algorithms aren't the kind of thing that can have accountability — only people can do that," Bender told Business Insider via email. "And 'intelligence' is not a good cover term for those concepts, nor a neutral way to refer to this tech."
Insider identified the top 100 people who make AI intelligent. Here are our picks for policy, ethics, and research.