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TIME100 AI 2026: Meetali Jain
When she founded the nonprofit Tech Justice Law in 2023, Meetali Jain did not plan to become the go-to attorney for people suing companies over harm from AI chatbots—but...
TIME100 AI 2026: Max Tegmark
Max Tegmark still believes the AI industry isn’t doing enough to protect us from the potential harms of its increasingly powerful models. The MIT professor is the founder of...
TIME100 AI 2026: Yann LeCun
Mark Zuckerberg called Yann LeCun one Sunday last November. Word had gotten out that LeCun, who built Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, was leaving to start his own...
TIME100 AI 2026: Veronyka Gimenes
Veronyka Gimenes wants you to know AI can be used to fight back. In 2025, Gimenes and Amanda Claro, co-founders of the Brazilian advocacy group Código Não Binário, created...
TIME100 AI 2026: David Autor
In February 2024, the MIT economist David Autor first published his most contrarian notion about generative AI—that, “if used well,” it would create jobs and increase pay. It was...
TIME100 AI 2026: Wafa Ben-Hassine
Since stepping into the role of U.N. Human Rights Office’s first chief of digital technology and human rights earlier this year, Wafa Ben-Hassine has been thinking about ways to...
TIME100 AI 2026: Philip Colligan
Philip Colligan’s greatest fear is that parents and educators will treat the AI revolution the way they treated the advent of the Internet—which is to say, they won’t engage...
TIME100 AI 2026: Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt sees his contribution to the AI conversation as a storyteller, helping people understand what widespread adoption of the technology and the current economic structures around it could...
TIME100 AI 2026: Erin Brockovich
Since the release of the 2000 Oscar-winning movie about her, the name Erin Brockovich has been synonymous with grassroots activism against powerful institutions. This year, Brockovich has turned her...
