Heroes of AI
The pioneers, researchers, and leaders shaping the future of artificial intelligence.

Alan Turing
Mathematician and Computer Scientist
University of Manchester

Demis Hassabis
CEO and Co-Founder
Google DeepMind

Fei-Fei Li
Sequoia Professor of Computer Science; Co-Director
Stanford University; Stanford Human-Centered AI Institute

Gary Marcus
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
New York University

Geoffrey Hinton
Emeritus Professor; Former VP and Engineering Fellow
University of Toronto; Google

Joy Buolamwini
Founder
Algorithmic Justice League

Kate Crawford
Senior Principal Researcher; Professor
Microsoft Research; USC Annenberg

Marietje Schaake
International Policy Director; Policy Fellow
Stanford HAI; Marietje Schaake International

Meredith Whittaker
President
Signal Foundation

Stuart Russell
Professor of Computer Science
UC Berkeley

Timnit Gebru
Executive Director
Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)

Yann LeCun
Chief AI Scientist
Meta AI

Yoshua Bengio
Full Professor; Scientific Director
Université de Montréal; Mila – Quebec AI Institute