Times Magazine Spurns Musk From AI List: Instead Scarlett Johansson Made It!

This year, the second annual TIME100 AI edition magazine highlighted leading CEOs. Several renowned tech leaders as well as a few unexpected personalities have appeared on the decorum. However, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is out of the picture.

Times Magazine spurns Musk from AI list, but several unexpected personalities have appeared on the list. The 2024 Time Magazine cover saw 18 AI leaders, topped by Nvidia boss Jensen Huang.

However, the most surprising member in the TIME AI list was actress Scarlett Johansson who is mostly known for her role as Black Widow.

Moreover, we can also see Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and several other founders and influencers in the fast-growing field.

Time Magazine’s Fault? Owned By Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Now

The more-than-century-old magazine is owned by Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff, whose software company has been one of the big investors in the AI startup Anthropic, which set up a $500 million AI fund to back emerging companies.

“Disclosures are made throughout the TIME100 AI list in instances of companies featured and funded by Salesforce Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Salesforce, where TIME’s owner and co-chair serves as CEO,” Time said in the statement to The Post.

Times Magazine Spurns Musk From AI List. Image Credit: X.

However, the head-scratching decision to snub the Tesla and SpaceX founder stirred an uproar on social media. Did Times Magazine spurns Musk from AI list knowingly?

One source claimed that Time Magazine was “biased and devoid of integrity”. Also, they mentioned about having “a personal vendetta against him.”

In 2016, the billionaire cofounded Neuralink, which, this year drew worldwide attention after successfully implanting a brain chip into a paralyzed patient named Noland Arbaugh. The patient was then able to browse the web and play online games with his mind.

Social media users were equally baffled by the addition to the list of Johansson, (who reportedly wrestled with OpenAI over using her voice to train a chatbot without permission), along with other public figures such as Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor, and YouTube personality Marques Brownlee.

Musk’s rivals Were Also On The List

Musk himself brought this week online Colossus, the world’s most potent Nvidia GPU supercomputer, and yet Times Magazine spurns Musk from AI list. Isn’t that disappointing?

Putting Elon Musk into perspective, at least dominance-wise, on this list were Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella. Dominating the world of AI this year, 2024, has been the emergence of startup labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic and their rivals—a fact noted by critics and champions alike.

This year’s list offers examples of the possibilities for AI when it moves out of the lab and into the world. The very moment it does not stop developing, new leaders emerge. To end on this note: “Every person on this top 100 list, if asked, would say Elon should be on this list,” one user posted on X.