NY Mag profiles the few dozen quietly powerful people shaping AI's future
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-11-03
New York Magazine's power issue argues AI has minted a new power structure: a handful of private companies command the wealth of small nation-states with mostly self-governance, and dozens of employees are on the verge of becoming centimillionaires deciding where their resources go. The issue profiles the engineers, founders and thinkers shaping the field, including the Altman–Amodei AGI race and their lobbying of President Trump over regulation, versus Jensen Huang and David Sacks advocating a light touch to preserve US dominance. The poster adds a joke framing it as "the last thing a rogue AI swarm sees before shutdown."
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