NY Mag profiles the 26 quietly powerful people shaping the future of AI
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-11-03
New York magazine's "Power Issue" profiles 26 engineers, founders, and thinkers shaping AI's future, arguing the industry has minted a new power structure: a handful of private companies wield nation-state-level influence and largely govern themselves. It names Sam Altman and Dario Amodei racing to AGI while lobbying Trump on regulation, with Jensen Huang and David Sacks pushing a different line.
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