Zimbabwe-born Google executive James Manyika has been named as one of Time’s 100 most influential people in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Manyika is Senior Vice President, Research, Technology & Society at Google.
He is ranked among a cohort of shapers of the fast-moving and evolving technology.
In its reasoning, Time said:
Few AI leaders are as well-connected, or have as wide a breadth of AI experience, as James Manyika. Google’s senior vice president of research, technology, and society has a Ph.D. in AI from Oxford, served as a tech adviser in the Obama Administration, and was both a visiting scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs and a McKinsey consultant. Now, Manyika, 58, also serves as a vice chair of the National AI Advisory Committee, the federal panel tasked with strategizing AI regulation.
Manyika was born in Harare, went to Prince Edward School, and the University of Zimbabwe, before moving to the USA in the 1990s.
Check out the full Times 100 most influential people in AI list here
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