Zimbabwe-born James Manyika named among Times 100 most influential in AI

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.