German computer scientist Jürgen Schmidhuber has often argued that he and other researchers have not received adequate recognition for their contributions to deep learning.
Rosalind Picard, a professor at MIT Media Lab, recently faced controversy over alleged discriminatory remarks made during a keynote speech at NeurIPS 2024 towards Chinese students.
Bhavish Aggarwal, founder of Ola’s AI chatbot Krutrim, made several notable statements about AI this year that sparked discussions.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently made several notable statements about AI and its potential risks.
Mira Murati, former chief technology officer of OpenAI, found herself at the centre of controversy in March regarding the training data for Sora, OpenAI’s new text-to-video AI model.
Hoan Ton-That, CEO and co-founder of Clearview AI, remained a controversial figure in the AI industry due to his company’s facial recognition technology and its practices.
Earlier this year, Scarlett Johansson became embroiled in a major controversy regarding the alleged unauthorised use of her voice by OpenAI in ChatGPT.
Earlier this year, Prabhakar Raghavan, Google’s chief technologist, faced criticism over the company’s Gemini AI image generation feature.
Elon Musk recently filed a preliminary injunction to stop OpenAI from switching to a for-profit model.
The controversy regarding their facial recognition tech led to a €30.5 million fine from the Dutch Data Protection Authority and warnings of additional penalties for Clearview AI.