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Even Hasina suggests Bangladesh exists in a gray zone: "Democracy has a different definition that varies country to country." WORLD SHEIKH HASINA FLOATS INTO THE RECEPTION room of her official residence swathed in a luxurious silk sari, the personification of an iron fist in velvet glove. Hasina was not invited to the latest two U.S.-hosted Summit for Democracy gatherings, and in May the country unveiled visa restrictions on any Bangladeshi undermining elections. [Extracted from the article]

There's the India with our roots, our heritage, our history, but there's also a new and young India that's emerging." Now, with the recognition of more diverse content, Padukone says India itself is beginning to realize that its movies are not just limited to Hindi films. DEEPIKA PADUKONE NEVER SET OUT to take India to the world. It's fitting that Padukone's photo shoot for this story is happening inside Mehboob Studios, home to some of the most legendary movies made in Hindi-language cinema, from the seminal Oscar-nominated Mother India in 1957 to Padukone's own Chennai Express in 2013. [Extracted from the article]

MASIH Alinejad A VOICE FOR IRANIANS BY ASTHA RAJVANSHI IT'S BEEN 13 YEARS SINCE MASIH ALINEJAD hugged her mother. "All people have the ability to be both powerful and fragile", Brunson says. For her role in Todd Field's Tár as a top-class composer and conductor who negotiates the world on her own terms, Blanchett has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress (her seventh nomination, and if she wins, her third Oscar). Women of the Year 2023 CATE Blanchett EMBODYING COMPLEXITY BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK WHEN CATE BLANCHETT WAS AROUND 5, she wrote a miniessay - saved for years by her mother and unearthed serendipitously during a recent move - envisioning her possible future as an adult: "When I grow up, I would like to be a man. [Extracted from the article]

Anil Kapoor, a famous Indian actor, recently won a landmark victory in a New Delhi high court over the unauthorized use of his likeness in AI-generated content. Kapoor took up the case after distorted videos and images bearing his likeness began circulating online. This ruling comes as the Bollywood industry grapples with the misuse of AI, with other actors also facing similar issues. Kapoor's case has paved the way for another victory, as the Bombay High Court granted interim relief to singer Arijit Singh in a similar case. [Extracted from the article]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite international condemnations of Russia's actions in Ukraine. Modi's visit aimed to strengthen strategic and economic ties between the two countries and reduce Russia's dependence on China. India, which has refused to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, relies heavily on Russia for military equipment and has a significant trade relationship with the country. The visit highlights India's non-Western worldview and its reluctance to join a coalition against Russia's actions in Ukraine. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the extravagant wedding of Anant Ambani, the son of Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries and Asia's richest man. The wedding, which lasted for seven months, culminated in a three-day celebration in Mumbai. The event was attended by numerous celebrities and global power players, including Kim Kardashian, John Cena, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Nick Jonas. The estimated cost of the wedding was nearly $600 million. While some view the opulence as a symbol of India's rising global power, others see it as a stark reminder of the country's income inequality. [Extracted from the article]

India's recent election resulted in Prime Minister Narendra Modi securing a rare third term, but his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) did not win a majority in Parliament. Instead, a coalition of nearly 20 opposition parties claimed 232 seats, while the BJP won 240 seats. This means that the BJP will have to rely on smaller parties in its National Democratic Alliance to form a government. The election reflects voter dissatisfaction with the current state of the country, including economic distress and high unemployment. [Extracted from the article]

More petitions followed in 2017, including one by the All India Democratic Women's Association, which Nundy is representing in court, along with three individuals, including a survivor of marital rape. After the Nirbhaya case in 2012, a government- appointed committee made a set of recommendations, including the criminalizing of marital rape, to reform laws to prosecute rape. IN 2017, KARUNA NUNDY WROTE AN OPEN LETTER TO INDIAN WOMEN, LAYING out the protections in the country's constitution if they are raped, assaulted, seeking an abortion, or demanding fair treatment from an employer. At the age of 15, Nundy was stalked by a classmate in school and received rape threats. [Extracted from the article]

In 2024, over half of the world's population will participate in elections across approximately 65 countries. However, concerns are growing about the state of democracy worldwide. Many countries with global influence are seeing a shrinking space for political competition and civil society, as well as crackdowns on opponents and erosion of democratic institutions. The Democracy Index reveals that 28 out of 43 countries expected to hold free and fair elections do not meet the essential conditions for democracy. Populist leaders, hyperpolarization, and the spread of mis- and disinformation pose additional challenges to democratic norms. The outcomes of these elections will have a significant impact on the world, especially in the context of bloc rivalry, right-wing nationalism, and ongoing conflicts. [Extracted from the article]

India's upcoming election is set to be the largest democratic exercise in the world, with nearly 970 million registered voters. The Election Commission of India has announced that the election will take place in seven phases over a period of 44 days, from April 19 to June 1, with results declared on June 4. The election will be broken down by phase and region in order to ensure an orderly process. However, concerns have been raised about the state of democracy in India, with the government facing criticism for discriminatory policies and targeting of critics and the media. [Extracted from the article]

Nadia Murad, a survivor of the Islamic State's invasion of her village in northern Iraq, has dedicated her life to advocating for survivors of genocide and sexual violence. As the president and chairwoman of the nonprofit Nadia's Initiative, she lobbies governments and international organizations for policy reform and resources for community rebuilding. Her efforts have gained global recognition, including a New York Times best-selling memoir and the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. Murad is also leading a lawsuit against Lafarge, a French cement conglomerate, on behalf of Yazidi Americans, alleging support for ISIS. Despite the trauma she has endured, Murad remains hopeful and is set to graduate from college this year with a sociology degree. [Extracted from the article]

Hinton, 76, has spent his career trying to build AI systems that model the human brain, mostly in academia before joining Google in 2013. The neural networks that Hinton was instrumental in developing and popularizing are now the dominant AI-development paradigm, one that has allowed huge amounts of data to be ingested and processed, leading to advances in image recognition, language understanding, and self-driving cars. Time 100/AI Thinkers Over the course of February, Geoffrey Hinton, one of the most influential AI researchers of the past 50 years, had a "slow eureka moment.". [Extracted from the article]

Time 100/AI Innovators Pelonomi Moiloa didn't originally intend to work in AI. Lilly Wachowski FILMMAKER In 1999, Wachowski and her sister Lana co-created The Matrix, which warned of an AI dystopia that had an outsize effect on AI philosophers and researchers. Rootport AUTHOR OF JAPANESE MANGA Despite a lack of drawing skills, the 37-year-old Tokyo-based writer got the world's first fully AI-illustrated manga published earlier this year - with text-to-image generative AI as his digital art partner. [Extracted from the article]

Time 100/AI Innovators Ted Chiang is perhaps the world's most celebrated living science-fiction author. "But I don't want to say science fiction should have any other priorities beyond being good art." Chiang also balks at the suggestion that deflating the unlikely tales spun by technologists gives him "any kind of moral authority." Like many science-fiction authors, Chiang has written in his short stories about artificial beings with conscious inner worlds. [Extracted from the article]

Dan Hendrycks EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR AI SAFETY Alongside his work at CAIS, Hendrycks advises Elon Musk's new AI venture, xAI, on safety. Margrethe Vestager EVP, EUROPEAN COMMISSION The Danish politician has spent the past two years spearheading the E.U.'s Artificial Intelligence Act, which stands to become the world's first comprehensive AI law. Verity Harding DIRECTOR OF THE AI AND GEOPOLITICS PROJECT, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY The British politico turned AI expert is leading a campaign to pursue a "rights-based" approach to AI governance that includes not just the people building AI, but also those who stand to be most impacted by it. [Extracted from the article]

Marc Andreessen ENTREPRENEUR AND INVESTOR Through his fund Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley billionaire has invested hundreds of millions into AI firms like OpenAI and Character.AI. Sam Altman CEO, OPENAI Altman's decision to gradually release OpenAI's cutting-edge AI tools, including ChatGPT, has reshaped the world of tech and rocketed AI policy up the political agenda. Time 100/AI Leaders Greg Brockman spends around 80% of his working hours coding. [Extracted from the article]

Dario, 40, and Daniela, 36 - CEO and president, respectively - believe they are taking a safer and more responsible approach to AI alignment than other companies building cutting-edge AI systems. Anthropic's leaders are notably less outspoken than other AI luminaries about the potential benefits that AI could bring to humanity's future. Time 100/AI Leaders As siblings go, Dario and Daniela Amodei agree more than most. [Extracted from the article]

Tens of thousands of farmers in Europe have been protesting against poor economic conditions, including falling incomes, high costs, disruption from the war in Ukraine, and competition from cheap imports. Their discontent has been further fueled by the European Union's announcement of more stringent environmental policies for agriculture, which they believe will worsen their situation. The proposed green policies aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the farming sector, but many farmers feel that they are being asked to farm sustainably while also producing cheaply, which they find impossible. Some leaders are calling for the rules to be loosened in response to the protests, and several governments have announced aid packages for farmers in need. [Extracted from the article]

Rathee's work is incredibly popular - he's amassed nearly 13 million subscribers, making his YouTube channel one of the most-viewed in the country. Next Generation Leaders India Dhruv Rathee discovered YouTube in 2014, a time when cheap smartphones and cellular data led to a boom in internet access in India. When a controversial Hindi film called The Kerala Story began making waves in May, Rathee made a 23-minute video in which he argued that the film pushed a Hindu-nationalist government narrative by falsely promoting an Islamophobic conspiracy theory. [Extracted from the article]

Time 100/AI Thinkers In early August, some 4,000 hackers gathered in Las Vegas. Until Elon Musk fired her, she was the head of Twitter's machine-learning ethics team, where she led research that found the company's AI disproportionately boosted right-wing news sources during the 2020 U.S. elections. Chowdhury knows the dangers of AI better than most. [Extracted from the article]

Paul Christiano FOUNDER, ALIGNMENT RESEARCH CENTER Christiano, who researches ways to ensure AI systems don't go rogue, left OpenAI to found an organization that tests whether AI systems are really ready for the public. Time 100/AI Thinkers In the first class of the introductory AI course that Yi Zeng took as a sophomore in Beijing, the professor screened Steven Spielberg's 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor PROFESSOR AND PH.D. CANDIDATE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY On their blog AI Snake Oil, the two specialize in pouring cold water on AI hype. [Extracted from the article]

Raji, 27, was helping the startup train a content-moderation model intended to filter out explicit images, but noticed that the model was disproportionately flagging nonexplicit content containing people of color. So Raji shifted her focus toward research, and how AI companies could ensure that their models do not cause undue harm - especially among populations that are likely to be overlooked during the development process. Time 100/AI Thinkers In 2017, while interning at the machine-learning company Clarifai, Inioluwa Deborah Raji had an alarming realization. [Extracted from the article]

These days, LeCun, now the chief AI scientist at Meta and a computer-science professor at NYU, is still offering bold, controversial proclamations - and sparring with everyone and anyone he disagrees with. Time 100/AI Thinkers Yann LeCun has long marched to the beat of his own drum. For instance, LeCun believes the current craze around large language models (LLM) - including ChatGPT - is a misdirected fad that will soon hit a dead end. [Extracted from the article]

Kohli, who grew up in Dehradun, India, spent nearly 11 years at Microsoft before joining DeepMind in 2017. It's a fitting temperament for the man leading both Google DeepMind's AI for Science project, which uses AI to solve scientific grand challenges, and its Responsible and Reliable AI team, which makes sure DeepMind's AI systems don't go off the rails. Time 100/AI Thinkers Pushmeet Kohli describes himself as cautiously optimistic. [Extracted from the article]

Before joining OpenAI as a founding member in 2015, Sutskever was already famous for breakthroughs that turbocharged the fields of computer vision and machine translation. In July, OpenAI announced that Sutskever, 37, would be the co-lead of its new Superalignment team, which aims to solve the technical challenge of how to ensure that superintelligent AI acts in the interests of humanity. Time 100/AI Thinkers There is a precedent, according to Ilya Sutskever, for a less intelligent being ensuring that radically smarter and more powerful ones act in their interests. [Extracted from the article]

At Microsoft Research, the big tech company's R&D subsidiary, Bali is working to ensure that the AI boom is inclusive of marginalized languages. "I think there should be a world where language is no longer a barrier to technology", Bali says. Time 100/AI Thinkers When Kalika Bali told fellow technologists 25 years ago that she wanted to work with the world's most marginalized languages, they attempted to dissuade her by telling her she would only be marginalizing herself. [Extracted from the article]

The only way that AI systems work, Crawford says, "is by extracting vast amounts of data, human labor, and natural resources, which includes energy, water, and minerals." For the past 20 years, Crawford has studied the impact that large-scale data systems have had on the environment, and how they are impacting our social and political systems. Time 100/AI Thinkers AI is not some abstract, futurist thought experiment for the scholar Kate Crawford: it's a series of cold, physical truths. [Extracted from the article]

Refiberd is using AI to change that thanks in part to chief technology officer Tushita Gupta's innovative work. Time 100/AI Innovators From shirts to socks, the amount of textiles thrown out in the U.S. has almost doubled in recent years, from nearly 9,500 tons in 2000 to just over 17,000 tons in 2018, according to the latest government data. Refiberd's AI technology identifies "the material composition of the textile no matter what blend, or how many fibers are in it", says Gupta. [Extracted from the article]

Time 100/AI Innovators Black Mirror is perhaps the defining piece of pop culture about 21st century technology. For more than a decade, Brooker has used his Channel 4 - Netflix anthology television show to explore the potentially dystopian results produced when our quests for technology advancement are taken to their logical, sometimes violent ends. And artificial intelligence is one of the utmost subjects of Brooker's imagination. [Extracted from the article]

Time 100/AI Innovators The singer-songwriter Holly Herndon cannot sing in Spanish or Arabic, or sing any song you want on demand. Herndon has also led the way in carving out protections for artists. The Berlin-based Herndon, 43, hopes Holly+ will spur her fellow artists to reckon with the implications of a technology that can mimic them - to reclaim agency over their careers and creative autonomy in a fraught new era. [Extracted from the article]

Sarah Silverman headlined a lawsuit against OpenAI for training AI models on her book without consent, credit, or compensation. So in January, McKernan joined a class-action lawsuit, along with the artists Sarah Andersen and Karla Ortiz, against Midjourney, Stability AI, and DeviantArt. Time 100/AI Shapers Last year, the visual artist Kelly McKernan started seeing images on Twitter that seemed to be their artwork, but weren't. [Extracted from the article]

After Tabassi's team started doing research around AI security and bias, Congress mandated NIST (part of the Commerce Department) to develop a voluntary risk-management framework (RMF) for trustworthy AI systems as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021. "One of the important contributions of the AI RMF was that it provides a structure to the conversations about AI risk and AI risk management and provides a sort of interoperable lexicon to talk about it. Time 100/AI Shapers Nearly five years ago, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began building a program to advance the development of trustworthy and responsible AI systems. [Extracted from the article]

In June, the U.K. government announced it had appointed the 41-year-old Brit as the head of its new AI safety initiative, now known as the Frontier AI Taskforce. Hogarth's Taskforce aims to build capacity inside government to do the kinds of safety research currently possible only in industry. Time 100/AI Shapers As an investor, Ian Hogarth made his fortune betting on machine-learning companies. [Extracted from the article]

Nelson says that the upcoming 2024 elections in the U.S., E.U., U.K., South Africa, and beyond make AI regulation all the more urgent. She points to radiology, a field that AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton predicted in 2016 would be overtaken by AI within five years. Time 100/AI Shapers When the Biden White House was tasked with responding to the rapid changes in generative AI last year, Alondra Nelson led the charge. [Extracted from the article]

Baidu already has its own equivalent of Amazon's Alexa, dubbed Xiaodu, as well as fleets of driverless taxis, but the recent explosion in generative AI means it's now "a very exciting time", says Li. Time 100/AI Leaders As China's foremost futurist, Robin Li - who co-founded Baidu, China's most popular search engine, in 2000 - has been riding the AI wave for a long time. In July, Baidu was appointed a leader of the Chinese government's National Artificial Intelligence Standardization Group's LLM task force, whose mood recently has "morphed into a more build than regulate mindset", says Li. [Extracted from the article]

Urtasun herself also sets Waabi apart, since there's not exactly a surfeit of women in the world of AI, much less many women-led startups that have achieved such rapid success. Time 100/AI Leaders When it comes to technology trends, there are some counterintuitive upsides to getting in late, says Raquel Urtasun. But Urtasun says that starting late has allowed the company to take advantage of recent advances in AI: Waabi is able to train its driverless software much faster and more cheaply than its competitors in part by driving virtual trucks inside a highly realistic AI-generated simulation. [Extracted from the article]

And is this the right place?" Ibrahim, 53, describes DeepMind, which was acquired by Google in 2014 and merged with Google Brain in April, as a blend of startup, academic lab, and global tech behemoth. Time 100/AI Leaders In 2017, Lila Ibrahim spent more than 50 hours interviewing for her current role as chief operating officer at Google DeepMind. Years at Intel, VC firm Kleiner Perkins, and ed-tech startup Coursera were her foundation for managing DeepMind's day-to-day operations, and leading the company's responsibility and governance work. [Extracted from the article]

Karp, who co-founded Palantir in 2004 with his Stanford law-school classmate Peter Thiel, has long shrugged off criticism about potential privacy violations or government misuse of Palantir's technology. Time 100/AI Leaders For two decades, the brash CEO of Palantir has courted U.S. government agencies to win controversial contracts. But now, Karp, 55, believes that rising fears about China's AI ambitions and the role of major technology firms in the war in Ukraine are nudging the industry his way. [Extracted from the article]

Park workers point to Aasha, a Namibian female, who has so far survived and happily explored her new surroundings, as an example of "positive hope for the future of cheetahs in India." India Tried to Reintroduce Cheetahs - Then It All Went Wrong Last September, eight radio-collared cheetahs made the 5,000- mile-long journey from Namibia to Kuno National Park in India. [Extracted from the article]

The 33-year-old, who has a master's degree in structural engineering, ran as an independent and used TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram to harness voter anger over the status quo - sparking a "Balen effect" that saw as many as 385 independent candidates triumph over veteran politicians in last spring's local elections. Since coming into power, Shah has also signed agreements with officials to utilize landfill sites and announced plans to separate and dispose of nondegradable waste. TIME 100 NEXT Leaders When Balendra Shah emerged as the unlikely winner of Kathmandu's mayoral election in May 2022, his trademark square, black-and-gold sunglasses quickly began selling out in Nepal's capital. [Extracted from the article]

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