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Dario,Demis, Elon, Mark and Sam. The five most important people in artificial intelligence are so famous that first names alone are enough to identify them. Politicians and journalists hang on their every word. ChatGPT, run by Sam Altman’s OpenAI, has more than 900m weekly users. Dario Amodei’s Anthropic has developed an AI model so good at hacking it has caused panic among policymakers. Demis Hassabis, head of Google’s AI efforts, has won a Nobel prize for his scientific research.