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11-02-2025
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Grimes Celebrates Trailblazers Creating ‘Magic' With AI
Grimes performs at the Sahara Stage at the 2024 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival on April 13, 2024. Credit - Matt Winkelmeyer—Getty Images Grimes Celebrates Trailblazers Creating 'Magic' With AI While much of the music industry has shied away from AI, Grimes has embraced it. In 2023, the musician and producer made headlines when she announced that she would allow fans to simulate her voice using AI to create new music—and promised to split royalties with those who did. On Monday, TIME recognized Grimes and three others leaders shaping the future of AI at the TIME100 AI Impact Awards in Dubai. Others who joined Grimes in receiving recognition for their work in the space included California Institute of Technology professor Anima Anandkumar, visual artist Refik Anadol, and Arvind Krishna, the CEO, chairman, and president of IBM. The evening also featured a performance by Emirati soul singer Arqam Al Abri. In her speech accepting the award, Grimes began by referencing a famous quote from Arthur C. Clarke in which the science fiction writer observes that advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. She then used the on-stage moment as an opportunity to celebrate other notable innovators she found deserving of recognition, saying: 'I wanted to shout out some of my favorite real-life wizards and some real-life magic that exists now.' To her list of such magicians, Grimes named David Holz, the founder of Midjourney, a generative AI tool that creates images inspired by users' prompts; Aza Raskin, a technologist who is decoding the language of whales with the help of AI; and Sam Zeloof, an entrepreneur known for getting his start by building silicon chips in his parents' garage. Grimes also highlighted singer-songwriter Holly Herndon, who created a website which allows users to detect if an artist's work has been used in AI models, as well as a tool that allows artists to easily opt out of training datasets. 'This one is particularly poetic to me because I think everyone is panicking over this issue,' Grimes noted. 'The world is so focused on what's negative that we don't realize there's magic solutions right in front of our very eyes.' 'Tech has a bad habit of not canonizing its heroes and, as of late, the world has a bad habit of not celebrating its wins,' she said. 'There are a lot of people trying to save the world right now, and I believe they are succeeding.' The TIME100 AI Impact Awards Dubai was presented by the World Government Summit and the Museum of the Future. Write to Simmone Shah at
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11-02-2025
- Business
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Arvind Krishna Celebrates the Work of a Pioneer
Arvind Krishna, chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), in San Francisco, July 13, 2022. Credit - David Paul Morris—Bloomberg/Getty Images Arvind Krishna, CEO, chairman and president of IBM, used his acceptance speech at the TIME100 AI Impact Awards on Monday to acknowledge pioneering computer scientist and mathematician Claude Shannon, calling him one of the 'unsung heroes of today.' Krishna, who accepted his award at a ceremony in Dubai alongside musician Grimes, California Institute of Technology professor Anima Anandkumar, and artist Refik Anadol, said of Shannon, 'He would come up with the ways that you can convey information, all of which has stood the test until today.' In 1948, Shannon—now known as the father of the information age—published 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication,' a transformative paper that, by proposing a simplified way of quantifying information via bits, would go on to fundamentally shape the development of information technology—and thus, our modern era. In his speech, Krishna also pointed to Shannon's work building robotic mice that solved mazes as an example of his enjoyment of play within his research. Krishna, of course, has some familiarity with what it takes to be at the cutting edge. Under his leadership, IBM, known as a pioneer in artificial intelligence itself, is carving its own niche in specialized AI and invests heavily in quantum computing research—the mission to build a machine based on quantum principles, which could carry out calculations much faster than existing computers. The business also runs a cloud computing service, designs software, and operates a consulting business. Krishna said that he most enjoyed Shannon's work because the researcher's 'simple insights' have helped contribute to the 'most sophisticated communication systems' of today, including satellites. Speaking about Shannon's theoretical work, which Krishna said was a precursor to neural networks, he noted, 'I think we can give him credit for building the first elements of artificial intelligence.' The TIME100 AI Impact Awards Dubai was presented by the World Government Summit and the Museum of the Future. Write to Ayesha Javed at
