Members of a diverse and quietly powerful clan are competing to make over entertainment in their image. Who will prevail?

Most of Hollywood has long-established groups of power players — you know who’s calling the shots because they’ve called them so many times before.

Not so for Hollywood and AI. The latest tech is a Wild West — a wide-open space practically inviting new personalities to come in and conquer.

And conquer they have. A burgeoning group of figures — from tech execs to established filmmakers, activists to entrepreneurs — have flooded these vast plains hoping to dominate and make future-Hollywood look the way they think it should (and make lots of entertainment and, sometimes, money in the process).

With this in mind, THR devised the AI 25 — a list of the most powerful people in this burgeoning area of Hollywood AI as it stands at this very moment. As you’ll see from the alphabetical list below, they come from wildly different backgrounds and often have extremely diverse agendas. But each of them has a vision for what Hollywood in the AI Age should look like — and the leverage to make that vision happen.

The Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/most-powerful-people-ai-2026/