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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. ## Video: See Everyone on the TIME100 AI List [Watch (HLS stream): See Everyone on the TIME100 AI List](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/QiijrnNF.m3u8) (1:48)  _Published 2023-09-07. The TIME 2023 Time 100 AI list features innovators, thinkers, shapers and leaders who are making the future of AI._ Vice President of Research, Google DeepMind by [Will Henshall](https://time.com/author/will-henshall/) ## Will Henshall  Illustration by TIME; reference image courtesy of Pushmeet Kohli Pushmeet Kohli describes himself as, by nature, cautiously optimistic or optimistically cautious. 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. Kohli grew up in Dehradun, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas, and moved to the U.K. to study. He spent nearly 11 years at Microsoft, where he was ultimately director of research in its Cognition Group, which aimed to build AI systems that could carry out almost all of the types of tasks that humans can do. He joined DeepMind in 2017 and soon set up the Safe and Reliable AI team, which later changed its name. (DeepMind merged with a division of Google in April to become Google DeepMind.) Kohli says Shane Legg, co-founder and chief AGI, or artificial general intelligence, scientist at DeepMind, had been working on safety “from day zero,” but his team tries to address the “safety issues that come with deployment of ML \[machine learning\] models in the near term.” --- ### More from TIME --- Kohli refuses to pick a favorite between the two teams he leads, but his eyes light up when he discusses the work of AI for Science. [AlphaFold](https://www.deepmind.com/research/highlighted-research/alphafold), the team’s greatest success so far, has been used by [over 1 million](https://venturebeat.com/ai/a-year-ago-deepminds-alphafold-ai-changed-the-shape-of-science-but-there-is-more-work-to-do/) researchers, and can predict the structures of proteins from their amino-acid structure in seconds, a task that previously took months or years. Better understanding of protein structures will accelerate drug discovery and may pave the way for further scientific breakthroughs. More recently, Kohli’s AI for Science team announced [AlphaTensor](https://www.deepmind.com/blog/discovering-novel-algorithms-with-alphatensor), an AI system that builds on AlphaZero, which shows extraordinary performance across a range of games including [Go](https://time.com/4252312/googles-artificial-intelligence-beats-legendary-go-player/), and can discover novel algorithms. He thinks that AI, by improving our understanding of the world, will ultimately solve more problems than it creates. For instance, scientists have gone back and forth for years on issues as seemingly trivial as “whether wine is good for you or not,” Kohli says. He views the complex challenges he hopes AI will help address, such as climate change and pandemics, as analogous to the wine debate, “but at the planetary scale.” Pushmeet Kohli: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai/6308942/pushmeet-kohli/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai/6308942/pushmeet-kohli/"},"headline":"Pushmeet Kohli","datePublished":"2023-09-07T11:00:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:26:09.224Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai/6308942/pushmeet-kohli/","keywords":["sponsorshipblock","TIME100 AI","AI-Innovators2023"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb08c43bd1898692d/698a400d929fad0a51bfa1f2/Kohli.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Henshall","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/will-henshall/"}],"creator":"Will Henshall","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb08c43bd1898692d/698a400d929fad0a51bfa1f2/Kohli.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai/6308942/pushmeet-kohli/","name":"Pushmeet Kohli"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See Everyone on the TIME100 AI List","description":"The TIME 2023 Time 100 AI list features innovators, thinkers, shapers and leaders who are making the future of AI.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/QiijrnNF/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2023-09-07T10:45:00.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/QiijrnNF.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai/6308942/pushmeet-kohli/","duration":"PT1M48S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/time100-ai/6308942/pushmeet-kohli/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```