AI Magazine, published by BizClik, has named Daniel at number 25 on its Top 100 AI Leaders list for 2026.
The list ranks people across five categories: technology leaders scaling platforms and infrastructure, enterprise executives embedding AI into business strategy, researchers advancing foundational AI capabilities, ethics and policy leaders shaping governance, and entrepreneurs commercialising AI innovation.
This year's list included Nvidia's Jensen Huang at number 2, along with Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Mustafa Suleyman and Mark Zuckerberg.
Daniel is CEO and co-founder of Conscium and Chief AI Officer at WPP, a role he took on four years before ChatGPT launched. He also founded Satalia, the AI consultancy WPP acquired in 2021.
The placement follows a cover feature on Daniel in AI Magazine earlier this year, where he explained that his own estimate for the arrival of superintelligence has collapsed from forty years to something closer to a decade. In that interview he described most of today's AI agents as "a bit like deploying an army of intoxicated graduates across your organisation," and set out why Conscium is building neuromorphic computing systems alongside tools to verify whether AI agents are doing their jobs properly, and whether they might be conscious.
Conscium's work covers both of those questions: testing whether AI agents behave the way they're supposed to, and researching whether artificial consciousness is achievable and what it would mean if it arrived. Daniel's argument is that a conscious superintelligence, one that understands what suffering actually is, might treat humanity with more restraint than one that doesn't.
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Daniel is CEO and co-founder of Conscium and Chief AI Officer at WPP, a role he took on four years before ChatGPT launched. He also founded Satalia, the AI consultancy WPP acquired in 2021.
The placement follows a cover feature on Daniel in AI Magazine earlier this year, where he explained that his own estimate for the arrival of superintelligence has collapsed from forty years to something closer to a decade. In that interview he described most of today's AI agents as "a bit like deploying an army of intoxicated graduates across your organisation," and set out why Conscium is building neuromorphic computing systems alongside tools to verify whether AI agents are doing their jobs properly, and whether they might be conscious.
Conscium's work covers both of those questions: testing whether AI agents behave the way they're supposed to, and researching whether artificial consciousness is achievable and what it would mean if it arrived. Daniel's argument is that a conscious superintelligence, one that understands what suffering actually is, might treat humanity with more restraint than one that doesn't.
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