Some of the highly influential papers in the field of AI that could have been on the list include "Generative Adversarial Networks" by Ian Goodfellow et al., "Attention is All You Need" by Vaswani et al., "AlexNet: ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks" by Alex Krizhevsky et al., "Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning" by Volodymyr Mnih et al., "Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning" by Volodymyr Mnih et al., "A Few Useful Things to Know About Machine Learning" by Pedro Domingos, among many others.