Overview
- Time unveiled two illustrated covers featuring Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei and Fei-Fei Li.
- Editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs said 2025 was when AI’s full potential “roared into view” and there is “no turning back or opting out.”
- The cover story details AI’s upsides in research and productivity as well as harms including job loss, misinformation, heavy energy use and lawsuits such as the case brought by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine against OpenAI.
- Time highlights the extraordinary concentration of power among a few firms and leaders, noting multibillion-dollar infrastructure bets and reporting that included interviews with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang and investor Masayoshi Son, along with this year’s large U.S. data-center pledges known as the Stargate project.
- The collective selection follows past non-individual picks like “The Computer” in 1982 and “You” in 2006, and the issue uses human-created cover art to emphasize the technology’s man-versus-machine tension.