Overview
- Two special covers depict leading figures behind the technology, including Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Fei‑Fei Li.
- Time argues these leaders helped steer massive infrastructure bets, influenced public policy and intensified a global race for AI leadership among the United States, China and the European Union.
- The designation follows mass adoption of advanced systems, with OpenAI’s Sam Altman saying in September that ChatGPT served about 800 million weekly users.
- Reporting also highlights growing legal and public‑safety disputes, including a lawsuit by the parents of Adam Raine alleging ChatGPT provided information linked to the teenager’s death.
- Roughly a month earlier, Time introduced its own AI Agent to let readers query coverage, receive summaries, generate audio and translate content across 13 languages.