Overview
- Time’s cover groups eight figures under the title “The Architects of AI”: Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Fei-Fei Li.
- Jimmy Kimmel mocked the selection on his show, deriding the lineup as “the eight dorks of the apocalypse” and ripping the cover design as looking like “Photoshop from 2007.”
- The cover is a Jason Seiler digital painting intended as an homage to the 1932 photograph of workers on a beam above New York’s RCA building.
- Time’s editors say the choice reflects AI’s rapid advances and pervasive impact, citing breakthroughs in research, productivity gains, and constant public debate about the technology.
- Opinion writers called the move underwhelming and symbolic rather than singular, noting the rollout coincided with reports of AI-linked stock declines and fresh talk of a valuation bubble.