Christoph Niemann’s “New Horizons”

For the cover of the April 13, 2026, Future Issue, the artist Christoph Niemann depicted an army of machines filling the horizon, one of whom cradles a human in its hand; that person is happily reaching toward a screen. “A.I. seems to evoke doom,” Niemann said. “Not surprising since the dominant narrative has been that A.I. is mainly good money for investors and a good excuse to fire employees.”

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