Edward Felsenthal

Executive Chairman and Contributing Editor at TIME

Exec Chair and former EIC and CEO @TIME. Senior Advisor @Salesforce. Board @Princeton @DailyMemphian

Articles

CFR President Michael Froman on Trump, Global ‘Polyamory’ and AI

Mar 16, 2025 | time.com | Edward Felsenthal

What’s the role of America’s most influential foreign-policy institution at a moment when the rules of U.S. engagement in the world are being completely rewritten? When I saw Michael Froman, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, in the first few days of the Trump Administration, he was already describing the current geopolitical moment as the most complex in 80 years.
Nicholas Kristof on the Times and Why He No Longer Sees Himself as a Progressive

May 12, 2024 | time.com | Edward Felsenthal

May 12, 2024 7:00 AM EDTThroughout his new memoir, Nicholas Kristof escapes plane crashes, dodges warlords and debates whether to let his family know he’s in danger in the moment or later. He also, not for nothing, survives and thrives as a globe-trotting newspaper writer during a period in which the shape-shifting economics of journalism have left that kind of career vanishingly rare.
An Expert on Trust Says We're Thinking About It All Wrong

Mar 17, 2024 | time.com | Edward Felsenthal

March 17, 2024 7:00 AM EDTIt’s always tempting for journalists to search for threads that connect disparate news stories, and easy to overstate their significance. But it’s remarkable how much one such thread—declining trust in the institutions that once dominated public life—ties together so many of today’s major headlines, from our deeply polarized politics to the proliferation of crazy conspiracy theories.
Accenture's Chief AI Officer on Why This Is a Defining Moment

Nov 26, 2023 | time.com | Edward Felsenthal

November 26, 2023 7:00 AM ESTA year ago this week, artificial intelligence vaulted into public consciousness with the release of OpenAI’s instantly viral consumer-facing, conversational interface. AI became one of the biggest stories of 2023. And businesses everywhere (including OpenAI itself, as reflected in its leadership pandemonium earlier this month) are struggling to navigate the potential benefits and risks of the extraordinary technology.
The Rockefeller Foundation's Rajiv Shah on How to Tackle the World's Biggest Challenges

Oct 15, 2023 | mercedsunstar.com | Edward Felsenthal
Rajiv Shah on How to Tackle the World's Biggest Challenges

Oct 15, 2023 | time.com | Edward Felsenthal

October 15, 2023 7:00 AM EDT(To receive weekly emails of conversations with the world’s top CEOs and decisionmakers, click here.)There’s an endearing scene early in Rajiv Shah’s new book, Big Bets. It’s 2010, and he has just been sworn in, at age 36, as head of the multi-billion-dollar U.S. agency that oversees humanitarian and development aid around the world. Hours later, the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti occurs.
Paul Hollywood Answers Your Questions About 'The Great British Baking Show'

Sep 19, 2023 | time.com | Edward Felsenthal

During the pandemic, The Great British Baking Show became in millions of homes, including mine, literal and figurative comfort food. Its contestants—gathered under a (literal and figurative) big tent—are eliminated one by one, week by week, in as genial and good-natured a format as exists anywhere on television. As my colleague TIME TV critic Judy Berman has written, binging old seasons of the show “practically qualified as therapy” during lockdown.
Disrupters - TIME | Scribd

Jun 23, 2023 | scribd.com | Edward Felsenthal |Billy Perrigo

DISRUPTERSOpenAICEO Sam Altman is pushing past doubt, into the futureBY EDWARD FELSENTHAL / SAN FRANCISCO AND BILLY PERRIGO / LONDONYou ever watch ?” Sam Altman, the CEO who has become the most visible face of the current artificial-intelligence boom, has just called us an Uber. The 38-year-old serial entrepreneur has lately become known for talking up the risks of AI, but he is at his most animated in talking about its possibilities.
Disrupters - TIME | Scribd

Jun 22, 2023 | scribd.com | Edward Felsenthal |Billy Perrigo
Read TIME's Interview With OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

Jun 21, 2023 | msn.com | Edward Felsenthal

For this week’s TIME100 Most Influential Companies cover story about OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, TIME’s former editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal sat down with a number of company executives in early May, including two sessions with Altman, transcribed below. The conversations have been condensed and edited for clarity. Edward Felsenthal: What are you using ChatGPT for in your daily life? Sam Altman: One thing I use it for every day is help with summarization.