Time magazine names ‘Architects of AI’ as its person of the year for 2025
The issue features a cover story exploring how AI has changed the world over the past year, in “sometimes frightening ways”.
Time magazine has named its Person of the Year as “the architects of AI”, citing 2025 as the year artificial intelligence “roared into view”.
The issue features a cover story exploring how AI has changed the world over the past year, in “sometimes frightening ways”.
It interviews chief executive Jensen Huang, widely dubbed the “godfather of AI”, and AI investors including SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son.
“For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are Time’s 2025 Person of the Year,” Time said in a social media post.
The magazine said it was deliberate in highlighting the people who “imagined, designed and built AI”, rather than the technology itself, pointing out precedent.
“We’ve named not just individuals but also groups, more women than our founders could have imagined (though still not enough), and, on rare occasions, a concept: the endangered Earth, in 1988, or the personal computer, in 1982,” wrote Sam Jacobs, the editor-in-chief.
“The drama surrounding the selection of the PC over Apple’s Steve Jobs later became the stuff of books and a movie.”
Donald Trump was named 2024 Person of the Year, after winning his second bid for the White House. Taylor Swift had the honour in 2023.
The Person of the Year dates back to 1927. Time magazine picks the person (or in this case people) it says most shaped headlines over the previous 12 months.
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