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Time magazine is Named 2025 “Person of the Year” As the “architect of AI”.
“2025 was the year when the full potential of artificial intelligence was revealed, and when it became clear that there would be no turning back,” Time Wrote in its announcement. “To bring about the era of thinking machines, to surprise and alarm humanity, to transform the present and surpass the possible, is the architect of AI Time2025 Person of the Year.”
Time Since 1927 it has named the “Person of the Year” who, according to its editors, has made the most headlines in the past 12 months.
However, selections are often not without controversy. In 1938, Adolf Hitler was named the magazine’s Person of the Year. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini was named on the cover in 1979.
The magazine said it this year deliberately chose people rather than technology or “the individuals who imagine, design and build AI”.
“We have named not only individuals but also groups, as many women as 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,” Sam Jacobs, TimeThe editor-in-chief wrote explaining the alternative. “The drama surrounding Apple’s choice of PC to replace Steve Jobs later became the subject of books and films.”
One of the cover images mimics the iconic “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photo of the 1930s, showing eight tech leaders sitting across the beam.
The second cover image shared by Time shows scaffolding around giant letters reading “AI.”
The cover story notes 2025 paved the way for “acrimonious debate about how to use AI responsibly” before tech giants gave way to “a sprint to deploy it as quickly as possible.”
“Every industry needs it, every company uses it, and every country needs to build it,” said Jensen Huang, Nvidia president and CEO. Time.
According to prediction markets, AI was the top contender for this prestigious honor. Nvidia’s tech CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman were also considered popular choices, as well as President Donald Trump, Pope Leo XIV and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Trump was was named 2024 Person of the Year After winning his second term in the White House.