TIME magazine has announced its 2025 Person of the Year. It goes to a group of people: the "architects of AI". The award is given to "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year". Some of the architects appear on TIME's cover. They include the CEOs of the world's top tech companies. TIME said the CEOs brought about "one of the biggest physical infrastructure projects of all time." It described 2025 as the year that AI "roared into view," showing its potential to change the world.

TIME's editor commented on giving the prize to the AI architects. He wrote that it was hard to watch anything without seeing or hearing news about the "rapid advancement of a technology and the people driving it". He said there have been "a million debates about how disruptive AI would be". He added that no business leader, student, or parent "could talk about the future without invoking the impact of this technological revolution". However, he also noted the negatives of AI. These include vast energy requirements, job losses, misinformation, and cyberattacks.