TIME magazine has its 2025 Person of the Year. The annual award goes to a group of people: the "architects of AI". The accolade bestowed on "the person or persons who most the news and our lives, for good or ill, and what was important about the year, for better or for worse". Some of the architects on TIME's two cover photos. They the CEOs of Google DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Tesla. TIME said the technology magnates about "one of the biggest physical infrastructure projects of all time." It 2025 as the year that AI " into view," its world-changing potential.
TIME's editor-in-chief, Sam Jacobs, on the decision to the AI architects. He wrote: "It was hard to read or watch anything without confronted with news about the rapid advancement of a technology and the people it. Those stories a million debates about how disruptive AI would be for our lives. No business leader could about the future without invoking the impact of this technological revolution. No parent or teacher could how their teenager or student was it." He also the "trade-offs" with AI. These included vast energy requirements, job losses, the proliferation of misinformation, and cyberattacks.
