TIME magazine has announced its 2025 Person the Year. The annual award goes to a group people: the "architects of AI". The accolade is bestowed "the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, good or ill, and embodied what was important the year, for better or for worse". Some the architects appear on TIME's two cover photos. They include the CEOs Google DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Tesla. TIME said the technology magnates brought "one of the biggest physical infrastructure projects all time." It described 2025 as the year that AI "roared view," showing its world-changing potential.
TIME's editor--chief, Sam Jacobs, commented the decision to recognize the AI architects. He wrote: "It was hard to read or watch anything being confronted with news about the rapid advancement a technology and the people driving it. Those stories unleashed a million debates how disruptive AI would be our lives. No business leader could talk about the future invoking the impact this technological revolution. No parent or teacher could ignore how their teenager or student was using it." He also noted the "trade-offs" associated AI. These included vast energy requirements, job losses, the proliferation misinformation, and cyberattacks.
