TIME magazine has announced its 2025 Person of the Year. The [annul / annual] award goes to a group of people: the "architects of AI". The [acolyte / accolade] is bestowed on "the person or persons who [most / must] affected the news and our lives, for good or [sick / ill] , and embodied what was important about the year, for better or [from / for] worse". Some of these architects appear [on / at] TIME's two cover photos. They include the CEOs of Google DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, and Tesla. TIME said the technology [magnates / magnets] brought about "one of the biggest physical infrastructure projects of [every / all] time." It described 2025 [as / was] the year that AI "[reared / roared] into view," showing its world-changing potential.
TIME's editor-in-chief, Sam Jacobs, commented [on / in] the decision to recognize the AI architects. He wrote: "It was hard to read or watch anything without [being / be] confronted with news about the rapid advancement [of / at] a technology and the people [driving / driven] it. Those stories unleashed [the / a] million debates about how disruptive AI would be for our lives. No business leader could talk about the future [with / without] invoking the impact of this technological revolution. No parent or teacher could ignore [what / how] their teenager or student was using it." He [also / addition] noted the "trade-offs" associated with AI. These included [fast / vast] energy requirements, job losses, the proliferation [of / to] misinformation, and cyberattacks.
