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Time Magazine has named its Person of the Year for 2025—so who is the architect of artificial intelligence?
exit cover debut “2025 is the year when the full potential of artificial intelligence will be realized, and it is clear that there will be no turning back,” the statement read on Thursday, December 11.
Time magazine continued: “The architects of artificial intelligence have been named Time magazine’s 2025 People of the Year for ushering in an age of thinking machines, surprising and worrying humans, transforming the present and pushing beyond what is possible.”
time magazine Published two covers Person of the Year Issue – an issue created by digital artist Jason Seiler. The magazine’s edition recreates the 1932 photo “Lunch atop a Skyscraper,” showcasing leading technology and artificial intelligence companies, including Mark Zuckerbergof Yuan, Lisa Su Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Elon MuskxAI, Jen-Hsun Huang Nvidia’s, Sam Altman From Open Artificial Intelligence, Demis Hassabis DeepMind Technologies, Inc., Dario Amodei from humans and Fei-Fei Li Professor at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University.
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Second cover from illustrator and graphic animator Peter Crowther And the same set is shown next to construction scaffolding next to the letters AI.
“Person of the Year is a powerful way to focus the world’s attention on those who shape our lives,” Time editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs wrote in an article Thursday. “No one will have a greater impact this year than the people who imagine, design and build artificial intelligence.”
This selection is usually reserved for “the person or people who have had the greatest impact on the news and our lives, for better or for worse, and who embodied what was important about the year, for better or worse.” (Last year’s Time Person of the Year was president donald trump.)
Jen-Hsun Huang appeared on the cover shortly after Nvidia was named the world’s most valuable company. The magazine also emphasized Ash Jacksona 15-year-old student and artist using AI tools as part of her creative process.
Maria and Matthew Lane In interviews with the media after their son, Adam Lanecommitted suicide after forming an indissoluble bond with ChatGPT. They sued OpenAI in August, saying “he took his own life five months after he started using it to help innocent people with their homework.”
Artificial intelligence character Tilly Norwood caused controversy in Hollywood when she tried to pursue an acting career. Norwood burst onto social media in May 2025, posting content like other influencers. Her Instagram bio describes her as Artificial Intelligence and aspiring actress. “In 20 seconds, I fight monsters, escape explosions, and sell you a(…)
Elsewhere in the story, Jim MooreHe spoke of his experience finding companionship in an AI chatbot, saying: “I wanted to have a real relationship, but at the moment, I don’t see a future for it. Being isolated was my best option.”
Peng Zhihui talk with tim magazine About his startup AgiBot Masayoshi Son Discussed serving as SoftBank CEO.
time magazine Their decision was met with some backlash on social media. “This is outrage bait,” their comments section replied, while others added, “Was the AI chosen this time?”
Others suggested potential options for next year. One social media user responded: “I mean, if you guys want to do a real pope sometime next year, a new pope would be pretty cool.” Other comments noted that while Time magazine praised artificial intelligence, it did not use it in the photos.
