Time Names Architects of AI Person of Year 2025

Time magazine has named "The Architects of AI" as its Person of the Year for 2025, recognizing the individuals who have driven the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence into a transformative force in daily life. The announcement, made on Thursday from New York, highlights 2025 as the pivotal year when AI's potential became irreversible, ushering in an era of thinking machines that both captivate and concern humanity.

The selection emphasizes the people behind the technology: those who imagined, designed and built AI systems now reshaping industries, economies and societies. Rather than honoring the technology itself, Time focused on key figures whose innovations have propelled AI from experimental tools to mainstream essentials. One cover image evokes the iconic 1930s "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photograph, depicting eight prominent leaders perched on a steel beam: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, who founded World Labs last year. A second cover features towering letters spelling "AI," constructed from...