By Mike Catalini
Publication Date: 2025-12-11 19:48:00
The “Architects of AI” have been named TimeOn Thursday he was named Person of the Year, with the magazine calling 2025 the year in which the potential of artificial intelligence became “roaringly apparent” and there was no turning back.
“The architects of AI are responsible for ushering in the age of thinking machines, exciting and disturbing humanity, transforming the present and transcending the possible.” TIME“Person of the Year 2025” Time said in a social media post.
The magazine deliberately chose people – the “people who invented, designed and built AI” – rather than the technology itself, even though there would have been a precedent for this.
“We named not just individuals but also groups, more women than our founders could have imagined (though still not enough), and, in rare cases, a concept: the endangered Earth in 1988 or the personal computer in 1982,” wrote editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs in an explanation of the choice. “The drama surrounding the selection of…