US EditionTime magazine names ‘Architects of AI’ as its person of the year for 2025
Time named AI's top innovators as 2025 Person of the Year, highlighting AI's rapid impact amid mixed public opinions and 45% viewing AI as both threat and aid.
- On December 11, 2025, Time magazine named the `Architects of AI` its Person of the Year, selecting a group rather than an individual, with the issue now live on Time.com.
- Forrester analyst Thomas Husson argued 2025 marked a tipping point as AI moved into mainstream use, with ChatGPT usage more than doubled to 10, and Sam Jacobs wrote it was `the year when artificial intelligence's full potential roared into view`.
- Two illustrated covers depict AI builders like Jensen Huang, Nvidia, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, and Elon Musk, xAI/Tesla, created by Jason Seiler, digital painter, and Peter Crowther, illustrator and graphics animator.
- TIME noted that these leaders reshaped government policy, altered geopolitical rivalries, and accelerated AI adoption, while highlighting tensions over concentrated power among tech executives and concerns from workers and consumers.
- Physical copies will appear on Dec. 19, images leaked on Polymarket Wednesday, and Thomas Husson said next year promises more personal, embedded AI.
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Time magazine selects 'Architects of AI' as its 2025 person of the year
On Thursday, TIME magazine named the "Architects of AI" as its 2025 Person of the Year, asserting that the year marked a turning point when the potential of artificial intelligence “roared into view” with irreversible consequences. “For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year,” the magazine announ…
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