Time magazine names ‘Architects of AI’ as its person of the year for 2025
Time recognized key AI leaders shaping society and economy as usage doubled to 10% globally in 2025, marking the shift of AI from promise to mainstream reality.
- 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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The AI bosses had "taken over the helm of history and developed technologies that fundamentally changed the information landscape and human livelihoods," said Time.
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This year, the distinction of the Year 2025 of the Magazine Times was awarded to a group of eight people with a pioneer role in technological enterprises and in the field of artificial intelligence.
Since 1927, the US-American Time magazine has named the person of the year. This year, an entire collective was selected: the "architects" of artificial intelligence, which showed its full potential in 2025.[more]]>
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