"Although it online before the announcement, Time magazine made its 2025 Person of the Year on Thursday morning: It's the "architects of AI.""
"Time magazine's official cover(s) for the 2025 Person of the Year edition include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and the "godmother of AI" Fei-Fei Li. However, Time's accolade arrives as Generative AI faces increasing blowback over concerns about privacy and inaccuracies, its environmental impact, mass production of slop, and copyright issues."
"Those anti-AI feelings appear to be spilling over into Time's 2025 Person of the Year announcement as well. On X, users about AI training off of intellectual property it may not have consent to use. Others how Time was celebrating the CEOs of tech companies rather than the "engineers and researchers who actually build AI." Some X users on Time's of a cover for the Person of the Year issue, which recreates the infamous "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" photo from 1932, replacing the iron workers sitting on a steel beam with tech CEOs."
Time named a group of tech leaders the 2025 Person of the Year, branding them the "architects of AI" and featuring executives including Mark Zuckerberg, Lisa Su, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Fei-Fei Li. The selection provoked criticism tied to generative AI concerns: privacy and accuracy problems, environmental costs, mass production of low-quality content, and copyright disputes. Corporations that published AI-generated holiday commercials retracted them after consumer backlash. Social-media users questioned celebrating CEOs over engineers and objected to training on unconsented intellectual property. The cover's recreation of "Lunch atop a Skyscraper" with tech CEOs intensified the controversy.
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