""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 wrote on Thursday. "We saw the way it can accelerate medical research, productivity, and make the impossible possible," it continued. While a highly anticipated announcement in US media circles, "Person of the Year" does not always mean the person or people in question have been a force for good."
"Dating back to 1927, the list also includes dictators like Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Indeed, the magazine noted many of the negative aspects of AI, including its extreme environmental impact and its use in replacing human labor and art. One of the cover images reimagines a famous photo of construction workers eating lunch on a half-built skyscraper. Instead pictured are Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang,"
TIME's 2025 Person of the Year recognizes the Architects of AI for driving the age of thinking machines and enabling breakthroughs across medicine, productivity, and previously impossible tasks. The designation acknowledges both benefits and harms, citing extreme environmental costs and uses that displace human labor and artistic creation. A reimagined cover places major tech executives and AI pioneers in an iconic construction-workers photograph, underscoring industry prominence. Bookmakers favored AI and its creators as leading contenders, while figures like Pope Leo XIV and New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani also received consideration.
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