Time Magazine Selects 'Architects of AI' as 2025 Person of the Year
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| Credits: Reuters / TIME |
Time magazine announced the "Architects of AI" as its Person of the Year for 2025 on Thursday, highlighting a collective of technology leaders who advanced artificial intelligence.
The magazine’s editorial team stated on social media that the honorees were selected “For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible.”
The magazine released two covers for the issue, One of the published cover images features eight tech leaders seated atop a steel beam in a visual reference to the 1932 “Lunch Atop a Skyscraper” photograph, with the AI figures perched on a beam, and the other is an illustration by Peter Crowther showing the letters "AI" under construction surrounded by the group.
Those shown on Time's Architects of AI cover page include:
- Mark Zuckerberg of Meta,
- Jensen Huang of Nvidia,
- Elon Musk of xAI,
- Sam Altman of OpenAI,
- Lisa Su of AMD,
- Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind,
- Dario Amodei of Anthropic,
- Fei-Fei Li of Stanford University’s Human-Centered AI Institute.
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| Architects of AI illustration on Time Magazine cover 2025 |
The decision reflects 2025 as the point when AI shifted from debate to rapid deployment, with applications integrating into education, consumer tasks like holiday planning and recipe discovery, and major investments such as the Stargate Project involving OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, and Microsoft committing up to $500 billion for data centers.
OpenAI's ChatGPT alone reaches about 800 million users weekly, while Nvidia's chips fuel much of the AI infrastructure boom.
Time editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs said:
"This is the year we feel like the people who were designing, imagining and building artificial intelligence stopped debating about how to create this technology and started racing to deploy it, and there are enormous consequences for society."
